Poverty Speakers

Academy Award-Winning Actress, Producer & New York Times Best-Selling Author

Educational Equity Proponent & Dean of the USC Rossier School of Education

Executive Board Chair of Purpose Built Communities; Former Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia; Visiting Professor at The LBJ School

Real Estate Developer; Mayor; US Army Veteran

Emmy-winning Actress, Political Activist, LGBTQ Advocate

Nigerian-American Designer, Urbanist & Spatial Justice Activist; Founder of Studio O; Known for Impacting Marginalized Communities

Real Estate Developer, Peabody Award-Winning Broadcaster & Urban Revitalization Strategy Consultant; TED Speaker; Author of "Reclaiming Your Community"

Youngest Muslim Elected Official in the United States; Political & Diversity Activist; Skokie Board of Education

Emmy & Grammy Award-Winning Comedian, Actress & Dancer Known for "Bad Trip," "Black Mitzvah" & "The Afterparty"; Author, "The Last Black Unicorn"

Academy Awarding-Winning Writer, Director & Producer Known for "Moonlight"

Author & Lecturer on Homelessness; Bestselling Author of "Breakfast at Sally's"

Architect, Urbanist, Author & Advocate for Sustainable Design Thinking; Named One of 100 Most Influential Urbanists of All Time by Planetizen

Award-Winning Actress, Producer & Humanitarian

Founder & CEO of Tala, Financial Inclusion Innovator, Global Health Advocate

Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor of City & Regional Planning & Sociology, University of Pennsylvania; Authority on Urban Planning & Housing Policy

Visiting Professor at Princeton School of Public and International Affairs; Former Executive Director at Human Rights Watch; Human Rights Advocate & Author of "Righting Wrongs"

National Leading Scholar of Poverty & Social Welfare Policy; Professor of Social Justice, Social Policy, Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School; Co-Director of Rx Kids & Author

Executive Director of UNAIDS; Grass-Roots Activist, Women's & Human Rights Advocate & Senior International Public Servant

Neuroscientist & Pediatrician; Director of the Neurocognition, Early Experience & Development (NEED) Lab at Columbia University

Mother Teresa Award Winner, Anti-Trafficking Expert & Human Rights Activist