•
Ursula Burns, chief executive officer of Xerox •
Tracy Reese, fashion designer •
Jay-Z, musician, rap mogul •
Oprah Winfrey, media mogul •
Clarence Otis Jr., chief executive officer of Darden Restaurants • Ephren W. Taylor, chief executive officer of City Capital Corporations •
Janice Bryant Howroyd, entrepreneur • Ralph Gilles, president and CEO Dodge Brand •
Jamail Larkins, chief executive officer of Ascension Aircraft • Carla Harris, managing director in Global Capital Markets at Morgan Stanley •
Regina Benjamin, U.S. Surgeon General •
Will Allen, chief executive officer of Growing Power •
Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of American Cancer Society • Kathie-Ann Joseph, surgeon and breast cancer researcher/activist •
Lisa Cooper, professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health •
Helene Gayle, president and CEO of CARE USA • Seun Adebiyi, Olympic hopeful • Satira Streeter, clinical psychologist •
Treena Livingston Arinzeh, biomedical engineer • Risa Lavisso-Mourey, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation •
Bakari Sellers, Democratic member of South Carolina House of Representatives •
Anthony Woods, former Democratic candidate for U.S. Congress in California •
Artur Davis, Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives •
Melody Barnes, White House Director of the Domestic Policy Council •
Deval Patrick, Democratic Governor of Massachusetts •
Kamala Harris, District Attorney of San Francisco •
Eric Holder, U.S. Attorney General • Vernon Parker, Republican mayor of Paradise Valley, Arizona •
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, mayor of Baltimore, Maryland •
Kevin Johnson, mayor of Sacramento •
Beyoncé Knowles, singer • Shonda Rimes, executive producer of ''
Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice'' •
Will.i.am, co-founder of
Black Eyed Peas, musician and producer •
Drake, rapper •
Chiwetel Ejiofor, actor •
Gina Prince-Bythewood, film director • Charles King, Hollywood agent •
Darius Rucker, musician and country singer; formerly of
Hootie & the Blowfish •
Mary J. Blige, singer; anti-domestic violence activist •
Mo'Nique, actress and comedian •
Jason Moran, jazz musician and music historian •
Kara Walker, artist •
Malcolm Gladwell, author of
The Tipping Point •
Bill T. Jones, dancer and director of Broadway's
FELA! •
Wynton Marsalis, jazz musician •
Lynn Nottage, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright •
Kadir Nelson, children's book illustrator •
Kehinde Wiley, painter • Darin Atwater, composer/conductor •
Jessica Care Moore, poet, actor, publisher •
Charles Bolden, NASA Administrator; former space shuttle commander • Tony Hansberry, The Next Doogie Howser, created a breakthrough surgical stitch •
Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer at the Franklin Institute •
Lisa P. Jackson, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency •
James McLurkin, electrical engineer and robot specialist •
Jerome Ringo, president of the Apollo Alliance •
Beverly Wright, head of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice •
Robert Bullard, author and environmentalist •
Shelton Johnson, park ranger at Yosemite National Park • Agnes A. Day, associate professor of microbiology at Howard University •
Shani Davis, Olympic speed skater •
Michael Hill, general manager of the Florida Marlins baseball team •
James Stewart Jr., champion motocross driver •
Evander Kane, member of the Atlanta Thrashers NHL team •
LeBron James, member of the Cleveland Cavaliers NBA team •
Adrian Peterson, member of the Minnesota Vikings NFL team •
Allyson Felix, Olympic track and field athlete •
Candace Parker, member of the Los Angeles Sparks WNBA basketball team •
Serena Williams, professional tennis player •
Cheyenne Woods, golfer •
Wyclef Jean, musician and philanthropist •
Craig Watkins, Dallas District Attorney •
Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, New Jersey • Richard Buery Jr., president and chief executive officer of Children's Aid Society in New York •
Alysa Stanton, first female African-American rabbi •
Majora Carter, environmental justice advocate •
Shawna Rochelle Kimbrell, first African-American female fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force • Kari Fulton, national campus campaign coordinator for the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative • Yolanda Wimberly, assistant professor of clinical pediatrics, Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia •
Joshua DuBois, minister and head of the White House Office for Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships •
Tyra Banks, model and media entrepreneur •
Tyler Perry, producer/director • Christina Norman, chief executive officer of OprahWomensNetwork (OWN) •
Fred Mwangaguhunga, founder of Meditakeout.com •
Byron Pitts, correspondent for CBS News'
60 Minutes •
Roland Martin, journalist •
Steve Harvey Radio host, author •
David Drummond, SVP of corporate development and chief legal officer of Google •
Mary Spio, co-founder of Gen2MEDIA and digital media expert • Mara Schiavocampo,
NBC Nightly News digital correspondent •
Teresa King, first female commander at U.S. Army's Drill Sgt. School •
Freeman A. Hrabowski III, president of University of Maryland; education expert • Spirit Trickey, daughter of one of Little Rock 9, park ranger at Central High School Visitor Center •
Barrington Irving, pilot; founder of Experience Aviation •
Roland Fryer, professor of economics at Harvard University • Omo Moses, founder and executive director of Young Peoples Project •
Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute •
Tim King, founder of Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men in Chicago • Ashanti Johnson, assistant professor of Chemical Oceanography at College of Marine Science in St. Petersburg, FL • John Jackson, president and CEO of The Schott Foundation for Public Education == References ==