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Nikil Saval is a Pennsylvania state senator and the author of Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace.

Allissa V. Richardson is a journalist and an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Southern California.

Rosanne Somerson is president of the Rhode Island School of Design.

Kat Vellos is a UX designer, facilitator, and connection coach.

Nina Cooke John is founder and principal of Studio Cooke John, and also teaches at Parsons School of Design.

Maurice Woods is a principal designer at Microsoft and the founder and executive director of Inneract Project.

Lisa Nakamura is the founding director of the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan.

Kelly Walters is the founder of the multidisciplinary studio Bright Polka Dot and an assistant professor of communications design at Parsons School of Design.

Ari Melenciano is an artist, creative technologist, educator, and the founder of Afrotectopia, a social institution fostering interdisciplinary innovation.

Maxwell Anderson is the president of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation and Community Partnership.

Deanna Van Buren is the co-founder of Designing Justice Designing Spaces, a nonprofit working to end mass incarceration by building an alternative infrastructure.

Maurice Cherry is the host of Revision Path and the principal and creative director at Lunch.

Janelle Monáe is a singer, songwriter, actor, and producer.

Paola Antonelli is senior curator of the department of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art.

Elizabeth Alexander is president of the Mellon Foundation.

Mark Bloomfield is a jewelry designer and the founder of Electrobloom. Shaun Borstrock is associate dean for business and innovation at the University of Hertfordshire.

James Rhee is executive chair and CEO of the fashion brand Ashley Stewart as well as the founder and president of the investment firm FirePine Group.

Daniella Zalcman is a documentary photographer and the founder of Women Photograph.

Courtney Cogburn is a professor at the Columbia School of Social Work and the co-creator of 1000 Cut Journey.

George Gendron is writer in residence at MIT’s integrated design and management program. Patrick Mitchell runs Modus Operandi Design.