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Change-makers and voices who share our vision
Helen Keller
Author and advocate, 1880-1968
Brené Brown
Professor and author, 1965-present
Maya Angelou
Author, poet, and activist, 1928-2014
Earl Warren
Former Chief Justice, 1891-1974
Robert F. Kennedy
Former U.S. Attorney General, 1925-1968
Frank Zappa
American composer, 1940-1993
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Novelist and historian, 1918-2008
Eleanor Roosevelt
Activist, former First Lady, 1884-1962
Alan Kay
Computer scientist, 1940-present
Grace Lee Boggs
Author and social activist, 1915-2015
Brian Grazer
Film producer and author, 1951-present
Bryan Stevenson
Lawyer and activist, 1959–present
Warren G. Bennis
Scholar and author, 1925–2014
Michelle Alexander
Writer and activist, 1967–present
Ijeoma Oluo
Writer and speaker, 1980–present
Frederick Douglass
Abolitionist and writer, 1818–1895
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Theologian and activist, 1931–2021
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Leader, activist, and minister, 1929–1968
James A. Baldwin
Writer, 1924–1987