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Erin Gruwell

Educator & Founder of The Freedom Writers Foundation

Erin Gruwell has earned an award-winning reputation for her steadfast commitment to the future of education. Her impact as a change agent attracted Hollywood’s attention, and in 2007, Paramount Pictures released Freedom Writers, starring two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank as Erin.

Eva Saha

Emcee, Host & Moderator
GOTHAM ARTISTS COLLECTIVE

Eva Saha is a professional host, emcee, and moderator. She is best known for having worked as a TV personality on the Emmy Award winning entertainment show, 190 North, on Chicago’s ABC7. Her natural, warm, and commanding presence, both on and off-camera, has also made her the host of choice for a variety of in-person and virtual-event clients including Cardinal Health, Philips Healthcare, Women in IT Awards and Thomson Reuters.

Geena Rocero

Transgender Fashion Model & Activist

Geena Rocero, born and raised in Manila, Philippines, is a four time Emmy Nominated and an Award Winning Producer, Writer and Director. She’s also a Model, Public Speaker, Trans Rights Advocate and co-host of the Webby Awards honoree TV Show ASPIREist, broadcasted on HLN/CNN. Her memoir HORSE BARBIE released on May 30, 2023 by Penguin Random House imprint, The Dial Press is the recipient of The 2023 THEM Now Awards for Literature. The Horse Barbie Audiobook read by Geena is named ‘2023 Best Audiobook’ by Apple Books and won the 2023 ‘Earphones Award’ by the AudioFile Magazine. She is the 2023 recipient of The A1 Award in Gold House’s A100 List of the most impactful AAPI’s along with Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria, Vanity Fair’s Editor in Chief Radhika Jones and Youtube CEO Neal Mohan.

Gene Demby

Co-host/Correspondent, Code Switch

Gene Demby is a founding member of NPR’s race, ethnicity and culture team, Code Switch. He serves as the blog's "host," starting and moderating conversations across an array of platforms. Before NPR, he served as the managing editor for Huffington Post's BlackVoices following its launch. He later covered politics. Prior to that role he spent six years in various positions at The New York Times. While at NYT, he started a blog about race, culture, politics and media called PostBourgie in 2007.

Golriz Lucina

Head of Creative at SoulPancake

Golriz Lucina is the Head of Creative at SoulPancake, an inspiring entertainment company founded by actor Rainn Wilson, that creates daily socially conscious videos about human connection.

Holly Ransom

Global Speaker, Interviewer and Leadership Trailblazer

At five years old, Holly’s Grandmother Dorothy said to her “Honey, if you walk past it, you tell the world it’s okay.” Holly has devoted her life and leadership to this mantra ever since; inspiring audiences around the globe to stand up and lead the change they care enough to make. Holly has compressed a power-packed career into a decade, spanning corporate, non-profit, and public sectors. Through her leadership consulting firm, Emergent, she has produced real-world results for clients such as P&G, Microsoft, Virgin, Cisco, and KPMG. Holly is also an accomplished board director for organizations such as Port Adelaide Football Club and Hudson. A proud champion for diversity and inclusion, Holly is Chair of Pride Cup Australia and devoted to challenging LGBTI+ discrimination within sporting clubs

Ice-T

Rapper & Actor, Law & Order: SVU

Ice-T not only invented gangster rap, he has lived it. Ice-T is the original embodiment of LA Hip-Hop and a cultural icon. Through his music, his books, and his lecture tours of America’s prisons, high schools, libraries, and colleges, Ice-T has become an influential spokesman for America’s youth, regardless of color.

Ingrid Fetell Lee

Founder of The Aesthetics of Joy

Ingrid Fetell Lee discusses the powerful connection between our surroundings and our emotions, and empowers people to find more joy in daily life through design.

J.R. Martinez

Burn Survivor, Army Veteran, Actor, & Bestselling Author

J.R. Martinez is an Army veteran, burn survivor, actor, motivational speaker, New York Times best-selling author, and Dancing with the Stars season 13 winner. J.R. travels the world spreading his message of resilience and optimism and does it all with a smile.

Jade Simmons

Acclaimed Creator of Mind Blowing, Transformational Experiences & One of a Kind Inspirational Adventure

Jade Simmons is an internationally acclaimed creator of transformational experiences designed to activate audiences into becoming the biggest, boldest version of themselves possible. The world-class concert artist is also the CEO of Jade Media Global, a revolutionary live experience and global content distribution company specializing in 360o personal development and strategic transformation. Nicknamed “Classical Music’s #1 Maverick” and named one of the Best Keynote Speakers of 2019 and 2020, her electrifying, genre-bending concert adventures span Rachmaninoff all the way to rap and include virtuoso storytelling, uncommon insights, and boundless inspiration. Today, Jade’s experiences not only delight concert audiences, but her dazzling, high-impact presentations are fast becoming the go to fuel for the world’s superlative brands and organizations from financial services, to biotech, to entertainment, education, energy and beyond. The equal-opportunity disrupter was also a surprise Independent candidate for President in the 2020 elections.