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 | co-creator and co-star of 2 Dope Queens author of NYT Best Seller You Can't Touch My Hair Vulture.com, Essence, and Esquire have named one of the top comedians has appeared on Late Night w/ Seth Meyers, Last Call with Carson Daly, Conan, and Broad City
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 | director of award-winning short Nain Rouge 2014 Film/Theatre Kresge Fellow writer, director and producer American Prophet member of Film Fatales Detroit
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 | author of Witches, Sluts, Feminists founding editrix of Slutist, a sex positive feminist website lecturer at The New School
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 | host of MTV News web serires Decoded former writer and contributor for The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore on Comedy Central featured on MTV, The New York Times, NPR, Ebony Magazine and The BBC
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 | Jamin Warren, Video Game Artist & Developer co-founder and chief executive at Kill Screen, digital media company focusing on video games and culture former culture reporter for WSJ advisor to MoMA's Dept. of Architecture & Design Department speaker at SXSW, NYFF, XOXO hosted PBS webseries Game/Show
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 | Alyasha Owerka-Moore, Designer co-founder of "Phat Farm" PF-Flyers Brand Historian founder of Alphanumeric and Fiberops Brand
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 | CEO and Editor-in-Chief of LGBTQ organizations Everyone Is Gay and My Kid Is Gay author of This is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids host and producer of First Person, a video series on gender and sexuality from PBS Digital and WNET
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| lecturer at Northeastern University founder of Quirky Black Girls works with Octavia E. Butler at Legacy Network
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 | listed in Dazed's 100 visionary talents shaping youth culture in 2016 designs "My Friend Tyler" clothing line works with Miley Cyrus' Happy Hippie Foundation contributor to MTV and Rookie Magazine
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| Hari Kondabolu, Comedian creator and star of full-length documentary The Problem with Apu NYT has called him "one of the most exciting political comics in stand-up today" created standup album Waiting for 2042 NYU's APA Institute's "Artist in Residence" 2014-15 standup on the Late Show with David Letterman, Conan, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Live at Gotham and John Oliver's New York Standup Show
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| distinguished Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA author of The Trouble With Black Boys: And Other Reflections on Race, Equity and the Future of Public Education commentor for CNN, MSNBC, NPR featured on C-SPAN.org, This American Life has written for NYT, The Nation, Washington Post
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 | Bayeté Ross Smith, Artist educator at NYU, Parson, and The New School exhibited with the San Francisco Arts Commision, the Brooklyn Museum, MoMA PS1 showcased at Sundace Film Festival for Along The Way and Question Bridge
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| recurring actor on Law and Order and Family Guy has attended Montreal Just for Laughs Festival, the Toyota Comedy Festival and The Marshalls Women in Comedy Festival co-creator and executive producer of the reality competition "Dance Your A** Off" activist and inspirational speaker for under-represented youth, women's rights mixed race and Asian American causes
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| Associate Professor of Sociology at NYU member of U.S. Census Committee popularized concept of trans-racial identity in Dolezal/NAACP controversy
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 | Soledad O'Brien, Journalist, Documentarian & Executive Producer anchor and producer for NBC, CNN, HBO founder of Starfish Media Group NABJ's Journalist of the Year awarded multiple Emmy, Peabody, and Alfred I. duPont awards
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| has performed in all five boroughs of New York City and a number of colleges has collaborated with rapper Awkwafina, punk band PWR BTTM and spoken word duo DarkMatter created solo show FRESH OFF THE BANANA BOAT which sold out at Dixon Place's HOT! Festival
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| creator of The Whiteness Project his film Two Towns of Jasper won numerous awards including a Peabody Award, duPont Award, and an Anthony Radziwill Documentary Achievement Award exhibited at The Met, MoMA, Smithsonian
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 | Chuck Berry's go-to pianist published author on race appeared on Letterman Show, GMA, CNN for his efforts to improve race relations with members of the Maryland Ku Klux Klan
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 | writer and star of MTV'S Decoded stand-up set The Meltdown at the NerdMelt Showroom featured on podcast for Cave Comedy Radio
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 | Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia Law School co-founder of African-American Policy Forum coined the terms Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality featured in NYT, Huffington Post, Washington Post
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 | author of New York Times bestseller, The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table James Beard Award-winning journalist written for NYT, Slate, Washington Post
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| performed stand-up comedy on Last Call with Carson Daly, The Arsenio Hall Show, Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen and Wanda Sykes Presents Herlarious plays Janet Fung in the Coen Brothers' film Inside Llewyn Davis played roles on Parks and Recreation, Bones, Pretty Little Liars, New Girl, and Inside Amy Schumer
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| produced award-winning documentary Can invitee of community gatherings on Asian American mental health sponsored by the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (WHIAAPI) executive board member of Asian American Women Media Makers
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 | Christopher Punongbayan, Activist recognitions from Ford, Strauss, & Gerbode Foundations for his work with Asian American Advancing Justice serves on Community Advisory Panel of KQED served as Vice-Chair of the San Francisco Immigrant Rights Commission
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| Shukree Tilghman, Filmmaker well-known for his work on 94 Feet, More Than a Month and The March@50 activist who questions Black History Month and aims to expose African-American history
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 | Kelly Anderson, Filmmaker director of Brooklyn Film Festival's Audience Award, My Brooklyn Emmy-nominated works shown at Sundance, Tribeca and on PBS
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 | has appeared on Nightly Show, Gotham Comedy Live, Comic View, One Mic Stand and Celebrities Undercover featured in NYT, O Magazine, Black Enterprise, Time Out NY and Brooklyn Magazine involved with the New York Comedy Fesitval, Brooklyn Comedy Festival, Hoboken Comedy Festival, SoCal Comedy Festival and American Black Film Festival Comedy Contest
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| Derald Wing Sue, Psychologist Professor of Psychology and Education at Columbia University published micoagressions scholar, including such works as Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation co-founder of AAPA (Asian American Psychological Association) served on Clinton's Advisory Board on Race
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 | creator of photo project Racial Microaggressions featured in Daily Mail, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed
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