Hon. Yasmin McMorrin
Director of Education Policy, Children's Defense Fund CA | Vice Mayor, Culver City, CA
Mary Alice Stewart
Literary Agent
Hon. Cassandra Chase
Co-Founder, Read Lead|vDirector, Equity and Justice Institute, Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences| Councilmember, City of Lakewood, CA
Tiphanie Yanique
Author & Associate Professor at Emory University
Lesley Ann Wanliss
Editor and Consultant
Charisse Sims
Educator and Co-founded the Sims Library of Poetry
Lynne Thompson
Poet Laureate and a Poet Laureate Fellow of the Academy of American Poets
Heather Thompson
Retired Attorney & Storyteller
John Jennings
Founder of ABRAMS Megascope & Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the UC Riverside