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Moustafa Bayoumi

Journalist and Author of How Does it Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America

Dr. Jamal-Harrison Bryant

Founder and Pastor of The Empowerment Temple

June Cross

Documentary Filmmaker and Author of Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away

Zlata Filipovic

Author of the international bestseller, Zlata's Diary, a young girl’s account of the siege of Sarajevo

China Galland

A leading authority on the Black Madonna, and lecturer and teacher of religion, race, and reconciliation

Richard Glaubman

Renowned humanitarian and award-winning co-author of Life Is So Good

Hill Harper

Bestselling author of Letters to a Young Brother and CSI-NY star

Margaret Heffernan

Five-time CEO and Fast Company columnist

Jean Kwok

Author of Girl in Translation

Jacki Lyden

NPR Senior Correspondent

Nami Mun

Author of Miles From Nowhere

Bich Minh Nguyen

Author of Stealing Buddha's Dinner and Short Girls

Mirta Ojito

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of Finding Mañana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus

Ariel Sabar

Journalist and author of the award-winning My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for his Family's Past

Ali Sethi

Author of The Wish Maker

Elif Shafak

Award-winning, Best-selling, and Internationally Acclaimed Turkish Author

Sadia Shepard

Documentary filmmaker and author of The Girl from Foreign

Josh Sundquist

Motivational Speaker, Paralympic Ski Racer, and Bestselling Author of Just Don't Fall

Clara Villarosa

Author of Down to Business: The First 10 Steps to Entrepreneurship for Women and founder of the Hue-Man Bookstore

Thomas Chatterton Williams

Author of Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture