Ava DuVernay is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and more. She is best known for being director and executive producer for “Selma”, director of “A Wrinkle in Time”, and director, producer, and writer for “13th”. She studied at the University of California, Los Angeles and graduated with a double BA in English literature and African-American studies. Prior to working... read full bio
Austin J. Franklin is a renowned leadership expert, author, and keynote speaker. He is also Good-Natured Life's co-founder and CEO. The company was established in 2015 when he was 20 years old and a junior at Hampden-Sydney College. The mission of the company is to spread kindness, friendliness, and patience (KFP) and to uplift minds across the world. Franklin... read full bio
Speaking, writing and media production professional Austin Channing Brown offers inspiring leadership on racial justice in America. She is the Executive Producer of the web series The Next Question and the author of the New York Times best-selling book I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, which was chosen as a Reese Witherspoon Bookclub choice. Her lectures and seminars... read full bio
Fashion designer, activist, and well-known creative director from Canada, Aurora James has made a huge impact on the fashion industry and social justice movements. She established Brother Vellies in 2013, a clothing line that honors traditional African design methods and practices. James has pioneered the cause of marginalized voices because of his goal to advance diversity and representation in the industry.... read full bio
Augusto Lopez-Claros is an international economist who has been the Director of Global Indicators and Analysis at the World Bank, and the former Chief Economist and Director of the Global Competitiveness Program at the World Economic Forum. Lopez-Claros has previously studied in England as well as the United States and earned his degree in Mathematical Statistics from Cambridge University before... read full bio
Author Augusten Burroughs is well known for his best-selling memoir, Running with Scissors, which details the events of his tumultuous adolescent years after his poet-mother sends him to live with her unorthodox psychiatrist. The memoir spent eight weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers list. Burroughs other works include a novel, Sellevision, an additional memoir detailing his time in... read full bio
Audrey Tang is the Digital Minister of Taiwan and a software programmer who is best known for revitalizing the computer languages Perl and Haskell. Tang was considered a child prodigy at the age of five as Tang was reading classical literature and went on to be performing advanced mathematics before six years old and was learning computer programming before eight.... read full bio
Audrey Gelman is an American entrepreneur and political staffer who is founder of the women’s co-working space and social club, The Wing. She is also known for being the inspiration for the character Marnie on the HBO television series “Girls”. Gelman studied at Oberlin College but left after two years to work on Hillary Clinton’s campaign for U.S. President. After... read full bio
Audrey and Nicole Nourse are identical twins who have won the NCAA National Volleyball Championship twice. They are also powerful motivational speakers with a distinctive take on collaboration. Both of the top student-athletes are enrolled at the University of Southern California and are expected to become household names in their respective sports. They have won the NCAA National Volleyball Championship... read full bio
Audie Cornish is an American journalist who is the co-host of NPR’s award-winning newsmagazine, All Things Considered. Cornish was raised in Randolph, Massachusetts, and she went on to earn her degree at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. While studying at the University of Massachusetts, Cornish began interning with NPR and also worked with the campus radio station. Before working as co-host... read full bio
Atul Butte is a researcher in biomedical informatics and biotechnology entrepreneur. He has been head of the Institute for Computational Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, and has been the executive director of clinical informatics for the University of California’s Health Sciences and Services. Butte has earned his A.B. with Honors in Computer Science from Brown University... read full bio
Aswath Damodaran teaches corporate finance and stock valuation at the Stern School of Business at New York University. The most well-known works on valuation, corporate finance, and investment management that Damodaran has written are used by academics and professionals. He also provides extensive data for valuation needs. He is the author of multiple works on investing, corporate finance, and equity... read full bio
Mike Mullane was selected as a Mission Specialist in 1978 in the first group of Space Shuttle Astronauts. He completed three space missions and logged 356 hours in space aboard the Shuttles Discovery and Atlantis before retiring from NASA and the Air Force in 1990.Since his retirement from NASA, Colonel Mike Mullane has written an award-winning children's book, Liftoff! An... read full bio
The Vision Within Kimberly Clark God's Love Always Magnifies (TM) #GLAM speaking engagements. AKL supports and encourages people to help them fulfill their potential and make the most of their lives. Kimberly's passionate motivational speaking provides the drive and guidance her clients and audience need to improve their careers, relationships, and lives. Topical discussions will target their: • Skills and Dreams. • Refocus... read full bio
American actor, writer, and director Asia Kate Dillon is the first person to portray a non-binary character on television. Personally identifying as non-binary, Asia is well known for their role as white supremacist Brandy Epps on the hit Netflix show Orange is the New Black. They are also praised for their role in the Showtime series Billions, on which they... read full bio
Ashwin Navin is the CEO and co-founder of SambaTV, a content recommendation software for SmartTV apps. Built directly into smart televisions, the engine provides interactive television through personalization. Previously, as president and co-founder of BitTorrent, Inc., Navin was the face of the company, responsible for marketing the companys products and bringing it into the mainstream. Networking with movie industry executives... read full bio
Ashly Perez is a Cuban-Filipino-Korean-American writer, actress, director, and producer. Perez has gone viral with her YouTube videos and was the creator for the Buzzfeed Violet channel, which has over 3 million subscribers and over a billion views. Perez writes the videos and uses her own humor, which has gained a big audience and gained her a lot of popularity.... read full bio
Christian life coach and public speaker Ashley Varner. I assist women all across the nation in transforming their lives by bringing their thoughts, feelings, and deeds into line with God's Word. She clung for years to restrictive ideas that over time came to influence my opinions. I'll never be able to quit yelling at my kids. I'll always be overweight.... read full bio
Born to a single, teenage mother, placed in Florida's foster care system by the age of three and ultimately being adopted from a Children's Home at the age of twelve, Ashley Rhodes-Courter is the quintessential American success story. She later chronicled her harrowing life story in the New York Times Bestseller Three Little Words, which is currently being adapted into... read full bio
Ashley Reichheld is a highly successful person whose career as a best-selling book and knowledge in the area of trust are well known. She has acquired respect as a trust authority on a global scale thanks to her in-depth grasp of interpersonal interactions and trust dynamics. The motivation behind Reichheld's work has been her interest for examining the complexities of trust... read full bio
