VALARIE KAUR is a renowned civil rights leader, lawyer, best-selling author, award-winning filmmaker, faith leader, mother, and founder of the Revolutionary Love Project, igniting a national movement to reclaim love as a force for justice, healing, and transformation. She became an activist when a member of her community – a Sikh American father – was murdered in the racial violence that followed 9/11. For 25 years, Valarie has led visionary campaigns for justice — in the wake of hate murders, inside America’s supermax prisons, at detention centers from Tijuana to Guantanamo, and most recently, at sites of state violence from Los Angeles to Minneapolis. The communities she served taught her an essential ingredient to birthing a healthy future: love. Since Fall 2024, Valarie has led the Revolutionary Love Tour, a healing odyssey to 75 cities across the United States, igniting one message: Revolutionary Love is the call of our times — the choice to leave no one outside our circle of care.  We recommend Valarie's acclaimed books: SEE NO STRANGER, SAGE WARRIOR, and her children's book WORLD OF WONDER. Follow at @valariekaur 

W. Kamau Bell is a Peabody Award-winner, four-time Emmy Award-winner, Celebrity Jeopardy! champion, part-time activist, and full-time family man. Kamau is a two-time New York Times Bestseller with Do The Work! - An Antiracist Activity Book and Who is Government? - The Untold Story of Public Service. Kamau is best known for his CNN series United Shades of America and his docuseries We Need To Talk About Cosby, Kamau has a podcast and a bestselling Substack, both named Who’s With Me? Kamau is the ACLU Artist Ambassador for Racial Justice, is on the Board of Directors for DonorsChoose, and is on the advisory board of LiveFree. Kamau’s first children’s book is titled Rock, Paper, Scissors, Cheese. It comes out October 27, 2026. Kamau is currently on his 2026 Who’s With Me? stand-up comedy tour.

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Andrea Gibson was one of the most celebrated and influential spoken word poets of our time.

Gibson authored five full-length poetry collections, an illustrated book of their most memorable quotes, and released seven albums.

Though Gibson toured for many years, a cancer diagnosis in 2021 brought their time on the road to a halt—and transformed their work into something transcendent

Gibson and their wife, Megan Falley, are the subjects of the Sundance Festival Favorite–winning, Peabody-winning, and Academy Award–nominated documentary Come See Me in the Good Light, which follows the couple through the final year of Gibson’s life.

At the time of their death, Andrea Gibson was serving as the Poet Laureate of Colorado. Now, they are the Poet Laureate of Heaven.

Standing on the shoulders of my ancestors, Dr. Coach (JuanCarlos Arauz) is one of the most sought-after speakers and facilitators, inspiring and captivating audiences internationally through his creative storytelling approach. He has mastered the art of addressing the delicate topics of education, equity, immigration, and Black/Brown male youth development. He has written academically on the intersection of Social-Emotional Learning & Equity, as well as personal testimonials, and is featured in a documentary that focuses on contemporary civil rights activists. His fresh and compelling vision cultivates collaboration between various sectors, providing solutions to humanize the educational process for every student and educator.

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Wendy MacNaughton is an artist and graphic journalist whose practice unites drawing, social work, and storytelling to document overlooked people and places. Through DrawTogether, her participatory arts initiative, she teaches children and adults to use drawing not as a skill to master but as a practice of attention— a way to truly see the world, connect with others and care.

A proud 2nd generation Pinay American of Ilocano and Visayan heritage, Stephanie brings over 25 years of experience in building equitable access to care in health and human services. As Legacy Co-Chair of the Filipino Mental Health Initiative of San Mateo County & Co-Founder/Executive Director of Kapwa Kultural Center/Café, she continues to advance healing, cultural connection, and belonging through expressive arts and community care.

Author of How We Show Up and founding Executive Director of Next River, Mia Birdsong is a pathfinder and futurist who reconnects us with our forgotten wisdom and practices of our collective liberation. 

She brings her contagious curiosity to her writing, interviews, and public conversations. Mia champions the inherent worthiness of people in both her podcast series More Than Enough and her TED talk on The Story We Tell About Poverty Isn’t True. Her most recent work, Freedom’s Revival: Research from the Headwaters of Liberation, charts the interconnected nature of “freedom.”

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Kate  is a feminist author, educator, and public speaker. She's the New York Times-bestselling author of the "Rad Women" book series; the novel Where the Girls Were; the 33 ⅓ book Rid of Me: A Story; and Do the Work: An Anti-Racist Activity Book, co-written with W. Kamau Bell. She lives in the Bay Area with her wife, three children, and pets. In all she does, Kate is committed to sharing radical histories that shine light on the marginalized people who've truly made America (and the world) great: the people of color, the immigrants, the queers, the punks, the weirdos, the artists, the workers, and the women.

Farmer Alfred Melbourne is the founder and director of Three Sisters Gardens and a long-time resident of West Sacramento. Three Sisters Gardens is a nonprofit organization bringing community members together to grow food and lives. Their mission is to teach at-potential youth how to grow/harvest/distribute organic vegetables and engage the community to get involved in supporting the at-potential youth population in Yolo County.

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Sarah Rich and Alexis Madrigal are co-founders of Local Economy, a community resilience hub and event space in North Oakland bringing people together around civic issues, art, and ideas that we need for the future. Since launching in October 2025, Local Economy has hosted more than 200 events, as well as serving as a meeting place for community organizers and culture makers. In addition to running Local Economy, Sarah is a writer, editor, and founder of the narrative change project Department of Invisible Labor; and Alexis is the co-host of KQED’s Forum and the author of The Pacific Circuit.

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Nurjahan Boulden is a storyteller and gun violence survivor, sharing belly dance the way she grew up with it. She is widely recognized across social media platforms for her advocacy in decolonizing belly dance, deconstructing cultural myths, and promoting bodily autonomy as a Muslim-American woman. Her story has been featured in Women's Health, Cosmopolitan, The Guardian, and other news publications, podcasts, and shows. She speaks at colleges and universities across the country, and has online and in-person belly dance programs. She shares tutorials, stories, and dance videos, inviting people around the world to release shame and trauma, get silly, and celebrate their bodies no matter what they've survived.

Garrett Bucks is an organizer, writer and dad, originally from Montana, now living in Milwaukee. Through the Barnraisers Project, he has trained thousands of people across the world to build community and make a difference with their neighbors. He is also the author of the popular weekly newsletter, The White Pages, with more than 25,000 subscribers in 140 countries, as well as the memoir The Right Kind of White, which was released by Simon and Schuster in 2024. His current project is the Interdependence Relay– a marathon of fifty cookouts, potlucks, sewing circles and hootenannies in all fifty states, connected by a 60 pound black walnut box with fifty compartments. 

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