Aída Hurtado, a social psychologist, is Luis Leal Endowed Chair and Professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on intersectional theory, educational achievement, and on racialized media representations. Her most recent book is Beyond Machismo: Intersectional Latino Masculinities (co-authored with Mrinal Sinha, UT Press, 2016). Dr. Hurtado has received the Women of Color Psychologies Award, the American Educational Research Association's SAGE Award for distinguished contributions to gender equity in education research, and the Outstanding Latino/a Faculty in Higher Education Award granted by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education.

Anna Holmes has written and edited for numerous publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek, and The New Yorker online. The founder of the popular website Jezebel.com and the editor of two books, she works as a columnist for the New York Times Sunday Book Review and as the editorial director of the digital and cable company Fusion. She lives in New York.

Bryonn Bain is Brooklyn's own prison activist, actor, author, hip hop theater innovator and spoken word poetry champion. His critically-acclaimed multimedia production LYRICS FROM LOCKDOWN (directed by Gina Belafonte) is a one-man show weaving together hip hop theater, spoken word poetry, blues, comedy, calypso and classical music to tell his unbelievable story of racial profiling and unjustified imprisonment. Having its world premiere at Harlem's National Black Theatre in 2013 (executive produced by Harry Belafonte), Bain plays 40 characters in this tour de force production which has been featured at The Apollo Theater, Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPACC), The Actor's Gang Theater, The Grammy Museum at LA Live, and sold-out on three continents worldwide. Bryonn's music, poetry and videos are available on LIFE AFTER LOCKDOWN: The Digital Mixtape, executive produced by legendary hip hop DJ Kool Herc. After developing courses linking RIkers Island correctional facility with Columbia University, and teaching the first hip hop and spoken word course at Harvard University, Bain launched the Prison Education Program at NYU to offer college degree opportunities in New York prisons. Bryonn is currently developing UCLA's prison education program at the California Institute for Women. Bringing arts, activism and education to prisons for over 25 years, his groundbreaking courses on hip hop, theater, spoken word poetry, police abuse and the prison crisis continue to impact youth at Rikers Island prison, Boys Town Detention Center, and those incarcerated at Wallkill and Sing Sing prisons.

Catherine Tinsley, Ph.D., is a professor of management at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, Faculty Director of the Georgetown University Women's Leadership Institute, Academic Director of Georgetown McDonough's Executive Master's in Leadership program, and a Senior Policy Scholar at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy. Tinsley is an expert on gender intelligent leadership, gender parity and workforce development, negotiations, and decision making. For the past two years, she participated in The World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland where she spoke about the role of confidence in women's economic empowerment. In 2012 and 2013, she partnered with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to study a decade of gender in the C-suite—researching how women fared relative to men in publicly traded companies from 2000-2010. Tinsley also has collaborated with the White House and U.S. State Department to execute a woman-to-woman mentorship summit and has partnered with the U.S. State Department and the Council of Women World Leaders to convene the first ever world-wide meeting of the Ministers of Women's Affairs. Her work has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals. She received her Master's and Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, and her BA in anthropology from Bryn Mawr College.

David Mensah's 21-year career has included 13 years in Executive Director positions, as well as 10 years as a youth and family counselor. Mr. Mensah has two BS degrees from Oregon State University, a Certificate in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Bridgeport and a M.Div. from Yale Divinity School. He has held faculty positions at Sacred Heart University, in Leadership Studies, at the University of Bridgeport, in Trauma Counseling, and currently holds an adjunct faculty position at Baruch College, in the School of Public Affairs.

Katina Sawyer, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at Villanova University in the Graduate Programs in Human Resource Development, in the Psychology department. During and after her graduate work, she worked as an independent consultant and for SHL, a global consulting firm, on the Optimization Services team. Her areas of expertise include leadership, diversity, and work-family conflict. Katina is the owner and operator of K. Sawyer Solutions, LLC, which offers consulting services in selection, assessment, performance management, training, and diversity/inclusion. Over the years, Katina has published numerous peer–reviewed articles and book chapters about leadership, diversity, and work-family conflict. She is the 2014 recipient of Villanova's Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award. She is also a 2014 recipient of the Women's Way Powerful Voice Award for her work on gender equality in the Philadelphia region. Katina holds a dual-Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Women's Studies from the Pennsylvania State University. She received her B.A. in Psychology from Villanova University.

Kieran Snyder is the CEO and Co-Founder of Textio. She holds a Ph.D. in computational linguistics and has previously held product and design leadership roles at Microsoft and Amazon. She has authored several studies on language, technology, and document bias. Prior to founding Textio, Kieran built a multifunctional team in analytics, program management, and design for Amazon's advertising organization. In her former product leadership roles at Microsoft, Kieran created a linguistic services platform for developers, introducing natural language processing capabilities to Windows developers for the first time. She also led a cross-company engineering effort for the native integration of Bing into Windows search. Kieran earned her doctorate in linguistics and cognitive science from the University of Pennsylvania and has published original research on gender bias in performance reviews and conversational interruptions in the workplace. Her work has appeared in Fortune, Re/code, Slate, and the Washington post.

Lisa Lahey is co-director of Minds At Work, a coaching and consulting firm serving businesses and institutions around the world, and on the faculty of the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. An expert in adult development and an experienced executive coach and educator, Lisa works with leaders and leadership teams in both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. With a doctorate from Harvard University in developmental psychology, she combines her expertise of individual development with a deep knowledge of organizational psychology and teamwork to design and teach leadership curriculum. For the past several years, she has served as a trusted advisor and executive coach to leaders in the private and public sectors worldwide, and currently leads the Personal Mastery program for aspiring public school superintendents at Harvard. Lahey and long-time collaborator Robert Kegan are credited with a breakthrough discovery of a hidden dynamic, the "immunity to change," which impedes personal and organizational transformation. Her work helps people to close the gap between their good intentions and behaviors. This work is now being used by executives, senior teams and individuals in business, governmental, and educational organizations in the United States, South America, Europe, and Asia. Her seminal books, How The Way We Talk Can Change The Way We Work (2001), and Immunity to Change (2009) have been published in over a dozen languages. Her latest book, An Everyone Culture, published by the Harvard Business Press, will be out this spring, 2016.

Meredith D. Clark believes that everyone has a story to tell. A recovering newspaper journalist, Meredith spends her days doing the tenure-track hustle of teaching, researching and service in the Mayborn School of Journalism at the University of North Texas. By night, she can be found on Twitter talking politics and live-tweeting her favorite Shondaland shows. She's living every new Ph.D.'s dream -- people are actually reading and citing her 2014 award-winning dissertation on Black Twitter. Meredith's research is centered at the intersection of race, media and power, and she's always on the lookout for meaningful and fun opportunities to collaborate.

Taylor's research focuses on understanding an important but understudied component of diversity and hierarchy management: the psychology of privilege, or how benefitting from inequity affects human beliefs and behavior. She explores the effects of privilege using diverse research methods, including lab experiments, field experiments, longitudinal approaches, and visual and cognitive tools. Taylor's work seeks to find ways to better manage advantaged group members and their involvement in inclusion efforts, which can help organizations achieve their diversity and equity goals. She is completing her degree at Stanford's GSB, and will be joining NYU Stern as an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations in summer 2016.

Valerie Purdie-Vaughns is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University and an instructor at Columbia Business School. She teaches Negotiations in the Graduate and Executive Education programs at Columbia Business School, and Mind, Culture and Brain in the Department of Psychology. In 2014, she was the recipient of the distinguished Columbia University Lenfest Award for excellent in teaching and mentoring. Dr. Purdie-Vaughns' research focuses on the psychology of identity in organizations. Her interests include diversity in schools and corporations, gender and power, understanding and closing achievement gaps, and implicit bias. Dr. Purdie-Vaughns has authored numerous publications and has been awarded several federal research grants. In 2015 she was awarded the prestigious Columbia University RISE grant for most cutting-edge research on stress and workplace culture. Her research has been featured in media outlets such as the New York Times, Fortune Magazine and Scientific American. Dr. Purdie-Vaughns currently serves as a consultant for a variety of organizations including corporate clients, educational institutions and non-profits. Select clients, past and present, include Goldman Sachs, Ernst & Young, Intel, Neuroleadership, American Physics Society-Nuclear Physics Division, and the Kapor Foundation for Social Change. Previously, Dr. Purdie-Vaughns served on the faculty at Yale University. She completed her doctoral work in psychology at Stanford University. She completed her undergraduate work at Columbia University and lettered in varsity basketball.

Bill Kahn, Ph.D., is Professor of Organizational Behavior at Boston University's Questrom School of Business. He received his BA in Psychology from Clark University and his doctorate in Psychology from Yale University. He has published numerous articles in organizational and management journals on topic ranging from instigating and reacting to change, creating healthy work relationships, and the nature of leadership and authority. Several decades ago he originated the concept of personal engagement at work, which has since given rise (much to his chagrin) to a huge survey and consulting business. In recent years Bill has specialized in the dynamics of caregiving organizations, about which he has published a book (Holding Fast: The struggle to create resilient caregiving organizations published by Routledge in 2005.) His recently published book is entitled The Ostrich Effect: Solving destructive patterns at work (Routledge, 2016). Bill has won several teaching awards and is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Management Education. He also hosted for three years a Boston-based NPR segment ("Dr. Bill") in which people called in seeking help with workplace relationships.