M. Joycelyn Elders
As a pediatric endocrinologist and 15th Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. Elders has a deep concern for young people and teaches that education, prevention, and responsibility are the keys to a healthy life. An outspoken advocate on behalf of children, she is an expert on the prevention of child abuse, teen ...
Greg Louganis
Greg Louganis began competing in diving at age 10. By 16, he had won his first Olympic medal, a silver medal on the platform in 1976. At 24, he became the first man in 56 years to win two gold medals in diving by winning both the platform and springboard events. In 1988, competing against divers half his age, he became the ...
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Former Prime Minister of Norway, Director-General of the World Health Organization, and Chair of the World Commission on Environment and Development, Dr. Brundtland has been a prominent force in addressing key issues such as healthcare, economic sustainability, and the challenges to the environment throughout the world. ...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
A Nobel Peace Laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu served as South Africa's voice of conscience during its long struggle against apartheid, soothing the spirits and rallying the hearts of his people as head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. As a highly regarded and inspirational keynote speaker, he continues to ...
Rosie Perez
A film actress and choreographer, AIDS activist and women's rights advocate, Perez has been nominated for both an Emmy and an Oscar. She has recently produced, directed, and starred in Yo Soy Boricua, Pa Que Tu Lo Sepa: I Am Puerto Rican, Just So You Know, which chronicles the lives of Puerto Ricans living in the ...
Cleve Jones
Cleve Jones’s career as an activist began in San Francisco during the turbulent 1970s, when he befriended pioneer gay rights leader Harvey Milk. Since then, he founded the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and has become a sought after keynote speaker and activist for AIDS awareness, treatment, and education.
Hydeia Broadbent
Broadbent began her debut as an HIV/AIDS activist and public speaker at six years old. By 12 years old, she appeared on many national television programs including Oprah, 20/20, Good Morning America, Weekly with Ed Gordon, and A Conversation with Magic Johnson on Nickelodeon.
Jurnee Smollett
In addition to acting and singing, Jurnee Smollett is the youngest board member of Artists for a New South Africa (ANSA), a nonprofit organization working in the US and South Africa to combat HIV/AIDS, advance human rights and equality, safeguard voting rights, and assist educated and empower children orphaned by AIDS as ...
Jennifer Holliday
Arguably one of the greatest voices of the new millennium, Holliday gives concerts throughout the world and performs with many symphonies across the country. Having lived with depression for over ten years, she found the way to seek help and effectively cope with her disease. She offers the truth about her life, sharing ...
Kathy Najimy
Rarely do we encounter an actress with such a remarkable range of talents and scope of emotion than that of Najimy. Seen in over 20 films such as Sister Act and The Wedding Planner, she is an AIDS activist and enthusiastic supporter of women and animal rights, and choice.
Richard Carmona
As the 17th Surgeon General, Dr. Carmona developed comprehensive knowledge of the environmental influences on healthy living today. He offers a close look at the epidemic of asthma in young children as well as other issues directly related to the state of our environment and how we can work towards not only a healthy body, ...
Sheryl Lee Ralph
Sheryl Lee Ralph is no stranger to success. As a woman in Hollywood, not to mention a woman of color, she is an exception to the rule, having achieved critical acclaim in so many areas of the entertainment industry.
Mohammed Bilal
Cast member of MTV's The Real World. AIDS Activist. He is also a diversity consultant, a musician, a poet, and an extraordinary writer who educates audiences about some of today’s greatest social problems. He is also a facilitator of over 300 diversity presentations and workshops worldwide
Cynthia Nixon
Cynthia Nixon has completed her final season of HBO's celebrated series, Sex and the City, in which she played "Miranda Hobbes," a role that garnered her 2002 and 2003 Emmy nominations. Whether on television or on stage, Nixon is known for her superb characterizations in diverse roles, and is recognized within the ...
Jada Pinkett Smith
Jada Pinkett Smith has proven herself to be one of today's most versatile and gifted young actresses. Recently, she landed one of Hollywood's most sought after roles, as Niobe in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. Smith has amassed an impressive list of motion picture credits, and has established ...
Lily Tomlin
Lily Tomlin, one of America's foremost comediennes, continues to venture across an ever-widening range of media, starring in television, theater, motion pictures, animation, and video. In her entertaining keynote speeches, Tomlin recants her illustrious career, which spanned decades, with candor and charm.
Cybill Shepherd
From wholesome beauty queen to captivating cover girl, from heartbreaking movie star to one of television's most beloved comediennes, and from naive sex kitten to liberated, political spokeswoman, Shepherd has imbued these roles with an indomitable spirit that had made her a female icon to an entire generation.
Doris Roberts
With her instantly recognizable voice, Emmy-winner Roberts has maintained an illustrious career in theater, film and television and is part of our lives, especially as the memorable “Marie” on Everybody Loves Raymond. With warmth, wit, and wry humor, she shares her moving, yet hilarious life story and her ...
Jennifer Jako
AIDS Activist. Ten years AIDS survivor. Award-winning director of MTV's "True Life: It Could Be You". Certified AIDS educator. Infected with HIV as a teen, Jako channels her insight, high energy and humor into an honest personal discussion of AIDS in the media, choices and the meaning of life.
Malaak Compton-Rock
A graceful and inspirational force, Compton-Rock is devoted to volunteerism and focuses on such issues as youth, women’s empowerment, and education. Founder of The Angelrock Project, she works to promote social responsibility and encourages us all to live a life of service. A judge on Oprah’s Big Give, a ...
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