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Ambassador Munir Akram
Following a long and distinguished diplomatic career as the former Permanent Representative to the United Nations from Pakistan, Ambassador Munir Akram is now ready to step out from behind the diplomatic curtain and tell what he knows and offer his perspective on what the goals of the United States should be in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and how they can be obtained.

Available Programs

  • What the united states Policy and goals should be in Pakistan and Afghanistan and how they can be obtained.
  • Economic development and climate change. Nuclear proliferation and nuclear policy.

Dr. Oscar Arias
Awarded the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in ending political violence in Central America, Dr. Arias champions such issues as human development, democracy, and demilitarization, and has travelled the globe spreading his message of peace.

Available Programs
  • The Struggle for peace and justice.
  • People-centered Policy: Human Development and Human Security.
  • Moral Leadership in today's world.
  • Priorities and Ethics for the 21st Century.

Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
With her father former President of Sri Lanka and mother the world’s first women Prime Minister, Kumaratunga was destined to be the first woman President of Sri Lanka. Renowned for her energy and intellect, she describes leading a nation through challenging times, including the 2004 tsunami, fighting terrorism, and assassination attempts on her life.

Available Programs
  • Conflict Resolution and Peace Building.
  • For larger freedom: Pursuit of Peace in Sri Lanka.

Dr. Mary Frances Berry
Former Chairperson of the US Civil Rights Commission, law professor, and esteemed civil rights historian, Berry continually defends the rights of all people with her actions and dedication to equality. From fair housing to equal opportunity to voter's rights, she has been a strong advocate for the disempowered and continues to emphasize the importance of developing and fostering a rich, diverse nation.

Available Programs
  • The state of Civil Rights Movement in a Post/Cosby world.
  • Race, Politics and the 2008 Elections.
  • Woman and Politics and the 2008 Elections.
  • Race, gender and the American Courts.
  • Affirmative Action: Are Political Opportunists' Exploiting Racial Fears?

Julian Bond
Beginning with his pivotal role in the Civil Rights movement, Bond has always been on the cutting edge of social change and leadership. Legendary as the first black US vice presidential nominee, he is now Chairman of the NAACP and continues to deliver a powerful message of equality, freedom, and justice with a renewed sense of relevance.

Available Programs
  • The Road to Freedom: From Alabam to Obama.
  • Race to the White House: The politics of Civil Rights.
  • Mentoring and the Corporate Way.
  • Civil Rights: In the Day, Today and the Tomorrow. Black,
  • Jewish, Muslim: Common cause with those who share our condition.
  • Crossing the Colour Line: From Rhythm 'n Blues to Rock 'n Roll.

Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland
Former Prime Minister of Norway, Director-General of the World Health Organization, and Chair of the World Commission on Environment and Development, Dr. Brundtland has been a prominent force in addressing key issues such as healthcare, economic sustainability, and the challenges to the environment throughout the world. She now serves as UN Special Envoy on Climate Change, seeking ways to balance human enterprise and the planet’s limits. Continuing where the“Brundtland Report” on sustainability she spearheaded over 20 years ago left off, she focuses on the developmental impact of climate change and global warming.

Available Programs
  • Global Health Security: Putting a stop on the next Pandemic.
  • WHO and the battle against SARS: How we confronted and contained the global expansion of SARS.
  • Macroeconomics and Health - Investing in Health for Economic Development.
  • A Woman's perspective in Leadership.
  • Forward-Thinking Leadership and Effective Foreign Policy in the global arena.

Dr. Oscar Arias
Awarded the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in ending political violence in Central America, Dr. Arias champions such issues as human development, democracy, and demilitarization, and has travelled the globe spreading his message of peace.

Available Programs
  • The Struggle for peace and justice.
  • People-centered Policy: Human Development and Human Security.
  • Moral Leadership in today's world.
  • Priorities and Ethics for the 21st Century.

The Right Honourable Kim Campbell
Having made history as Canada's first female Prime Minister, The Right Honourable Campbell is among the most celebrated world leaders. Expanding her global influence, she was instrumental as Co-Founder of Club of Madrid, an organization of current and former heads of state and government dedicated to strengthening democracy worldwide. An expert on issues relating to international politics and conflict resolution, democratization, international trade, gender, and leadership, she is like no other former head of state, making informative and engaging media appearances ranging from network news programs to Real Time with Bill Maher.

Available Programs
  • Trade, Economic Development, and Migration of People.
  • Gender and Power: How it plays out.
  • The important Role of Education and Economic Empowerment of Woman to achieve development.
  • The Role of leaders in Democratic Transitions.
  • Healthcare Systems of Canada and the US: What works where and why.
  • The Social dimensions of Climate Change.


Geoffrey Canada
Profiled on 60 Minutes, Canada has achieved great success as President and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone, an agency that fuses community building with academic achievement to improve the futures of inner city youth. An innovative educator, youth advocate, and the author of Reaching Up for Manhood: Transforming the Lives of Boys in America, he offers a unique vision of leadership.

Available Programs

  • Leadership is only as great as those around you. 
  • Improving the lives of Children, One poor child at a time.
  • Levelling the playing field, Helping poor children to succeed.


Dr. Richard Carmona
As the 17th Surgeon General, Dr. Carmona developed comprehensive knowledge of the environmental influences on healthy living today. He offers a close look at the epidemic of asthma in young children as well as other issues directly related to the state of our environment and how we can work towards not only a healthy body, but a healthy environment.

Available Programs

  • Plagues, Pestilence, Prevention, Preparedness an Politics: The life of the Surgeon General.
  • Only in America: From high school dropout to Surgeon General.
  • The Challenge of Health Disparities: A legal, Ethical, Moral and Workforce Dilemma.
  • Obesity: The Hidden Terror within.
  • The Elements of all Hazards Preparedness: Prevention, Response, Mitigation and Recovery.
  •  United States Mental Health.

Dr. Johnnetta Cole
A pioneer and role model for African American women across the country, Cole is the President Emeritus of Bennett College. Her ground-breaking career has made history, as the first African American woman to serve as president of Spelman College and the first African American woman to serve as Chair of the Board of United Way of America.

Available Programs
  • The Business Case for Diversity and Inclusion.
  • The Case for Diversity and Inclusion in American Higher Education.
  • Race, Gender and Class in the run for American Presidency.
  • Women and Leadership.
  • Everybody can be a philanthropist.

Dr. Beverly Coleman-Miller
Dr. Coleman-Miller is an internal medicine physician and a Senior Medical Consultant to Health Education Network, Inc., in Washington, DC. Her focus is on quality of care and patient safety. She has over thirty years of local, state, national and international experience in public health, mental health, program development, education and advocacy for patients and families negotiating the health care delivery system.

Available Programs
  • Youth Violence Prevention.
  • Confronting problems of Urban Health.
  • Cultural Competency.
  • Eliminating Health Disparities: What Communities can do.
  • Mental Health, Culture and Ethnicity.
  • Women's Health: The Special Needs of Women and Girls..

Dr. Michael Eric Dyson
Named by Essence magazine as one of the 50 most inspiring African Americans, Dyson is one of the nation's most renowned public intellectuals, revitalizing the role with the fervor of an ordained Baptist minister. Called "a street fighter in a suit and tie," he takes on the toughest and most controversial issues of the day, including race, politics, and pop culture with his fearless and fiery rhetoric.

Available Programs
  • Race Rules.
  • What have we come to? Wars between Generations.
  • African American Influence on Pop Culture.
  • Dr King for the 21st Century.
  • Is Bill Cosby Right? Or has the Black Middle Class Lost its mind?
  • Come hell or high water: Hurricane Katrina and the colour of disaster.


Shirin Ebadi
An extraordinary woman of many firsts, Iranian lawyer and activist Ebadi has made history as the first Muslim to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for her courageous defence of human rights in Iran. One of the most intelligent, passionate, and respected voices of dissent from within this complex nation, she speaks to the world about democracy and the fundamental rights of women, children, and all individuals.

Available Programs

  • Iran Awakening: A Story of Revolution and Hope.
  • The Role of Women in World Peace.
  • True Islam: Human Rights and the Role of Faith.


Maria Echaveste
As the former Assistant to President Clinton and Deputy Chief of Staff, Echaveste was the highest-ranking female Hispanic Official at the White House. She previously served as Administrator of the US Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division, and worked extensively on the Department's anti-sweatshop effort..

Available Programs

  • The growing political, social and Economic influence of Hispanic Americans: Myth or Reality?
  • Globalization: Can consumers make a difference?
  • The Border: Are we Ready for it to disappear?
  • The Intersection among politics, policy and communications.

Christopher Edley
Christopher Edley, Jr. joined Boalt Hall as Dean and Professor of Law in 2004 after 23 years as a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is the first African American dean to lead a top-ranked US law school. Edley's academic work is primarily in the areas of civil rights and administrative law. He was co-founder of the Harvard Civil Rights Project, a renowned multidisciplinary research and policy think tank focused on issues of racial justice.

Available Programs
  • Affirmative Action and American Values.
  • The future of civil rights movement.
  • Race, Policy and the Political Process.
  •  K-16 Education and Justice in America.

Dr. M. Joycelyn Elders
As a paediatric endocrinologist and 15th Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. Elders has a deep concern for young people and teaches that education, prevention, and responsibility are the keys to a healthy life. An outspoken advocate on behalf of children, she is an expert on the prevention of child abuse, teen pregnancy, violence, and substance abuse.

Available Programs
  • The Politics of Healthcare.
  • Healthcare in the 21st Century.
  • Education: A key to a healthy America.
  • Healthcare Issues in the Minority Community.
  • Woman's reproductive rights.
  • Health Education in Public schools.


Dr. David Elkind
Renowned psychologist and author of "Reinventing Childhood". Provides the information and guidance that parents and teachers need to work effectively with the new generation of children in our care.

Available Programs

  • The Hurried Child. All grown up and no place to go.
  • Miseducation: Pre-school are at risk.
  • Children in Crisis.
  • The Power of play: Rearing Healthy Children in a stressful world.


Prof. Caroline Elkins
Conversant in Swahili and Kikuyu, Elkins has used this knowledge to travel and work in rural areas in Africa, particularly in Kenya. Her research has won numerous awards, including the Fulbright, Andrew W. Mellon and Knox Fellowships as well as a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her first book, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya, chronicles the British detention camp system in Kenya during the 1950s, and the war crimes perpetrated by colonial officials and settlers during this episode of imperial rule. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 2006.

Available Programs

  • The dark side of democracy: Empire in the 20th century.
  • Human rights in a global world.
  • The curse of genocide.

Myrlie Evers-Williams
Wife of slain civil rights activist, Medgar Evers, Evers-Williams became the first woman to lead and restore the credibility of the NAACP during a time when it was surrounded by scandal and controversy. She continues her activism on behalf of racial and gender equality and is co-author of The Autobiography of Medgar Evers with Dr. Manning Marable.

Available Programs

  • Tomorrows leaders: Their Voices, Our journey.
  • Leadership by action not by Design.
  • Not exactly what you thought.

Mike Farrell
Known to millions of the world's viewers as "B.J. Hunnicutt" of television's historic M*A*S*H series and later from NBC's Providence, Farrell was also the producer of Universal Pictures's hit feature, Patch Adams.

Available Programs
  • Becoming Informed, Getting Involved, Making a difference.
  • The social consequences of the Death Penalty.
  • Human Rights.

Richard Ford
leading expert on civil rights and anti-discrimination law, Richard Thompson Ford has distinguished himself as an insightful voice in the ongoing cultural dialogue involving race and multiculturalism. He is currently the George E. Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. His newest book, titled The Race Card, deals with hot button questions of race and racism with cool-headed objectivity and ideological balance.

Available Programs
  • The Race Card: Racism without racist.
  • The Race Card: Racism by analogy.
  • The Race Card: The clash of the ends.

Avery Friedman
With roughly 3,000,000 viewers each week on CNN, weekly legal correspondent Avery Friedman is America’s best known civil rights lawyer and law professor.

Available Programs
  • The constitution and counterfeit patriotism: How everyday Americans have victories through the US.
  • American rights and American wrongs: How American David's Prevail against Goliaths through ??? <cuts off on website>
  • Moving the ceiling: How the American constitution has advanced true opportunity for a 21st century.


President Cesar Gaviria
Former Colombian President César Gaviria --known in Latin America as a conflict mediator, advocate of democracy, staunch supporter of regional integration and defender of human rights-- also served as the first elected Organization of American State (OAS) Secretary General.

Available Programs

  • Doing business in Latin America: Understanding the economical and Political Climate.
  • Conflict resolution.
  • Challenges faced by China, India, and Latin America.
  • Leadership in an uncertain world.
  • The SocioEconmic importance of Protecting our world's oceans.
  • The war on drugs.


Dr. Peter J. Gomes
As minister of Harvard University’s Memorial Church, Rev. Gomes is one of the most distinguished and respected preachers as well as author of numerous best-selling books, including The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart and his most recent, The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus. Deeply vested in humanity and compassion for mankind, he offers a clarion call to embrace joy, rise to the good life, and enact Biblical wisdom in daily living.

Available Programs

  • The Good Life: Truths that last in times of need.
  • Strength for the journey: Biblical wisdom for Daily Living.
  • The bible today: Tough Truths for tender people.
  • Values and Morals in an age of uncertainty.
  • Race, Anti-Semitism, Feminism, Homosexuality: The challenge of Inclusion.

Lou Gossett Jr.
As one of the most sought after veteran actors, Oscar winner Gossett has reached the heights of success. His unique talent for portraying powerful and charismatic characters has charmed audiences worldwide. As Founder of the Eracism Foundation, he is dedicated to fighting racism, ignorance, and social apathy.

Available Programs
  • Our way of living is killing the planet.
  • Eracsim: eradicating racism for the future.
  • Hollywoods red light for African American History and Heroes.
  • Stop crying and do something: African American Empowerment.

Roya Hakakian
A celebrated poet and filmmaker, Roya Hakakian has collaborated on over a dozen hours of programming for some of the most prestigious journalism units on network television, and has authored two highly acclaimed collections of poetry. Her most recent publication, Journey from the Land of No, is a memoir of growing up a Jewish teenager in post-revolutionary Iran.

Available Programs
  • Journey from the land of No: A girlhood caught in revolutionary Iran.
  • The fundamentals of an Iranian in Exile.
  • Iran 101: An insiders guide to a country in turmoil.
  • The Jews of Iran today..

Goldie Hawn
Hawn's Academy Award-winning roles and lasting impressions have gained her adoring audiences worldwide. A woman of many talents, she is not only a gifted actor and celebrity speaker, but also a creative director, savvy producer, successful entrepreneur, respected CEO, and loving parent. Managing to balance her life with such extensive responsibilities, she understands the importance of appreciating the simple joys of a hectic lifestyle.

Available Programs
  • Words from the leading lady: Learning when to lead and when to follow.
  • Changing the world, one mind at a time.
  • Wellness: Body Mind and spirit.
  • The great balancing act: Managing Multiple roles as a working Parent.
  • Laughter is the best medicine.
  • Human Potential.

Chris Hedges
A graduate of Harvard Divinity School and a foreign correspondent for nearly two decades in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans, he writes and speaks extensively on war, religion and the conflict in the Middle East. He is the author of the bestseller War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, a book that draws on the many conflicts he covered to explore what war does to societies and individuals. His most recent work is I Don’t Believe in Atheists.

Available Programs
  • War is a force that gives us meaning.
  • American Fascists: The Christian right and the war on America.
  • The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
  • The new atheists as Secular Fundamentalists.
  • Covering War and conflict as a foreign correspondent.
  • Moral Choice in the Times of War.

President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Internationally known as Africa’s “Iron Lady,” President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf became the first woman to lead an African nation. A Harvard educated former World Bank economist, she is a leading promoter of peace, justice, and democratic rule, working tirelessly end the corruption that has plagued her country.

Available Programs

  • Combating corruption and crime to foster Peace.
  • Poverty and Development, conflict and Peace.
  • The challenges of lasting Peace.
  • Africa and its place in the World.
  • Leading the World with the Iron Lady's touch.

Robin Kelley
Author and historian Robin D.G. Kelley is one of the most distinguished experts on African American studies and a celebrated professor who has lectured at some of America’s highest learning institutions. He is currently Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.

Available Programs
  • Before Obama: How black folks saved American Democracy.
  • Teaching to change the world: Transforming Public Education.
  • The secret Racial History of American Prosperity.
  • Thelonious Monk: The life and Music of an American Genius.
  • Another Reconstruction?: Race Respirations in Post Katrina America.
  • 'We Threaten the World': African Americans and the US Empire..

Rami George Khouri
Khouri knows the Middle East like few other journalists. As the Editor-at-Large of The Daily Star in Beirut, Lebanon, he reports from ground zero of the conflict as it unfolds. A Palestinian-Jordanian, educated in both the Middle East and the US, he is a widely respected international political columnist. He travels from the Middle East to offer current and fresh reports and analysis on what is happening beyond "the green zones."

Available Programs
  • The US a good Umpire: Understanding America's role in the middle east using the rules of baseball
  • What has broken down? The perils and promise of communication between the Arab world, the middle east
  • Ethics and philosophy of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish relations: a full circle viewpoint.
  • Truths and untruths about the Middle East in American Media.
  • A view from the Arab world: A fair, accurate, detailed perspective of the US.
  • All people are Equal: Its in the gospels, Koran, the Torah, the UN Charter and the baseball rule book.

Robert Kuttner
Robert Kuttner is a leading political economist, speaker and author who seeks to broaden the public debate on how to achieve a prosperous and fair economy.

Available Programs
  • Obama's Challenge: The Promise and Perils of the Obama Presidency.
  • The Challenge of Rescuing the Financial System.
  • Restoring America as a Middle Class Society.
  • Globalisation and the Good Society.
  • A new Deal for America's youth.


Gerald Levin
Gerald M. Levin, until May of 2002, was the Chairman and CEO of Time Warner Inc., at that time the world's largest media and entertainment company, with industry-leading businesses in publishing and news, cable networks, filmed entertainment, cable systems, music and interactive services.

Available Programs

  • Globalization and Corporate Social Responsibility.
  • Management as a Humanist Art.
  • Media and Entertainment.
  • Spirituality and the human condition.


Rosario Marin
Rosario Marin, former Treasurer of the United States, firmly believes that "of him to whom much is given, much is expected." She has served as the highest-ranking Latina in the Bush Administration and the first U.S. Treasurer born outside of the country.

Available Programs

  • Advocating for the rights of People with Disabilities.
  • Financial Independance: A national Problem; An individual Solution.
  • Self Empowerment: When challenges become Opportunities.
  • The Life story of an immigrant that made US History.
  • Turning Obstacles into launching pads- from self doubt to self empowerment.

Jack McGuire
Jack McGuire served as interim President and CEO of the American Red Cross from December 13, 2005 – May 28, 2007. He will continue to serve as Executive Vice President of Biomedical Services, the position he assumed in March 2004, through July 15, 2007.

Available Programs
  • Strategic Leadership,Change management and culture change.
  • Corporate Governance and Ethics: What could they have done differntly.
  • Turnaround Management.
  • Succession Planning.
  • Disaster Preparedness: Things you can do to avoid major losses in disaster.

Aaron McGruder
Creator of "The Boondocks" comic strip and animated series, McGruder is a young, fresh, and outspoken political satirist who dispenses social commentary with subversive humor. In his insightful presentation, "Negrology, the State of Black America," he demystifies all aspects of the truth about where African Americans are today and peers into the future of where they will be tomorrow.

Available Programs
  • Because I know you don't read the newspapers.
  • A right to be hostile.
  • The ethics of dissent.
  • The Politics of the Boondocks.

Rigoberta Menchu-Tum
Menchu-Tum's passionate efforts for simple and basic human rights for the indigenous and aboriginal Indians of Guatemala have established her as one of the premier advocates of peace. Her work has gained international attention, improved human rights, and earned her the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize.

Available Programs
  • Culture of Peace.
  • Human Rights: Justice and the Fight Against Impurity.
  • Identity and Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Judith Miller
Author and Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent at The New York Times, Miller writes about national security issues, with special emphasis on the Middle East, terrorism, and weapons of mass destruction. A remarkable speaker, Miller balances the frightening issues we need to face with hope for the future.

Available Programs

  • Ethica and Journalism: Does the right to know Trump the Right to Security?
  • First Amendment Threats, Growing Government Secrecy, what it means to the Average Citizen.
  • Is Journalism Failing us?
  • The Tenuous state of the third estate in our time.
  • US Foreign Policy.
  • Islamic Militency in the Middle East.
  • National Security.

Larry Miller
More that just a brilliant comedic actor who has appeared in Seinfeld and Pretty Woman, Miller is also a contributing humorist for The Weekly Standard where he displays his true colors as a political everyman. He says the things everyone wants to say about politics and American life in his book, Spoiled Rotten America: Outrages of Contemporary Life.

Available Programs
  • Its not Left of Right: Its up or Down.
  • Saying things everybody is thinking: The political everyman Looking for peace of mind.
  • Spoiled rotten America: Outrages of Contemporary Life.

Kathy Najimy
Rarely do we encounter an actress with such a remarkable range of talents and scope of emotion than that of Najimy. Seen in over 20 films such as Sister Act and The Wedding Planner, she is an AIDS activist and enthusiastic supporter of women and animal rights, and choice.

Available Programs
  • Advocating for Rights of Girls and Woman.
  • Women supporting Each other Locally and Globally.
  • Women and Body Image.
  • Reproductive Rights.
  • AIDS.
  • Gay and Lesbian Rights.
  • Violence against women and Girls.
  • Feminism..

Mark Anthony Neal
Dr. Mark Anthony Neal is Associate Professor of American Studies at University of Texas at Austin. He holds a Doctorate in American Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo. A native of the "Boogie Down" Bronx, Neal's work has appeared in The Washington Post, Emerge Magazine, The Chicago Herald, Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, Callaloo, SOULS, The Journal of Popular Music Studies, The Journal of Popular Music and Society, and The Village Voice.

Available Programs
  • Ms Fat Booty and the Black Male Feminist: Gender and Hip Hop.
  • What are the real reasons for the Attacks on Hip Hop.
  • Songs in the Key of Black Life: From Jazz to R&B.

Dr. Sherwin Nuland
Renowned surgeon and author of the monumentally successful books, 'How We Live and How We Die', and the upcoming 'The Art of Aging: A Doctor's Prescription for Well-Being'. Dr. Nuland continues to contribute greatly to the medical world. He offers a unique perspective on healthy aging and medical ethics, as well as an enlightening vision of the future of medicine.

Available Programs
  • Issues in Death and Dying.
  • Medicine in the Next 100 years.
  • The Human Body and the Human Spirit.
  • The roles of Myth in our Nations of the Body.

Tom Ricks
Seasoned by reporting on global military conflict for decades, Washington Post Pentagon Correspondent Ricks spent five tours of duty in Iraq to get to the nitty gritty in his New York Times bestseller 'Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq'. Ricks has also been recognized as a Pulitzer Prize winner for his coverage of the US military and counterterrorism during his lengthy tenure at The Wall Street Journal.

Available Programs
  • The War in Irag: Where we go from here.
  • Fiasco: The inside story of what went wrong in the Iraq war.
  • Bombs over Baghdad: What a long, strange war its been.
  • The long Journey Home: The road since 9/11.


Rev. Eugene Rivers
A firebrand preacher from the streets of Boston, Rev. Rivers is an eloquent and impassioned voice of faith. Through his activism and sheer force of conviction, he speaks the truth about fighting violence and crime, resurrecting hope for our children and ourselves.

Available Programs

  • Racial Politics of 2008 Presidential Campaign.
  • Black-on-Black Violence.
  • Marital Instability in Black Families.
  • Us Foreign Policy as it Relates to AIDS in Africa.
  • Trends in Islamic Presence in the Black Community.
  • Impact of China in Africa on US Foreign Policy.


Victoria Rowell
Emmy-nominated Rowell has been honoured with 12 NAACP Image Awards and is a staunch advocate for foster children. Her recent memoir, 'The Women Who Raised Me', reveals the transformational power of mentoring, love, art, and womanhood that inspires and empowers women and families.

Available Programs

  • My story: how art saves lives.
  • The importance of philanthropy and Charity.
  • Humanitarianism and its importance of the world today.
  • Foster care and adoption/domestic and global opportunities..

Ms. Lisa See
Best-selling author of the extraordinary New York Times bestseller, 'Snow Flower and the Secret Fan', See crafts highly praised works resplendent with fluid language, engrossing portrayals, and rich universal themes. Her newest book is Peony in Love, an unforgettable journey of love, destiny, desire, and sorrow.

Available Programs
  • My Bi-racial, Bi-cultural family.
  • Writing as a Craft: The Basic Human Need to communicate and tell our stories.

Aaron McGruder
Creator of "The Boondocks" comic strip and animated series, McGruder is a young, fresh, and outspoken political satirist who dispenses social commentary with subversive humor. In his insightful presentation, "Negrology, the State of Black America," he demystifies all aspects of the truth about where African Americans are today and peers into the future of where they will be tomorrow.

Available Programs
  • Because I know you don't read the newspapers.
  • A right to be hostile.
  • The ethics of dissent.
  • The Politics of the Boondocks.

Rachel Simmons
Simmons is the author of The New York Times bestseller 'Odd Girl Out, the first book to explore the phenomenon of bullying between girls - just as harmful as boys, but harder to recognize'. The Founder and Director of The Girls’ Leadership Institute, she is a highly sought-after consultant to schools all over the country.

Available Programs
  • Odd Girl Our: The hidden culture of aggression in Girls.
  • Odd Girl Speaks Out: Girls rite about Bullies, Cliques, Popularity and jealousy.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu
A Nobel Peace Laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu served as South Africa's voice of conscience during its long struggle against apartheid, soothing the spirits and rallying the hearts of his people as head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. As a highly regarded and inspirational keynote speaker, he continues to speak out for the causes of justice, peace, and reconciliation throughout the world.

Available Programs
  • OCrying in the wilderness: The struggle for justice in South Africa.
  • Bridging the Chasm between Black and White.
  • Africa's rebirth.
  • The hunger for transcendence: The search for spiritual values in today's world.

Colson Whitehead
A critically lauded, award-winning voice, Whitehead has been heralded as a promising young author to watch by Publishers Weekly. Recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Pulitzer Prize finalist for J'ohn Henry Days', his brilliant collection provides an articulate view of race, culture, and class today. Recipient of the MacArthur Foundation "genius award" given to scholars, artists, and others to free them to pursue their work, Whitehead has been praised for writing novels with inventive plots that weave American folklore and history into the stories.

Available Programs
  • Legend and History, Black and White.
  • Weaving History and American Folklore in Fiction.

Armstrong Williams
Most recognized conservative voice in America. Entrepreneur and third-generation Republican. Host of "The Right Side with Armstrong Williams".

Available Programs
  • Civil Rights and Relations: From a conservative viewpoint.
  • Provocative and refreshing: Examining issues close to America's heart.
  • Morality and the media.

Mariane Pearl
Pearl is a unique and versatile award-winning journalist who has written 'A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl'. A gripping and profound narrative of her experience and the pursuit of those who captured and killed her husband, Daniel Pearl, the South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal. In 2007, A Mighty Heart, starring Angelina Jolie as Mariane was released on the big screen. In a moving and uplifting presentation, Mariane relays a message of courage as a tribute to her husband’s life and the values and ideals which they shared. While terrorists did take Daniel from her, they could not make her fearful enough to abandon their principles of hope for the future.

Available Programs
  • A mighty heart: The brave life and death of my husband Danny Pearl.
  • Fighting Violence: Open up a dialogue.

Kathleen Turner
Considered one of the premiere American actresses, Turner has broadened her starring roles to include civil liberties activist who remains passionate about changing the current social climate in America to one that respects women’s health choices. She also tells it like it is in her frank, funny, irreverent, and inspiring memoir, 'Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love and Leading Roles'.

Available Programs
  • Respecting woman's health choices.

Malaak Compton-Rock
Malaak Compton-Rock began her career in the public relations and special event fields. Her professional life started in the entertainment industry where she contributed to many successful movie and record release campaigns and projects for clients including Eddie Murphy, The Essence Awards, and HBO. As wife of Chris Rock, Compton-Rock is also involved in many other humanitarian endeavors, including her own philanthropic organization, The Angelrock Project.

Available Programs
  • Renewing the Inner Spirit.
  • Finding Balance in Life.
  • Raising Giving children in a Global World.
  • Successfully blending a Family and a professional life.

Jonah Edelman
One of the most inspiring leaders of his generation and one of the country’s leading voices for children, Edelman is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Stand for Children. In his inspirational presentation he teaches advocacy skills to those who work with at-risk populations. By pioneering innovative strategies for advocacy, he galvanizes the next generation to stand for children.

Available Programs
  • Making a Bigger Impact for Children: A new model for Child advocacy.
  • Education Reform and Innovation: Equipping students to succeed in the Global Economy.
  • From good to great: Creating a higher Performing Organization.
  • What works: Identifying and supporting children's' programs that make the greatest impact.


Dr. James Gilligan
Psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School. Author of 'Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic'. Known for his insight into the psychology of crime and punishment and the prevention of violent behaviour.

Available Programs

  • Violent Children: An American crisis.
  • Understanding the Epidemic of Youth Violence.
  • Crime and Punishment.
  • Apocalyptic Fundamentalism, Terrorism and suicide bombers.
  • Political and economic causes of violent crime in the US.

Robin Karr-Morse
Co-Author of "Ghosts From the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence", which presents compelling evidence that violent behaviour in children is fundamentally linked to abuse and neglect that occurs in the first three years of life. Licensed therapist and a lecturer with the Brazelton Seminar Faculty.

Available Programs
  • Ghosts fro the nursery: Tracing the roots of violence.
  • Building healthy kids not just fixing broking ones.


Dr. Penelope Leach
Psychologist and leading child development expert. Host of Lifetime Television's "Your Baby & Child with Penelope Leach". Among her critically acclaimed books are "Children First" and her recently updated "Your Baby & Child".

Available Programs

  • Parenting in the 21st Century. Children First.

Judith Levine
After 30 years as a journalist, activist, and author, Levine became environmentally motivated to cut her consumerism back to the basics. She spent one year buying only the necessities of life, and then penned her experiences in the memoir Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping..

Available Programs
  • Not Buying it:Frugal, Fun and freeing – Lessons from my year without shopping.
  • Changing Budgets, Changing Values: How the recession might make life better.
  • Youth Sexuality: What we fear and what we ought to fear.
  • Still there: What my fathers alzheimers taught me about love, family and personhood.
  • Children's sexuality and pleasure: Do we dare say the words?

Sonia Manzano
Those who grew up learning their ABC's with Big Bird, Bert and Ernie, Kermit and the Cookie Monster will immediately recognize Manzano as the bilingual "Maria" on Sesame Street. Manzano attributes her appeal to the fact that she acts the same toward children as she does toward adults - honestly and directly. She is the author of No Dogs Allowed! and was selected by the General Mills initiative “Spoonfuls of Stories” to encourage childhood literacy. As part of the Sesame Street writing team, she has won 15 Emmys, and continues to pen scripts for children’s programs as well as for literary ventures.

Available Programs
  • One, Two, Three who put Latins on TV.
  • Sesame Street and the Role and Responsiblities of Childrens Televisions.

Susan B. Neuman
Dr. Susan B. Neuman is currently a visiting professor at Georgetown University and a Professor in Educational Studies at the University of Michigan. She recently served as the U.S. Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education, under President George W. Bush. In this role, Dr. Neuman was responsible for the implementation of Reading First, Early Reading First, and assessment and accountability regulations and guidelines for states throughout the country.

Available Programs
  • Nurturing Knowledge: Building a Foundation for School Success by linking early Literacy to Math, Science and Art.

Dr. Eli Newberger
Dr. Newberger, a leading figure in the movement to improve the protection and care of children, is renowned for his ability to bring together good sense and science on the main issues of family life. A pediatrician and author of many influential works on child abuse, he teaches at Harvard Medical School and founded the Child Protection Team and the Family Development Program at Children's Hospital in Boston..

Available Programs
  • Building character in boys (and girls): What parents and teaches need to know.
  • The five essentials of character development.
  • Domestic Violence and Child Abuse: Current knowledge and controversy.
  • The changing american family.
  • Evaluating Character in Business and Professional Life.

Summer Rayne Oakes
Eco-model and author of 'Style, Naturally, the first global guide to sustainable beauty and fashion'. Summer Rayne Oakes is one of the new Discovery Channel’s Planet Green eco-lifestyle channel's resident experts and host. As a model, she has dedicated her career to "cause-related modeling," or working with more environmentally and socially-conscious companies and brands, which has earned her the moniker of "The Eco-Model.".

Available Programs
  • Greenfluentials: The Conscious Cultural Conoisseur.
  • Like for Real!!! Tapping into Teens, Tweens and Twenty somethings (TTT)
  • ECOFASHION 101: A conscious curriculum with style.
  • Sustainable Development and Design: Operation Africa.
  • Get off your Ass! Turn coach potatoes in to Community Heroes through effective media and Entertainment.
  • Everyone looks good in green: Getting involved with green collar jobs.
  • Generation Misunderstood: How Generation Y is solving todays Environmental Dilemmas.

Roscoe Orman
Orman is best known for his long running portrayal of 'Gordon' on the highly acclaimed children's television series, Sesame Street. A native of New York City, Orman has a long and distinguished list of theatre credits.

Available Programs
  • Sesame Street and its impact on children's television.
  • Multiculturalism in American Theatre, Film and Television.
  • Motivating Today's Youth towards Social Activism..

Dr. William Pollack
Author of the bestseller, 'Real Boys', Dr. Pollack brings innovative insight to both workplace and family relationships. An expert in motivating professionals by understanding the hidden psychology behind outward behaviour, Pollack addresses the real problems behind power struggles on the job, generating genuine leadership capacities, resolving gender tensions, and creating productive team environments.

Available Programs
  • Listening to Boys voices.
  • The Power of Mothers/The new role of Fathers.
  • School and workplace Violence.
  • The National Crisis of Boyhood in America.

Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith
Considered one of the foremost authorities on violence, Dr. Prothrow-Stith achieved prominence as one of the first to view violence as a public health crisis. As Associate Dean and Professor of Public Health Practice at Harvard School of Public Health, she believes it is our national obligation to stem the tide of this epidemic by intervening with prevention and education.

Available Programs
  • The Media's impact on Children, Families and Society.
  • Fathers: The Unique Role and Power of the Paternal Presence in the Lives of Children.
  • American Paternal Dilemmas: Time Standards, Values and Guilt.
  • The power of early experience on the development of children.
  • The children's real perspective on Divorce, the process and the people.

Ms. Robin Raskin
Raskin has been translating technology into consumer friendly terms for more than 25 years. Today, as a writer, new media consultant, and speaker she spends a great deal of her time focusing on family life in a digital world. She is the author of six books about parenting in the digital age, for publishers including Random House, Simon and Schuster and Hyperion. Her most recent book, 'A Parents’ Guide to College Life' provides parents with practical answers to 180 “must ask” questions.

Available Programs
  • Family life in a digital world and what you can do about it.
  • A parents guide to college life.

Victor Rivas Rivers
Born in Cuba, Rivers came to the US at the age of two, endured horrific child abuse and witnessed domestic violence at the hands of his father, which he chronicles in his New York Times bestseller, A Private Family Matter. An actor, athlete, and advocate, Rivers is the national spokesperson for the National Network to End Domestic Violence.

Available Programs
  • Domestic Violence: It is everyone's issue.
  • A survival toolbox: Hope Empowerment and Transformation.
  • Crossing boarders: Lessons of a Latino man.
  • Giving back: You an make a difference.
  • I am the child that the village helped raise.
  • A public family matter: What all families can do to create a safer, more peaceful world.

Betty Williams
In 1976, Williams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to help end the decades of violence that permeated Northern Ireland. As President of the World Centres of Compassion for Children, she works with other fellow Nobel Laureates in trouble spots throughout the world where the cause of peace and safety of children is at risk.

Available Programs
  • Creating Safe Havens for the World's Children.

Lee Woodruff
She and her husband, Bob Woodruff, are the authors of In an Instant: A Family’s Journey of Love and Healing, The New York Times best-selling book about their family’s difficult journey during Bob’s critical injury in Iraq while anchoring a broadcast for ABC News. A frank and compelling account of how their lives came together, were blown apart, and then were miraculously put together again, In an Instant shares how they persevered with grit, but also with humour, through intense trauma and fear.

Available Programs
  • Life changes in an instant.
  • Superwoman is a myth.
  • Parenting through a crisis.
  • The unsung hero - the caregiver. Perfectly imperfect - A life in progress.