Bob Turner, Boston Globe Senior Research  Fellow, John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, UMass Boston

Associate Professor Rajini Srikanth, UMass Boston, and graduate student Widad Alidani

Dr. J. Cedric Woods, interim director, Institure for Native American Studies, UMass Boston

Dr. Paul Watanabe, Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of the Institute for Asian-American Studies, UMass Boston

The Reverend Eugene Rivers, Activist, Pastor of the Azusa Christian Community, co-founder of the Boston TenPoint Coalition and co-chair of the National TenPoint Leadership Foundation.

Professor James Green of UMass Boston, author of Death in the Haymarket

Susan Bagyura, author of The Visionary Leader: How to Inspire Success From the Top Down

Professor Robert Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government

Harvard psychologist Dr. Shelley Carson, author of Your Creative Brain: Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity, and Innovation in Your Life

Dr. Jeffrey Brown, Harvard psychologist and co-author of The Winner's Brain: 8 Strategies Great Minds Use to Achieve Success