Diverse Communities
Bi-Racial
Business Leader & Child Advocate
Stephen Pemberton is the Divisional VP and Chief Diversity Officer of Walgreens and is an expert at diversifying workforces. He is a leading keynote speaker on matters of diversity and inclusion and its importance to... |
Decathlon World Champion
From a fist-fighting, drug-using, and pre-suicidal youth, Clay became the "World's Greatest Athlete" in the decathlon. |
Authority on Race and Identity
Speaker Danzy Senna brings her biracial struggles and coming of age to life in Caucasia, a story of a young girl navigating the racial battlegrounds of 1970s Boston. |
Widow of Journalist Daniel Pearl
Pearl is a unique and versatile award-winning journalist who has written A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl, a gripping and profound narrative of her experience and the pursuit... |
Broadway, Film and TV Actor
Known for his role on NBC's "Homicide" and several starring roles in Spike Lee's films. International lecturer and motivator. |
Actress & African Princess
Adopted at a young age, speaker Sarah Culberson later discovered she was an African princess. The author of A Princess Found, she raises awareness about Sierra Leone. |
Global Affairs Expert On India / Award-Winning Author
The award-winning author of Planet India: The Turbulent Rise of the World’s Largest Democracy and the Future of our World, Kamdar is a globally renowned expert on India. |
Community Organizer, Journalist & Political Activist
Speaker Rosa Clemente engages communities through her discussions on Afro-Latino identity and politics, sexism within hip-hop culture, and hip-hop activism. |
Diversity Consultant / Keynoter
Samuel Betances is a powerful speaker on issues of diversity, race relations, gender issues and education. He is the creator of the audio series Ten Steps to the Head of the... |
Actress & Foster Care Advocate
Emmy-nominated actress Victoria Rowell founded the Rowell Foster Children's Positive Plan to help foster children explore their potential through the arts. |
New York Times Best-Selling Author & Musician
An award-winning jazz musician, McBride is the author of The New York Times bestseller, The Color of Water, a memoir that has become a modern classic. Spike Lee directed the film adaptation of McBride's... |
Actress, Model & Activist
Speaker Yaya DaCosta was a semi-finalist on America's Next Top Model, an NAACP Image Award nominated actress, and a Brown University graduate. |
Author
W. Ralph Eubanks is the author of Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi's Dark Past, which The Washington Post book critic Jonathan Yardley named as one of the best nonfiction books of 2003.... |
Best-Selling Author & Face of Innovation Thought Leadership
Frans Johansson is the best-selling author of The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation. Translated into 18 languages, The Medici Effect was named one of the top ten... |
Singer / Television Personality
In the past few years Nashville native Kimberley Locke, a pop/R&B singer, has had eight Top 20 Adult Contemporary hits, three #1 Dance hits, and eight #1's across various Billboard charts. She gained fame with... |
Best-Selling Author
In her NYT best-selling novel The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, Heidi Durrow tells the story of a biracial girl growing up in 1980s Portland, a story based loosely upon elements of her life. |
MVP Wide Receiver & Activist
Perhaps the greatest wide receiver in Steelers' history, speaker Hines Ward promotes social and political reform in South Korea through his Helping Hands Foundation. |
Editor-in-Chief of Ebony Magazine
An award-winning media executive and brand architect, speaker Amy DuBois Barnett is of one of our nation's premier curators of American popular culture. |
Best-Selling Author & Screenwriter
Best-selling novelist Elizabeth Atkins delves into the sensitive dynamics of family, friendship, love and race in her novels, White Chocolate, Dark Secret, and her newest, Other People's Skin. A... |
Triple Threat Entertainer
SARGE is an entertainer and musical savant who has performed worldwide to adoring audiences. His sidesplitting comedy, touching vocals and stunning display of dexterity as a pianist have amazed crowds for decades.... |
