Policy Speakers

Award-Winning Writer, Activist & Academic

Real Estate Developer, Peabody Award-Winning Broadcaster & Urban Revitalization Strategy Consultant

Environmental Activist, Storyteller & Ocean Advocate

Wall Street Journal Columnist; Ezra K. Zilkha Chair and Senior Fellow for Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution

Richard Rothstein is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute, the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and of the Haas Institute at the University of California (Berkeley).

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

Pulitzer Prize-Winning New York Times Columnist & Political Commentator

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist; Co-author of Half the Sky; Humanitarian

Executive Director of the ACLU; First Latino & First Openly Gay Executive Director

Technology & Cyber Security Futurist

Academic and Author Specializing in the Middle East and Islamic World, Former Senior Advisor to US Representative to Afghanistan

Lawyer, Social Justice Advocate, Women's Health Expert

Multimedia Journalist

President & CEO of the Center for Democracy and Technology

Inventor and Entrepreneur; President, DEKA Research & Development Corporation

Senior Editor at Fortune Magazine & "RaceAhead" Columnist

Civil Rights Advocate & Leading Scholar in Critical Race Theory

Otolaryngologist, Expert on the Business of Healthcare, Medicine & Small Business Ownership

41st Mayor of San Francisco & 58th Speaker of the California State Assembly

Feminist, Social Activist, Professor & Writer