This is the moment to truly leave our sustainable and noticeable mark on the world in a fresh and innovative way.

Darron Lamonte Edwards

Senior/Lead Pastor, United Believers Community Church

If you believe change happens in the midst of chaos, then this is your time. Now more than ever, waiting is perilous.

Penny Lewandowski

Founder, Change at the Edges; former VP, Edward Lowe Foundation

It’s important for me to be an advocate for my students and help steer them toward the companies that are holding firm to the commitments to inclusion that have been made by leadership.

Yuvay Meyers Ferguson, Ph.D.

Assistant Dean of Impact and Engagement, Associate Professor, Howard University School of Business

As more leaders share their own stories, the idea of change really does become more normal, and the idea that you are a parent as well as an employee can become more of an asset.

Katie Hendrix

Vice President of Client and Stakeholder Development, Pathway Lending; former Chief of Staff, CO.LAB

This is the perfect time to reflect on what we have done in the past, what we are now doing, and what works.

Tonia Gilbert

Executive Director, Upper Room

How can we create an inclusive economy using outdated and inequitable practices?

Rashawn Caruthers

Director of Educator Engagement, Getting Smart

We have a responsibility to act, from whatever seat we are in and whatever influences we have, to end inequity and injustice by investing in equity and justice.

Eunice Mitchell

Regional Director, Big Picture Learning

When people … are equipped with connections and information they trust, they make systemic change. They start companies, change laws, donate in different ways. They will change education and economic systems.

Elizabeth MacBride

Founder, Times of Entrepreneurship; Co-author; The New Builders: Face to Face With the True Future of Business

The pandemic brought to the surface what we, who have been in the trenches, have known forever – that the system is not designed to get the ultimate results for all.

Dr. Lateshia Woodley

Assistant Superintendent of Student Support, Kansas City Public Schools

A better life is possible for us. One filled with love, togetherness, and community. It’s going to require a radical shift, but it can be done.

Ella Livingston

Founder, Cocoa Asante

Simply put, economies, education, and other systems will not change unless we understand and thus respond to the systems and people who represent those systems.

Giselle Mota

Principal Consultant, ADP’s Future of Work team

I believe we are at a tipping point for reimagining capitalism.

Seth Levine

Co-author, The New Builders: Face to Face With the True Future of Business; Co-founder and Managing Director, Foundry Group

I cannot imagine a more opportune time for rallying around efforts for effective and permanent change.

Dred Scott

President and CEO, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Kansas City

We need everyone to double down and do the hard work, have the hard conversations, and push past the fears of failure.

Vanessa Roanhorse

CEO, Roanhorse Consulting LLC