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Culinary Historian & Author of "Rice: A Savor the South Cookbook"

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

Writer & Social Activist Known for Her Work on Issues of Race & Identity; Author of "So You Want to Talk About Race"

Award-Winning Author of "Halsey Street" & "What’s Mine and Yours"

Bartender, Journalist & Author of "The PDT Cocktail Book"

Anti-Racist Educator, Author of "This Book is Anti-Racist"

Founder & CEO at Goodr Co.

Co-founder & Director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth

Author of "Heads of the Colored People"

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist; Critic-At-Large for The New York Times; Co-Host of "Still Processing" Podcast

Historian; Author, "America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia" & "The Making of Asian America"

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Known for "In The Heights;" Author Known for "My Broken Language"

Climate Change Activist; Author; Founder & Co-Executive Director of Youth-Led Climate Action Group "Zero Hour"

Author of "All You Can Ever Know;" Contributing Writer for The Atlantic; Asian-American Activist

Chef, Culinary Designer & Winner of Bravo's "Top Chef All Stars"

Celebrity Chef, Former "Top Chef" Contestant, Cookbook Author

Award-Winning Director, Writer, Producer & Documentary Filmmaker on Culture, History, Politics, Sports, Art, Architecture, Literature, and Music

Celebrity Chef, Author & Humanitarian; Served as the Personal Chef of Oprah Winfrey

Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker; Bestselling Author of Historical & Transcultural Novels and Memoirs

Entrepreneur, Regenerative Agriculture Advocate & CEO of Western Daughters Butcher Shop