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Actress, Producer, Vocalist
Theater Director, University Professor
Fine Artist
Actor and Producer
Funder and Policymaker for the Arts
Artist, Designer, Entrepreneur
Visual Artist and GDS 8th Grade History Teacher
Community Builder, ElectrifyPDX and Orange Splot
Former Black Panther and DC Homelessness Czar
Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist
Executive Director & Founder, Family Justice Law Center
Global Head of Communications, Public Policy and Marketing, Bloomberg
Makeup Artist
Program Coordinator for Asia, Vital Voices
Director/Producer/
Owners of Triyo Fitness
Physician (Internal Medicine, Addiction Medicine, and Obesity Medicine) and Medical Director at mental health agencies
Director of Behavioral Health at the Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center
Otolaryngologist and Assistant Professor at University of Chicago Medicine
Musician and Educator
Educator
Nationally syndicated advice writers and novelists
Musician and prominent independent literary publisher
Author of NPR’s Best Books of 2018 and Oprah Magazine’s Best LGBTQ Books of 2020
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer
Award-winning author of Black Bottom Saints and The Wind Done Gone
Screenwriter, novelist, and psychotherapist
Novelist, journalist, and recipient of the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart
How Jake Blount Is Using the Banjo to Explore Black Roots Music
Byron Miller’s Race Against Time
Executive Director, Belize Foundation for Research and Environmental Education
Founder, Illumen Capital
Professional Cyclist, Wildlife Generation Pro Cycling
Assistant Editor, ESPN’s The Undefeated
Freelance Filmmaker, Photographer, and Director
Founder, Pink Mantaray
Founder and CEO, Hypesole
We See It All: Liberty and Justice in an Age of Perpetual Surveillance
Professor of Genetics and Principal Investigator, Harvard Medical School’s Reich Lab
NBC Developing Father-Daughter Murder Mystery Drama From ‘Blindspot’s Martin Gero & Alex Berger
Journalist Quits Kenosha Paper in Protest of Its Jacob Blake Rally Coverage
Splaining How Government Works to Young Voters
Leading the Way: Fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion in schools
As a Teenager, I Hated Johnny Carson. Then Came the Pandemic.
Breaking Down The Legacy Of Race In Traditional Music In America
Renaming the Washington Redskins
Anthony Fauci built a truce. Trump is destroying it.
Exclusive — Venture Fund for Women Raises More Than Expected
As 'I can't breathe' haunts America, Sekou Andrews' poem reflects cycle of injustice
Comedy via Zoom: It’s the Golden Age of Mugging
MGM Picks Up High-Concept Spec Script 'Lost Sun' (Exclusive)
My People Are Dying and It’s Not Just the Murders
Technology Reporter, CNN
Founder, huMAN Expressions & Co-founder, Breast Cancer Comfort Site
Broadway Actor
Principal, Environmental Charter School
U.S. Congressman, Maryland's 8th District
Staff Writer, The Marshall Project
Owner, Hills Kitchen
Director, Choreographer, Actor, Dancer & Playwright
Founder and Director, The Toa Nafasi Project
Professor of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego
Playwright & Television Writer
Conservation Scientist, The Nature Conservancy – Wyoming
Six-Time Grammy-Winning Nonprofit Record Label Founder
Actor
Deputy Director, Collective Action for Safe Spaces
Founding Student Coordinator, Tufts University Peace and Justice Society
Executive vice president and provost at The Ohio State University
Editor, Washingtonian Magazine
Founder and Executive Director, Jevaia Foundation
Founder, Vote Me Too
Founder and CEO of Illumix
Co-President and Head of Television, Westbrook Studios
Founding Partner, The CC Group at Morgan Stanley
Co-Founder, Latin American Society of Chagas
Senior Tech Investigations Editor, NBC News
Founder, Storyfarm
Founder/CEO, The League of Kitchens
Co-Founder, Ragged Wing Ensemble and The Flight Deck
Principal, Success Academy Charter Schools
Vice President, Live Wire Media Relations, LLC
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