Featured 2023 Speaker
Nikole Hannah-Jones is the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project, which explores the founding of the nation starting in 1619, when the first enslaved Africans arrived in the Virginia colony. Her anthology, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, was a New York Times bestseller. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and is the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at the Howard University School of Communications.
David Gelles
Reporter, The New York Times
Professor Ibram X. Kendi
Founder and Director, BU Center for Antiracist Research
Heather McGhee
Author, "The Sum of Us"
Jena McGregor
Senior Editor, Forbes
Larry Miller
Chairman of the Jordan Advisory Board, Nike
Scott Pulsipher
President, Western Governors University
Kara Swisher
Author, Producer, and Podcaster
Gina Raimondo
U.S. Secretary of Commerce
