Steve Kerr is the Head Coach of the Golden State Warriors. Kerr is a nine-time NBA champion, having won five titles as a player and four as head coach of the Warriors. He was named one of the 15 Greatest Coaches in NBA History. In addition to giving back to the community, Coach Kerr is a passionate advocate for stronger gun control in America and leverages his platform to promote meaningful reform.

Chelsea Devantez is an Emmy-nominated writer, national bestselling author, comedian, director, and host of the podcast Glamorous Trash. Chelsea served as Jon Stewart’s Head Writer on Apple TV+’s The Problem with Jon Stewart. Chelsea’s debut memoir, I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This (But I’m Going to Anyway), was published in June 2024 by Hanover Square Press, an imprint of HarperCollins. Her memoir became a national bestseller and was featured prominently in airport bookstores across America. Amazon named her memoir an Editor’s Pick and Bestseller, while Booklist awarded it a starred review.

Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014). She is a Pulitzer Prize winning writer, and the author of five collections of poetry, two memoirs, and one nonfiction book. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Beinecke Library at Yale, and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. At Northwestern University she is a Board of Trustees Professor of English in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. In 2012 she was named Poet Laureate of the State of Mississippi and in 2013 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Taylor Dumpson became the first Black woman to serve as president of the Student Government at American University. In the wake of her groundbreaking election, she was the target of a racially-motivated hate crime, followed by cyber-harassment by members of white supremacist groups. Taylor fought back and won a landmark settlement against the Neo-Nazis who cyber-harassed her. She is currently a Special Assistant Attorney General in the Family/District Court Unit Rhode Island’s Attorney General Office.

Aalayah Eastmond is a survivor of the 2018 Parkland shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. In 2019, she testified before congress to address gun violence. She knew it was important to shed light on what happened at Parkland and that her voice as a Black student had to be lifted and included in the conversation surrounding gun violence. She is now the National Administrator at Team ENOUGH and Co-Founder and Director of Operations and Finance for Concerned Citizens DC.

Rosalie Fish is a Cowlitz tribal member and a semi-professional runner from the Muckleshoot reservation. Rosalie runs for Missing and Murdered Indigenous People, and competed for the University of Washington at the D1 level. Now, Rosalie educates on Indigenous issues and coaches track at the Muckleshoot Tribal school.

Chanel Miller is a writer, artist, advocate, and best-selling author of Know My Name, a powerful memoir that reveals the painful yet inspiring journey from living as Emily Doe during one of the most widely followed sexual assault cases of late, to emerging as a leading voice for positive cultural and social change.

Sasha Khokha is the host of The California Report’s weekly magazine program, which takes listeners on sound-rich excursions to meet the people that make the Golden State unique — through audio documentaries and long-form stories. As The California Report’s Central Valley Bureau Chief based in Fresno for nearly a dozen years, Sasha brought the lives and concerns of rural Californians to listeners around the state. Her reporting helped expose the hidden price immigrant women janitors and farmworkers may pay to keep their jobs: sexual assault at work. It inspired two new California laws to protect them from sexual harassment. She was a key member of the reporting team for the Frontline film RAPE ON THE NIGHT SHIFT, which was nominated for two national Emmys. Sasha has also won a national Edward R. Murrow and a national PRNDI award for investigative reporting, as well as multiple prizes from the Society for Professional Journalists. Sasha is a proud alum of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and Brown University and a member of the South Asian Journalists Association

Bing Liu is a China-born, Midwest-raised filmmaker best known for directing MINDING THE GAP, which was nominated for Best Feature Documentary at the 91st Academy Awards and won a Peabody. He was also a segment director on AMERICA TO ME, which premiered on Starz and was hailed as one of the best TV shows of the year. He co-directed ALL THESE SONS with Josh Altman, which won Best Cinematography at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival and the Maysles Award at the Denver International Film Festival.

Renel Brooks-Moon is a Bay Area native, born in Oakland, California. Her radio career included stints at 106 KMEL, “The Morning Zoo”, and the “Renel in the Morning Show” on 98.1 KISS-FM. Her career in sports broadcasting started with the Oakland A’s as host of “A’s Inside Pitch”. In 2000, she was named Public Address Announcer for the San Francisco Giants, and was on the microphone for the Giants 3 World Series championships. She hosted all three post parade rallies at City Hall, and completed her 24th and final season at Oracle Park in 2023. Renel has been recognized by the Baseball Hall of Fame as the first woman to Public Address Announce a world championship game in any professional sport. Renel has received numerous awards, including honors from American Women in Radio and Television, Multi-Ethnic Sports Hall of Fame, Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame and the Junior Giants Hall of Fame, to name just a few. In 2008, Renel received an honorary doctorate from her Alma Mater, Mills College, and in 2018 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of San Francisco, and in May 2024, Renel was honored by the California State as “Woman of the Year” in recognition of her trailblazing broadcasting career and commitment to women and children and social justice.