Melba Moore

Tony Award Winner,
Grammy Award Nominated Singer and Actress

Glenda McNeal

Chief Partner Officer,
American Express

Robin Washington

Incoming President and Chief Operating and Financial Officer,
Salesforce

Valerie Jarrett

Chief Executive Officer,
Barack Obama Foundation

Monique Rodriquez

American Entrepreneur and Founder,
Mielle Organics

Jemele Hill

Journalist

Minda Harts

Workplace Consultant, Author & Speaker

Tunde Oyeneyin

New York Time’s Best-Selling Author, Peloton Instructor and Motivational Speaker

Judy A. Smith

Thasunda Brown Duckett

Mellody Hobson

Aisha Bowe

Symone Sanders Townsend

Dia Simms

LORETTA DEVINE

Actress

TRACEY TRAVIS

EVP & CFO
The Estee Lauder Companies

VERA MOORE

President & CEO
Vera Moore Cosmetics

LISA WARDELL

Former Chairman & CEO
Adtalem Global Education

Issa Rae

Actress, Writer, Producer & Comedian

Luvvie Ajayi Jones

New York Times bestselling Author, Speaker, and Multimedia Entrepreneur.

LAUREN SIMMONS

Wolfette Of Wall Street

Yolanda Adams

Gospel Legend

A’ Lelia Bundles

Journalist; Author; Founder,
Madam Walker Family Archives

Sherrilyn Ifill

President & Director-Counsel,
NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Janice Bryant Howroyd

Founder & CEO,
ActOne Group

Tamika Mallory

Activist; Author

Ukonwa Ojo

Global Chief Marketing Officer,
Prime Videos & Amazon Studios

Debbie Allen

Award-winning Actress, Director and Producer

Debra Lee

Former CEO & Chairman Emeritus, BET Networks;
CEO, Leading Women Defined Inc.

Myrtle Potter

Chief Executive Officer, Sumitovant Biopharma;
Former Executive Vice President & COO, Genentech

Gale V. King

Executive Vice President & Chief Administrative Officer,
Nationwide

Cynthia Marshall

CEO,
Dallas Mavericks

Alice Walker

Pulitzer Prize-winning author

Chaka Khan

Legendary Singer, Songwriter, Activist

Vashti Murphy McKenzie

Bishop of the 10th Episcopal District of the AME Church

Carmen De Lavallade

Legendary Dancer, Choreographer, Actress

Edith W. Cooper

Executive Vice President and Global Head of Human Capital Management,
Goldman Sachs Group

Jayne Kennedy Overton

Ground-breaking Sportscaster, Actress, Model, Philanthropist

Donna Brazile

Veteran Democratic Political Strategist, Author, and Adjunct Professor

Ursual Burns

Chairman & CEO,
Xerox Corp.

Phylicia Rashad

Award-winning Actress

Shirley Caesar

Pastor & Award Winning Gospel Artist

Marcia Ann Gillespie

Former Editor-in-Chief of Ms. Magazine and Essence; Gender and Race Activist

Renee Powell

First African American woman to be inducted into the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of Saint Andrews

Vanessa L. Williams

Actress, Singer, Author

N. Joyce Payne

Founder: Thurgood Marshall Fund

Susan L. Taylor

Founder & CEO, National Cares Mentoring Movement

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Journalist & Author

Pam Grier

Activist & Actress

Beverly Tatum

President, Spelman College

Valerie Daniels Carter

Myrlie Evers

Civil Rights Activist

Cicely Tyson

Actress

Julieanna Richardson

Founder of History

Marian Wright Edelman

President & Founder, Children’s Defense Fund

Marcelite Harris

Retired, United State Air Force

Cathy Hughes

Founder & Chairperson, TV One

Marva Collins

American Educator

Cathy Ross

EVP & Chief Financial Officer, FedEx Express

Amsale Aberra

Co-Founder/Co-CEO & Creative Director, Amsale Design Group

Anita Hill

Professor of Social Policy, Law and Women’s Studies

Rachel Robinson

Founder, Jackie Robinson Foundation

Carole Simpson

Veteran Broadcast Journalist

Dionne Warwick

Singer & Activist

Barbara Harris

Retired Bishop Suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts

Bethann Hardison

Founder & President, Bethann Management Co. Inc.

Ntozake Shange

American Playwright & Poet

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Congresswoman, Washington, DC

Shirley Ann Jackson

President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

B. Smith

President & Chief Creative Officer, B. Smith Enterprises

Alexis Herman

US 23rd Secretary of Labor

Audrey Smaltz

CEO & Founder, The Ground Crew Worldwide

Aulana L. Peters

Retired Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

Jocelyn Elders

Former US Surgeon General

Mary Frances Berry

Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought & Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania

Leah Chase

Owner, Dooky’s Chase Restaurant

JoAnn Price

Managing Partner, Fariview Capital Management

Ann Fudge

Former Chair & CEO, Young & Rubicam Brands

Dorothy Height

Chair & President, National Council of Negro Women

Nikki Giovanni

Poet, Writer, Commentator, Activist, Educator & Professor. Virginia Tech

Ruby Dee Davis

Actress, Poet, Activist, Playwright, Screenwriter & Journalist

Faye Wattleton

President, Center for the Advancement of Women

Judith Jamison

Artistic Director, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Ruth Simmons

President, Brown University

Ernesta Procope

President & CEO, E.G. Bowman & Co. Inc.

Johnnetta B. Cole

President, Bennett College For Women

Suzanne de Passe

Chairman & CEO, de Passe Entertainment

Joyce Roche

President & CEO, Girls Inc.