Dorcas Cheng-Tozun is an award-winning writer, editor, speaker, and communications consultant with nearly twenty years of experience in the nonprofit and social enterprise fields.

Former U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith, the author of nine books including six poetry collections, is a professor of English and African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

Jacqueline Patterson, the founder and Executive Director of the Chisholm Legacy Project, a resource hub for Black and Brown climate justice leadership, is the nation's leading environmental and climate justice leader.

Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen is Executive Director of the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), which is the largest transgender organization in the nation that consistently tackles federal policy.

Gloria Ladson-Billings is Professor Emerita and formerly the Kellner Family Distinguished Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is also the author of six highly critical books.