Adam Falkner is a poet, musician, educator, and race and equity strategist. Much of his work studies intersectional themes of race, gender, queer life and social justice education. He was also a featured performer at President Barack Obama's Grassroots Ball at the 2009 presidential inauguration. Falkner shares his Brief but Spectacular take on performing privilege and forgiveness.

Kimiko Hahn, a professor at Queens College, City University of New York, is the author of 10 books of poetry and the winner of numerous awards. She shares her Brief But Spectacular take on the power of poetry.

Dr. Donna Adams-Pickett is a practicing OB-GYN in Georgia, a state that’s known as a maternal care desert. She’s run a women’s health center there for more than two decades. She shares her Brief But Spectacular take on a career spent serving women’s health needs.

Rainesford Stauffer is a freelance writer and Kentuckian. She is the author of “An Ordinary Age,” and her upcoming book, “All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive,” looks to examine and dismantle the concepts of ambition and burnout in young adults. Stauffer shares her Brief But Spectacular take on rethinking ambition.