Medicine woman gina Breedlove is a sound healer, vocalist, composer, actor, & author from Brooklyn, NY. gina began her walk with spirit and music at age 9. singing and sounding with the mothers of her holy roller baptist meets pentecost church, in Apalachicola, Fla. She is from brackish water and beings that lay hands and sound to heal and move energy.

john a. powell is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of civil rights, civil liberties, structural racism, housing, poverty, and democracy. john is the Director of the Othering & Belonging Institute and holds the Robert D. Haas Chancellor’s Chair in Equity and Inclusion. He is also a Professor of Law, African American Studies, and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley.

Judith Butler is a Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of more than a dozen books translated into more than 27 languages. She served as a founding director, with Martin Jay, of the Critical Theory Program and the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs at UC Berkeley.

ALOK (they/them) is a gender non-conforming writer & performance artist who was recently featured in HuPo's “Culture Shifters '21” List. Their distinctive style and poetic challenge to the gender binary has been internationally renowned. ALOK uses poetry, prose, comedy, performance, design, and portraiture to explore themes of eugenics, trauma, belonging, and the human condition.

Loretta J. Ross is a Professor at Smith College in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender where she teaches courses on white supremacy, human rights, and calling in the calling out culture. Loretta was the National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective (2005-2012) and co-created the theory of Reproductive Justice.

Arlie Hochschild is a UC Berkeley sociology professor emerita. Her books include The Second Shift, The Managed Heart, Global Woman, (co-edited) and most recently, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, a 2016 New York Times best seller and finalist for the National Book Award. She is currently collaborating on a documentary on the Tea Party and race.

Dr. Eboo Patel is one of America’s foremost experts on religious diversity and bridgebuilding. He is founder and president of IFYC, the largest interfaith organization in North America, and served on President Obama’s inaugural Faith Council. For twenty years, Eboo has worked with governments, social sector organizations and private companies on interfaith cooperation.

Amanda Ripley is a NYT bestselling author and an investigative journalist who writes about human behavior and change for the Atlantic, the Washington Post and others. She is the author of High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out, TheSmartest Kids in the World--and How They Got That Way and The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes, and Why.

Albert Samaha is an investigative journalist, Inequality Editor at BuzzFeed News, and author of two books: Never Ran, Never Will: Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City, and Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortunes. His reporting on a narcotics unit in Mississippi led to a police captain’s resignation in 2015.

Dr. Molly Crockett is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Yale University and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics. Prior to joining Yale, Dr Crockett was an Associate Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Jesus College. She holds a BSc in Psychobiology from UCLA and a PhD in Experimental Psychology.

Deen Freelon is an associate professor at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina and a principal researcher at the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life. His theoretical interests address how ordinary citizens use social media and other digital communication technologies for political purposes.

Dr. Daniel Jolley is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Northumbria University (UK). He is a Chartered Psychologist of the British Psychological Society, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Social Psychology Section. Daniel’s main area of research is the psychology of conspiracy theories. He uses experimental methods to examine the social consequences of conspiracy theories.