Brooke Baldwin is a bestselling author, veteran journalist, and Peabody Award finalist. She hosted her own live daily news show on CNN for more than a decade and has covered everything from natural disasters, mass shootings, and terror attacks. Viewers have come to admire Baldwin for her versatility, authenticity, and humanity at the news desk. They also know her for her debut book, Huddle: How Women Unlock Their Collective Power (HarperCollins, April 2021), in which she redefines the word “huddle,” when women lean on one another to provide each other support, empowerment, inspiration, and the strength to enact meaningful change. Baldwin now makes her home in New York with her husband, James, and their pug, Pugsley.

Lauren Blitzer is the VP of Business Development at Sony Music Entertainment. She is also the author of Same Sex in the City: (So Your Prince Charming Is Really a Cinderella) published in 2006 by Simon Spotlight Entertainment. Blitzer was born and raised in New York City, where she attended NYU, majoring in Art History and Photography. She started her career in Sales at Condé Nast and soon after worked as a Copywriter for J.Crew before moving into the non-profit world, raising funds for GLSEN, before moving to Sony Music Entertainment. She currently lives on the Upper East Side with her wife, award-winning singer, singer-writer and DE&I executive Chely Wright and their twin boys, George and Everett.

Rabia Chaudry is an attorney, advocate, and author of the New York Times bestselling book Adnan's Story and Executive Producer of a four-part HBO documentary The Case Against Adnan Syed. Chaudry is also producer and host of four podcasts, The 45th, Undisclosed, Nighty Nighty, and The Hidden Djinn. Her second book, Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family, will be published in November 2022. Chaudry was an International Security Fellow at the New America Foundation, Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at U.S. Institute of Peace, received her Juris Doctorate from the George Mason School of Law, and practiced law for over a decade. She is currently a 2021 Aspen Institute/ADL Civil Society Fellow.

Jennifer Esposito’s breakthrough role came in 1999 in Spike Lee's film Summer of Sam. In a career that has spanned more than 25 years, she has appeared in numerous films and television productions, most notably the Academy Award-winning film Crash, in which she received a Screen Actors Guild Award, Critics Choice Award, and a Hollywood Foreign Press Award for Best Ensemble. Her television credits include Samantha Who, Blue Bloods, The Affair, and Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens. She can next be seen alongside Ray Romano in Somewhere in Queens. Esposito just wrapped her directorial debut, Fresh Kills, which she also wrote, produced, and starred in. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling book Jennifer's Way, which follows her long journey with celiac disease.

Stephanie Hopson is a music business executive and open water swimmer. Over the course of her 25-year career, she has worked with the likes of Grammy winners James Taylor, Tanya Tucker, and most recently, Grammy nominees Valerie June and Allison Russell. Hopson is one of only 108 women in the world to complete the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming: English Channel, Catalina, and circumnavigation of Manhattan. She is also a member of the 24-hour swimming club, having swum 24 hours and 31 minutes in her English Channel crossing, the longest by any American woman in history.

Janelle Murren was born in 1978 in Trinidad, where she lived for 21 years before moving to New Jersey with her husband, Hayden, and daughter Sherice. She also has another child, Stephon, who is 14. Murran has been working in childcare for 20 years. In addition, she is a small business owner and founded a local advocacy organization which provides food, clothing, and school supplies to disadvantaged youth in Trinidad.

Kathy Najimy is an activist, director, writer-producer, speaker, and actor known for her stage, television, and film projects, including her feminist comedy The Kathy & Mo Show with Mo Gaffney (off-Broadway and 2 HBO specials), King of the Hill, Veep, Single All the Way, Sister Act, Younger, Dumplin', Hocus Pocus, and more. Her honors include Ms. magazine’s Woman of the Year, the Hollywood Women's Press Discovery of the Year, Lily Awards Actor/Activist of the Year, American Comedy Award, GMHC Lifetime Achievement Award, L.A. Shanti’s Founder Award, and the L.A. LGBT Center’s Distinguished Achievement Award. Najimy created the off-Broadway hit Gloria: A Life, about her friend Gloria Steinem, and created a series about Ms. magazine and the ’70s women's movement in NYC, penned by Callie Khouri.

Shakina Nayfack made television history on NBC’s Connecting... as the first transgender person to play a series regular on a network sitcom. She can also be seen in Amazon’s Transparent: Musicale Finale, which she helped write and produce, and Hulu’s Difficult People, for which she was a writing consultant. Her play Chonburi International Hotel and Butterfly Club premiered on Audible in 2020 in collaboration with Williamstown Theatre Festival and was recognized with a 2021 Drama League Award for Best Audio Theater Production. Nayfack is the Founding Artistic Director of Musical Theatre Factory, which has developed hundreds of musicals, including Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning, 11-time Tony-nominated A Strange Loop, and her own autobiographical glam-rock odyssey, Manifest Pussy.

Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman is an award-winning Ghanaian-American researcher, entrepreneur, and writer. Her new book, The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System, is the first collection to exclusively feature Black scholars and experts across economics, education, health, climate, criminal justice, and technology. She graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2019 with a Bachelors of Arts in Mathematics and a minor in Economics. Currently, she is a graduate student at Harvard Kennedy School, studying public policy and economics. Her advocacy, research, and commentary are featured widely by media outlets such as Bloomberg, NPR, Teen Vogue, Slate, and The New York Times.

Allison Russell is an artist, activist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist of extraordinary power, talent, and grace. A founding member of the acclaimed groups Our Native Daughters and Birds of Chicago, the Montreal native has emerged as a potent force among creative circles worldwide. On her three-time Grammy-nominated debut solo album, Outside Child (Fantasy, 2021), Russell shares the harrowing story of her abusive childhood in a deeply moving, unforgettable song-cycle of courage, empathy, hope, and love. In January 2022, Russell announced signing with publishing house Macmillan Flatiron for the release of her upcoming memoir.

Gloria Steinem is a writer, political activist, and feminist organizer. She was a founder of New York and Ms. magazines, and has authored many books, including My Life on the Road; Moving Beyond Words; Revolution from Within; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off! The organizations she co-founded include the Ms. Foundation for Women, the Women’s Media Center, and Equality Now. She has also produced documentaries, most recently with Amy Richards, Woman, and for Viceland, a series on global violence against women. In 2013, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.

Named Top New Female Vocalist by The Academy of Country Music, Chely Wright has released 9 studio albums and charted more than 15 singles on Billboard, including Shut Up and Drive, Single White Female, and The Bumper of My S.U.V. Wright made history by being the first country music star to publicly come out as gay, which she wrote about in her memoir, Like Me. She's written songs for film and television, and other artists, spanning multiple genres. Wright currently serves as Chief Diversity Officer at Unispace, a global strategy, design, and delivery firm. She is also Vice Chair of the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network Board of Directors, a national education organization focused on ensuring safe schools for all students.