Bernice King Speaking Fee: $30,000 to $50,000

Adjoa Asamoah

Political Strategist & Racial Equity Advocate | Leader in Grassroots Organizing | Keynote Speaker on Social Justice & Public Policy

Adjoa Asamoah is a renowned racial equity strategist, speaker, and advocate. A trusted voice in social justice, she has advised on policy for major U.S. political campaigns. Adjoa's impactful work includes shaping the CROWN Act to end hair discrimination. With her dynamic presentations, she offers compelling insights into diversity and inclusion, making her a sought-after keynote speaker.

Patrisse Khan Cullors

Co-Founder of Black Lives Matter | New York Times Bestselling Author | Speaker on Social Justice and Community Organizing

Patrisse Khan-Cullors is a renowned activist, artist, and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement. She has been recognized as a Time 100 Most Influential Person and has received the Sydney Peace Prize. Her work spans social justice, criminal justice reform, and community leadership. Patrisse is also a best-selling author and a compelling speaker who inspires change and empowers communities.

Keisha Lance Bottoms

60th Mayor of Atlanta, Member of the President's Export Council

Keisha Lance Bottoms was most recently Mayor of Atlanta, GA – the only in Atlanta’s history to have served in all three branches of government. She served during one of the most challenging times in the history of Atlanta, becoming a national figure for her bold action in the wake of protests following the death of George Floyd. During the 2020 election, Mayor Bottoms was appointed co-chair of the 2020 Democratic National Convention. Bottoms has also served as Senior Advisor to the President for Public Engagement, and is currently a member of the President's Export Council.

Ben O'Keefe

Diversity & Social Change Activist, Political Commentator

Ben O’Keefe is a social change activist, political commentator, and Head of Diversity & Impact Production at Creator+, a next-generation content studio and distribution platform for digital-first storytellers and creators. His work finds him at the intersection of entertainment and politics, having worked with top organizations, brands, politicians, celebrities, and showrunners to build campaigns, make content, and execute strategies that make a bold impact on the world.

Kimberlé Crenshaw

Civil Rights Advocate & Professor of Law

Kimberlé Crenshaw, Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia Law School, is a leading authority in the area of Civil Rights, Black feminist legal theory, and race, racism and the law. Her work has been foundational in two fields of study that have come to be known by terms that she coined: Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality. Crenshaw’s articles have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, National Black Law Journal, Stanford Law Review and Southern California Law Review.

Captain Ron Johnson, Retired

Best Known for Settling the 2014 Race Riots in Ferguson, Missouri

On August 14, 2014, five days after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown ignited protests throughout the city of Ferguson, Missouri, the nation found an unlikely hero in Captain Ron Johnson of the Missouri Highway Patrol. In the early days of the events unfolding in Ferguson, Missouri, Captain Johnson’s leadership was on display while the whole world was watching. He elected to use his moral compass of empathy, compassion and selflessness to serve as the calming, unifying force amidst a rapidly deteriorating situation in Ferguson, Missouri. We call that, WORTHY LEADERSHIP TM.

Angela Davis

Renowned Activist & Scholar | Professor Emerita at UC Santa Cruz | Author of "Women, Race, & Class" | Advocate for Social Justice & Prison Abolition

Angela Davis is internationally known for her ongoing work to combat all forms of oppression in the U.S. and abroad. Her work as an educator has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender equality.

Mikki Kendall

Best Selling Author, Diversity Consultant & Feminist
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Mikki Kendall is a writer, diversity consultant, and occasional feminist who talks about intersectionality, policing, gender, sexual assault, and other current events. She has discussed race, feminism, education, food politics, police violence, tech, and pop culture at institutions and universities across the country. Her essays can be found at major publications across the globe. She is the author of "Hood Feminism", a NYT Best Seller.

Dr. Akilah Cadet

Founder, Speaker, and Executive Coach of Change Cadet

Dr. Akilah Cadet is the Founder and CEO of Change Cadet, an organizational development consulting firm that offers services that support embedding belonging into overall company culture, identity and strategy. As a Forbes Next 1000 Entrepreneur her work is behind some of the biggest brands you use everyday. Dismantling white supremacy through storytelling is at the core of her work as a leader, speaker, creative director, producer, writer, editor and author of forthcoming book White Supremacy is All Around: Notes From a Black Disabled Woman in a White World.

Michael Eric Dyson

Academic & Radio Host

Michael Eric Dyson is an academic, author, preacher, and radio host. He is a Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. Described by Michael A. Fletcher as "a Princeton Ph.D. and a child of the streets who takes pains never to separate the two", Dyson has authored or edited more than twenty books dealing with subjects such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Marvin Gaye, Barack Obama, Nas's debut album Illmatic, Bill Cosby, Tupac Shakur, and Hurricane Katrina.

Bree Newsome

Community Organizer and Activist Who Removed the Confederate Battle Flag from the South Carolina State House

LaTosha Brown

Cofounder of Black Voters Matter Fund, jazz singer, and Senior Practice Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government

Sheena Meade

Chief Executive of the Clean Slate Initiative, Second Chance Advocate

Born into a family of labor organizers, Sheena Meade was exposed to the fight for economic justice early on. That fight became her own when a bounced check led to an arrest record that continually limited her opportunities. Determined to do something to help everyone get a shot at redemption, she now leads the Clean Slate Initiative, where her bipartisan approach has helped drive the clearance of more than seven million conviction and non-conviction records.

Raymond Santana

Criminal Justice Advocate, Member of "The Exonerated Five"

In 1989, Raymond Santana was among five boys—four black and one Latino—that were tried and wrongfully convicted of raping a young woman in New York City’s Central Park. They became known collectively as “The Central Park Five.” On December 19, 2002, the convictions of the five men were overturned. The unidentified DNA met its owner, a convicted murderer and serial rapist who confessed. Santana had spent five years in prison for a crime he did not commit. They are now known as "The Exonerated Five." Since his release, Santana has been committed to advocating and educating people on the disparities in America’s criminal justice system.

Nikole Hannah-Jones

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist | Creator of The 1619 Project | Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at Howard University | Advocate for Racial Justice and Reparations

Nikole Hannah-Jones is an award-winning investigative reporter who covers civil rights and racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine and the Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at Howard University where she is the founding director of the Center for Journalism & Democracy. Her reporting has earned her the Pulitzer Prize, the MacArthur “Genius” Grant, the Knight Award for Public Service, the Peabody Award, two George Polk awards and the National Magazine Award three times. She is a Society of American Historians Fellow and a member of the Academy of Arts & Sciences.