Nkosi Nkululeko
Nkosi Nkululeko is a brilliant new poetic voice, whose carefully crafted works explodes when he delivers his passionate performances.
Diversity & Multicultural
Diverse and multicultural speakers, crossing cultural boundaries for greater understanding
Lateefah Simon
For two decades, Lateefah Simon’s work has been about working with our nation’s most rejected and marginalized – youth of color trapped in the juvenile and criminal systems.
Michael Tubbs
Community organizer who advocates speaking truth to power and power to youth, Tubbs, born to a teen mother and an incarcerated father, has become the youngest mayor in Stockton, CA history!
Bernice Johnson Reagon & Toshi Reagon
Bernice Johnson Reagon and daughter Toshi Reagon have worked on civil rights music projects including the scores for the films Africans In America and BEAH: A Black Woman Speaks.
Video: Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon – There and Back Again
Charles Johnson
National Book Award winner for Middle Passage, Charles Johnson has also written the novels Oxherding Tale, Dreamer, and Faith and the Good Thing.
Robert Bullard
Called “the Father of Environmental Justice,” Dr. Bullard has been the leading voice against environmental racism for decades, including the recent Flint water crisis.
Richard Rodriguez
An award–winning, thought provoking writer, hailed in The Washington Post as “one of the most eloquent and probing public intellectuals in America”.
Video: Richard Rodriguez at the Library of Congress
Arn Chorn-Pond
Renowned human rights activist, musician and Cambodian genocide survivor. Inspiring change with incredible stories of hope, endurance, and survival through the power of music.
Jim Lucas
Jim Lucas travels nationwide, delivering hundreds of performances of Dr. Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream, I’ve Been to the Mountaintop and other works in a dramatic one-man show.
Urvashi Vaid
Nationally acclaimed LGBT leader, attorney, community organizer throughout her entire professional career. She offers an insightful analysis of the gay rights movement, past and future.
Video: Urvashi Vaid addresses the Fenway Health Women’s Dinner Party
Toshia Shaw
Founder of Purple W.I.N.G.S., demystifying misconceptions about who is at-risk for sexual violence and transforms audiences with her harrowing journey out of sex trafficking.
Shola Lynch
Award-winning filmmaker, scholar, and prominent film curator known for the documentaries FREE ANGELA And All Political Prisoners, and Chisolm ’72-Unbought and Unbossed.
Video: Toronto International Film Festival Interview with Shola Lynch
Enrique Morones
Internationally acclaimed activist and advocate for immigrants, founder of Border Angels, he brings to the forefront stories of those often forgotten in this fight for social justice.
Jesus Papoleto Melendez
Jesús Papoleto Meléndez (“Papo”) is a New York-born Puerto Rican award-winning poet most associated with the Nuyorican movement.
Video: Jesus Papoleto Melendez Speaking at Taller Boricua, NYC
Abiodun Oyewole
Abiodun Oyewole is a poet, teacher and founding member of the spoken-word group The Last Poets.
Winona LaDuke
Native American environmentalist, economist, and author working on sustainable development practices
J.L. Torres
Author of The Accidental Native and critical commentator of culture, arts and politics from a Latino perspective.
Lisa Dodson
Award winning author and sociologist, Dodson’s book The Moral Underground: A Silent Movement for Economic Justice shares stories that restore a sense of justice into the working world.