Ambassadors

David Blight
Pulitzer Prize Winning Author & Historian

Suellen Brazil
International President, General Federation of Women’s Clubs

Ken Burns
Filmmaker

Jovita Carranza
44th U.S. Treasurer & 26th Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration

Elaine Chao
24th U. S. Secretary of Labor & 18th U. S. Secretary of Transportation

Kay Coles James
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia

Susan Combs
Former Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management, & Budget of the Department of the Interior

Elsie Cooke-Holmes
International President and Chair of the Board of Directors, Delta Sigma Theta

Thelma Daley
16th National President, Delta Sigma Theta

Rosario Dawson
Activist, Producer, & Designer

Malcolm Gladwell
New York Times Bestselling Author & host of Revisionist History

Joy Harjo
23rd Poet Laureate of the United States

Karen Hill
President & CEO of the Harriet Tubman Home

Kerri Hoffman
CEO of PRX

Doris Kearns Goodwin
Pulitzer Prize Winning Author & Presidential Historian

Rasheeda S. Liberty
International President of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.

Brad Meltzer
Historian & Best-Selling Author

Senator Barbara Mikulski (Ret)
Longest Serving Woman in Congressional History

Nicola Miner
Philanthropist

Monica Padman
Co-Host & Producer of the Armchair Expert Podcast

Norah O’Donnell
Anchor & Managing Editor of the CBS Evening News

Aly Raisman
Gold Medalist & Advocate

Retta
Actress, Comedienne, & Author

Deborah Rutter
President of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Jennifer Siebel Newsom
Filmmaker & First Partner of California

Shaina Taub
Broadway Playwright

Nina Totenberg
NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent

Pamela Wright
President General, Daughters of the American Revolution