Carmen Perez

Carmen Perez is an award-winning civil and human rights leader and Chicana feminist. As President & CEO of The Gathering for Justice, an organization founded by the legendary Harry Belafonte, and co-founder of Justice League NYC, Carmen spearheaded impactful campaigns such as Free Meek Mill and Take a Knee with Colin Kaepernick. A National Co-Chair of the 2017 Women's March on Washington, she helped draw over 5 million people worldwide. Named among Fortune’s Top 50 World Leaders and TIME’s 100 Most Influential People, Carmen continues to advocate for justice and equality globally.

Rosario Dawson

Rosario is an “Actrivist”, Designer and Producer.

Dawson co-founded both VOTO LATINO, a civic engagement organization focused on educating and empowering a new generation of Latinx voters, and STUDIO ONE EIGHTY NINE a lifestyle artisan forward brand produced in Ghana celebrating African heritage. An outspoken activist for various causes, Dawson sits on the boards of V DAY, CANN, Jane Fonda’s Climate PAC, the SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN WOMENS HISTORY MUSEUM and most recently founded THE RIO DAWN FOUNDATION. She was last seen in the title role of AHSOKA and COMMON GROUND, a regenerative farming documentary championing our precious soil.

aja monet

aja monet is a Surrealist Blues Poet. She follows in the long legacy and tradition of poets participating and assembling in social movements. aja monet has collaborated across mediums and disciplines helping to shape and shift culture working with many internationally established artists, scholars, activists, and organizers. Her poems explore resistance, love, spirituality, and femininity. Her first full collection of poems entitled, my mother was a freedom fighter was nominated for a NAACP Image Award for Poetry and in 2019 she was awarded the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Award for Poetry. Monet's debut poetry album, when the poems do what they do (2023) was nominated for a Grammy Best Spoken Word Poetry Album.

Matt Post

Matt Post is a student at Yale Law School and gun safety activist. Matt helped lead gun violence prevention organization March For Our Lives: organizing in his community, speaking before the 700,000 protestors assembled at the original 2018 demonstration, building the organization's national grassroots chapter network, and then founding the group's legal advocacy arm, which brings the voices of survivors into the courts. He also served as a school board member in his hometown of Montgomery County, Maryland, where he fought to close racial and socioeconomic disparities in opportunity.

Aloe Blacc

Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Aloe Blacc, who is known for major hits such as “I Need A Dollar,” “The Man,” and “Wake Me Up,” pledged early in his career to use his music for positive social transformation. Aloe refers to his style of music as thematic, calling it "A.I.M." which stands for affirmation, inspiration, and motivation.

A recipient of RIAA diamond certification, his song “Wake Me Up” with Avicii, has reached over 2 billion streams on Spotify and YouTube respectively. Aloe is currently working on his next musical projects with a focus on amplifying the mission of non-profit organizations. 

In addition to music, Aloe is the founder of Major Inc., a biotech company focused on preventing future pandemics and infection from disease. With the help of accomplished PhD scientists, the company has conducted promising research to identify medicinal candidates that block viruses from cellular binding, entry, and replication.

Sean Pica

Sean Pica is the Executive Director of Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison, a non-profit organization that provides college education, life skills and reentry support to currently and formerly incarcerated people to help them make a positive impact on their own lives, their families and communities.

Hudson Link has more than 650 students enrolled annually in college degree granting programs across six prisons and has awarded more than 1,000 college degrees in partnership with nine colleges and universities. Recognizing the importance of re-entry support, Sean has launched several important initiatives including a College Completion Program which provides opportunities for students to fulfill their degree requirements upon release, and New Beginnings, a transitional housing initiative utilizing the efforts of our released alumni to renovate abandoned properties and create safe transitional housing for returning program alumni.

Sean is the Board Chair for the Alliance for Higher Education in Prison, serves on the New York State Council on Community Re-Entry and Reintegration, and is a member of the Service Providers Advisory Committee which collaborates on policy issues in the NYS Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. ‍

Jesse Williams

Jesse Williams is an activist, actor, entrepreneur and former high school teacher. His Broadway debut earned him a Tony Award nomination in the lead role in Take Me Out. Jesse came to fame playing “Dr. Jackson Avery” on Grey’s Anatomy and has appeared in TV and films including The Cabin in the Woods, Little Fires Everywhere, Lee Daniels’ The Butler, and Selah and the Spades. 

Williams produced the 2020 Oscar winning short film Two Distant Strangers and served as senior producer and correspondent alongside Norman Lear for EPIX docuseries America Divided. He also executive produced the 2016 documentary Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement.

Rodrigo "RodStarz" Venegas

Rodrigo “RodStarz” Venegas is 1/2 of the Hip Hop group Rebel Diaz. The MC/organizer has been a part of Hip Hop culture since he was a teenage BBoy during the 90s in Chicago. A South Bronx resident since 2004, his community activism has shaped his lifes work from taking over buildings and starting the autonomous Hip Hop community space in The Rebel Diaz Arts Collective (RDACBX) , to travelling the world w/ Rebel Diaz, to hosting and producing the Ñ Dont Stop show for Telesur English. This son of Chilean exiles truly has lived an internationalist struggle thru his actions. His favorite book is Down these Mean Streets by Piri Thomas and his favorite thing to do is play soccer with his son Roque. He is looking forward to being a papa again with his daughter Lila on the way.