Ijeoma Oluo is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race. Her work on race has been featured in the New York Times and the Washington Post. She has twice been named to the Root 100, and she received the 2018 Feminist Humanist Award from the American Humanist Association. She lives in Seattle, Washington.

Minda Harts is the CEO of The Memo LLC, a career development platform for women of color, a Professor of Public Service at NYU Wagner, and the author of The Memo. She has been featured on MSNBC's Morning Joe and Fast Company, and speaks at Fortune 500 companies including Microsoft, Levi's, and Google. In 2020 she was named a LinkedIn Top Voice, and in 2018, she was named one of 25 Emerging Innovators by American Express. She hosts the podcast Secure the Seat, and lives in New York City.

Arianna Davis is the senior editorial and strategy director for Oprah Daily. Davis previously worked at Refinery29 and Us Weekly, and has written for New York, Glamour, and PopSugar Latina. She has also served as an entertainment and culture expert for Access Hollywood and TLC documentaries. She lives in New York City.  
 

Julia Serano  is the author of four books, including the acclaimed modern classic Whipping Girl. Her writing has been published in the New York Times,  the Guardian, TIME, Salon, Out, and Bitch. Serano holds a PhD in biochemistry from Columbia University. She lives in Oakland, California.  

Dawn Dais is the author of six other guides to pregnancy and parenting, including The Sh!t No One Tells You About Pregnancy and The Sh!t No One Tells You About Toddlers. She lives in Sacramento, California.

Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez is a writer and activist working to shift the national conversation on race. She is the founder of Latina Rebels, which boasts over 350,000 followers across social media platforms, and she has appeared on NPR, Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Huffington Post Latino Voices, Telemundo, and Univision. She was invited to the Obama White House in 2016 and has spoken at over 100 universities in the past three years, including Princeton, Dartmouth, and Wesleyan. She earned her Masters of Divinity from Vanderbilt University and lives in Nashville, Tennessee.