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The very personification of courage, optimism, and resilience, former U.S. Congresswoman Gabby Giffords shares her remarkable story on stage, joined by her renowned speech pathologist, Dr. Fabi Hirsch Kruse.

Gabby Giffords’ story of perseverance and hope is unparalleled. The youngest woman ever to serve in the Arizona State Senate and a trailblazer in other offices, Gabby became a rising star on the national stage after being elected to the U.S. Congress in 2006. Revered for her exemplary public service, integrity, and bridge-building politics, Gabby was a beloved leader with an auspicious future.

On January 8, 2011, the nation was shocked by the news that a Congresswoman had been the target of an assassination attempt during a meeting with constituents in Tucson, Arizona—a mass shooting that left six people dead and over a dozen more injured.

Though Gabby survived the shooting, a bullet wound to her brain caused Aphasia, a speech and language disorder that affects many stroke and brain injury survivors. While her intellect wasn’t affected, it became difficult for her to translate thoughts into words.

With near-daily therapy work and relentless encouragement from Dr. Fabi Hirsch Kruse—her speech pathologist and one of the country’s preeminent experts on Aphasia—Gabby has gone from only saying a few words to speaking publicly again.

Today, Gabby shares her extraordinary story in person, with the help of Dr. Fabi. Appearing together in a fascinating Q&A presentation, the two are accompanied by clips from the critically-acclaimed 2022 documentary, Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down, a film which perfectly chronicles Gabby's grit and determination, and her triumph in the wake of tragedy.

In this unique program, Gabby inspires audiences to overcome whatever barriers they may face, challenging them to live and lead with unwavering positivity.

Gabby’s incredible bravery and strength have earned her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, and a place on TIME’s Most Influential People list, among many other honors.

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Shaquem Griffin made history as the NFL’s first-ever one-handed player. Now he inspires others to overcome adversity and persevere.

Shaquem Griffin was born just minutes after his twin, Shaquill. Both boys went on to become remarkable athletes in high school and college at the University of Central Florida (UCF), and both play in the NFL after being drafted by the same team—but Shaquem did it all with just one hand.

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People ask how Shaquem Griffin defied the odds to play collegiate football. How he managed to become the ACC “Defensive Player of the Year,” despite having just one hand. They’re amazed that he made history playing in the NFL—the world’s most competitive professional sports league, which honored him with the “NFL Game Changer Award.” Answers include the Griffin family values—their unconditional support and sacrifice for each other. Answers include the unbreakable bond between Shaquem and his twin brother, Shaquille, and the pledge they made at the age of eight to stand by each other, come hell or high water. And answers include Shaquem Griffin himself. In his own humble words, “Nothing Comes Easy”—and his belief that nothing worth having comes without some sort of fight. It’s an almost unbelievable success story—anchored by family and driven by commitment, belief, and purpose.

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After bringing home the gold and silver medals at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Laurie Hernandez went on to win the coveted mirror ball trophy on Dancing with the Stars, and to publish two books: I Got This: To Gold and Beyond, in 2017, and a picture book for children, She’s Got This, in 2018. Both were New York Times bestsellers. In recognition of Hernandez’s work as a Literacy Champion promoting readership as a path to leadership, Mattel created a Laurie Hernandez “Shero” Barbie to honor her.

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I’ve Got This

2016 gold medal–winning Olympic gymnast and Dancing with the Stars champion Laurie Hernandez shares her story in her own words.

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Through the transformative power of storytelling, Soledad O’Brien brings a fresh perspective on diverse and contemporary issues to foster change in your own community or organization.

Soledad O’Brien was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of fame in May 2023. She is an award-winning documentarian, journalist, speaker, author, and philanthropist, and founder of Soledad O’Brien Productions, a media production company dedicated to telling empowering and authentic stories on a range of social issues. She anchors and produces Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien, a Hearst political magazine program seen in 95% of the country. She is a correspondent for HBO Real Sports.

Soledad has a national impact through her speeches and books, including her critically acclaimed memoir The Next Big Story and Latino in America, and her 1.3 million Twitter followers.

Soledad O’Brien Productions’ most recent projects include the Peabody-Award winning documentary, The Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and streams on Peacock, and the multi-part series Black and Missing, which won the Independent Spirit and NAACP awards, and streams on HBO. Other productions have appeared on Discovery Plus, CNN, BET, PBS, and others. She also works with major foundations, like Ford, to produce impactful documentaries on topics like hunger, race and public health.

She has a presence on the op-ed pages of places like the New York Times and Huffington Post, and gave Congressional testimony on media disinformation. She has anchored shows on CNN, MSNBC, and NBC, and CBS.

O’Brien’s work has been recognized with four Emmy awards, three times with the George Foster Peabody Award, four times with the Gracie Award, which honors women in media, twice with Cine Awards for her work in documentary films and with an Alfred I. DuPont Award.

She founded the PowHerful foundation in 2011 which has helped dozens of young women get to and through college and connects with thousands of others through regional mentoring conferences.

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Disrupting and Dismantling Systematic Racism
Award-winning journalist Soledad O’Brien discusses the impact of racial biases and stereotypes. By sharing voices and perspectives that often go unheard, Soledad brings the challenges of equality and justice into full view where they can be confronted and addressed. She adds powerful, real world insights by exploring systematic racism in selected US cities where efforts are underway to reform policing, incarceration, education, land ownership and more. Audiences leave with a new understanding of how each of us can better understand and assist in dismantling systemic racism.
Matter of Fact
As host of the weekly political magazine show Matter of Fact, Soledad O’Brien expands the conversation around the day’s most important issues by engaging in a more inclusive dialogue with decision makers who are shaping the new American political landscape. She shares her commitment to introducing the under-voiced into the national conversation, and offers powerful insights on the impact of highlighting these perspectives on individuals across the country. As Soledad reflects on her goal to bring the news above the noise created by the traditional media cycle, audiences take away a renewed outlook on the issues and dialogue that matter most to them.
Communicating in Times of Change
Award-winning journalist, documentarian, anchor and producer of the weekly political program Matter of Fact, and founder and CEO of Soledad O’Brien Productions, Soledad has reported from the scene of many disasters over the course of her storied career. From the Asian tsunami, the earthquake in Haiti, and Hurricane Katrina to the mass shooting of at Virginia Tech University, she has learned how proactive and effective communication can assist in reassuring those impacted by a crisis. She shows leaders how to avoid common communication pitfalls and how to lead their teams confidently in the face of adversity. During the COVID-19 pandemic, O’Brien has shared this inspiring virtual message with teams at tech companies ranging from Salesforce to Google and has received rave reviews.
The End of Affirmative Action: How Will U.S. Businesses Be Impacted?
After the 2023 SCOTUS ruling on Affirmative Action, a huge impact is expected to be felt not just for colleges and universities, but for the corporate world as well—as businesses rely heavily on higher education institutions for their talent pipeline. Data shows that diverse teams and companies outperform less diverse competitors, so it is critical that U.S. companies produce diverse teams to compete in the global economy.
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One of Variety magazine’s Top 10 Latina Actresses to Watch, actor Diane Guerrero draws on personal and professional experiences to show audiences that success is possible—no matter the obstacles in your way.
Diane Guerrero is a series regular on DC Universe/HBO Max’s series Doom Patrol. As “Crazy Jane,” the most powerful member of the show’s titular band of outcast superheroes, she is an unlikely and unstable hero who suffers from the world’s most severe case of multiple personality disorder—each of her 64 distinct personas comes with a different superpower.
She is also known for her role as “Sofia” on the CBS comedy Superior Donuts, and for portraying “Maritza Ramos” on the award-winning, Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated Netflix series Orange is the New Black (for which she received three Screen Actors Guild awards), and she plays \"Lina\" in CW's break-out hit Jane the Virgin. Most recently, she appeared in SONY's Blast Beat, directed by Estabon Arango, with Daniel Dae Kim and Wilmer Valderrama.
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In The Country We Love: My Family Divided
Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit “Orange is the New Black” and “Jane the Virgin,” was just 14 years old on the day her parents were detained and deported while she was at school. Born in the U.S., Diane was able to remain in the country and continue her education, depending on the kindness of family friends who took her in and helped her build a life and a successful acting career for herself, without the support system of her family.
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Model, Actress, Author, Advocate and Activist Dominique Jackson is best known for her leading role of Elektra Abundance on the FX television series Pose.
From fleeing persecution as a transgender woman in her home country of Trinidad and Tobago to starring in television hits, Dominique Jackson has seen it all. After experiencing homelessness and rejection from her own family, Jackson has used her success to shed light on the challenges transgender women like herself too often face.
Jackson stars in Pose, an FX television series about the African American and Latinx LGBTQ+ gender-nonconforming ballroom culture scene in the 1980s and 1990s. For Jackson, her character is more than just someone she plays in front of the cameras. She is a representation of what Jackson and many transgender women go through when they lose their families after coming out.
A leader in her community, Jackson has been awarded several accolades and was also inducted into the House and Ballroom Hall of Fame and deemed Iconic on February 27, 2016 at the NYC Ball Awards. In 2017, Jackson received the Legacy of Pride Award presented by Harlem Pride and received the first Bronx LGBT Leadership Award presented by Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz JR and Allies LGBT Pride Celebration. That same year, she was honored with the New York State Assembly Citation issued by Mark Gjonaj.
A fashion model since 2000, Jackson began her career at Brooklyn Fashion Week before moving onto Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. In 2011, she served as Mistress of Ceremonies in Solomon Harris’ take on the ballroom scene Newark Is Burning at NJPAC (Newark, NJ). Jackson is one of the resident models to Adrian Alicea Couture, Manuel Pelferes Couture and Angel Ayala Couture. She added Gypsy Sport by Rio Uribe and Stevie Boi to her runway accomplishments during 2016 Fall/Winter Fashion Week.
In 2014, Jackson released her autobiographical memoir The Transsexual from Tobago (Revised). Later that year, she starred in Carla Pridgen’s Incongruence produced by Ivy Theatre. In 2016, she starred in Oxygen Network’s GLAAD Award winning reality docu-series Strut, executive produced by Whoopi Goldberg and Tom Leonardis, and the short film T Times by Gabriel Torres.
Jackson has served on the Community Health Program Board at the Montefiore South Bronx Healthcare Clinic for the last two years.
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An Evening with Dominique Jackson
We know Dominique as the star of Pose, but for Jackson, her character is more than just someone she plays in front of the cameras. She is a representation of what Jackson and many transgender women go through when they lose their families after coming out. Through her interactive conversation, she hopes to inform audiences and to bring awareness to the injustices within the transgender community, while inspiring all of us to become stronger activists and allies.
Turning Trauma into Triumph
By the time she was 15, actress and model Dominique Jackson had experienced more trauma than most experience in a lifetime. As Elektra on the hit series Pose, Dominique’s role echoed some of her own struggles as a trans-gender woman rejected by her family, homeless and struggling to find acceptance in a world that seemed to believe she had no right even to exist. While everyone’s journey through trauma is unique, beginning is often the hardest part. Dominique came to realize that there are specific steps that can help anyone start the process of healing. As she shows audiences, to become the ‘you’ that you desire, you must teach the ‘you’ of today how to get there. Dominique shares the steps and habits of thinking that helped her turn trauma into triumph, and in this presentation her goal is to help you take your next step—whether that’s just knowing what to do to get started or facing the next hurdle.
Dominique’s keynote focuses on the specific skills that will help anyone struggling to process trauma and adversity and come out on the other side, including:
How to find the courage to start when you know that the journey means having to re-live the trauma
How to maintain the momentum once you’ve begun
Why discipline and hard work are the qualities you must cultivate to succeed and how to jump-start your willingness to embrace them
How to cultivate patience on your journey through trauma to triumph (which looks different for everyone)
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Brandon Stanton shares his journey of personal growth and discovery, and uncovers the stories behind the stories featured on Humans of New York, powerfully illustrating the value of sharing your experiences.
As the founder of the street portrait blog, Humans of New York, Brandon has emerged as a worldwide Internet phenomenon and one of today’s most influential storytellers. With millions of social media followers, his individual story, like those on HONY, illustrates the power of the Internet, the value of storytelling, and our desire to remain connected with real people in a tech-driven world.
Brandon’s gift for storytelling has since spawned two best-selling books, Humans of New York, which spent 45 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, and Humans of New York: Stories. His third and most recent book, Humans, was released in October 2020.
On stage, he candidly shares his own personal story, and the perspective he has gained since embarking on his journey to help others tell theirs. Listeners take away a renewed appreciation for the power of one person and one idea to inspire millions, and encouragement to be a force for good and contribute something meaningful to the world.
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Humans of New York: The Power of Authentic Storytelling
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Bryan Terrell Clark is currently starring in the groundbreaking play Thoughts of a Colored Man on Broadway. He has appeared in numerous television and streaming productions such as TNT’s Snowpiercer, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, When They See Us, Queen Sugar and Cherish the Day.
He will be seen next in Netflix’s Inventing Ana and Disney+’s Sneakerella in 2022. Clark’s other television credits include Empire, NCIS: New Orleans and Blue Bloods.
Bryan is well-known for his role as George Washington in Hamilton and as Marvin Gaye in Motown: The Musical. His additional theater credits include Fences, Immediate Family and the Sophisticated Ladies and His Girl Friday.
Clark is a songwriter and producer. He has performed with many artists, including Maxwell, Brandy, Ne-Yo, Anita Baker and Michael Bublé. He was a co-writer on Mary J. Blidge's \"Irreversible\" on the album \"My Life II.\"
In addition to performing, Clark co-founded inDEFINED, an initiative that inspires and teaches young people to use their voices to erase constrictive labels in our society. He created his production company Artists Park Productions in 2018.
Bryan is the recipient of the Icon Talks 2021 Visionary Award, Family Houston 2021 Pillar of Strength Award, Temple University’s 2019 Gallery of Success Award and the Rutgers University 2018 Voice for Social Justice Award.
Bryan Terrell Clark is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and Temple University.
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Finding Your Purpose: From Baltimore to Broadway’s Hamilton
Drawing on real-life lessons from his humble beginnings in Baltimore to his starring career on Broadway – most notably as George Washington in Hamilton: An American Musical – Bryan Terrell Clark inspires others to reach their full potential in life while leaving a positive impact on the world. Much like he does with his philanthropic lifestyle brand inDEFINED, Bryan uses exposure to the arts to empower young change-makers to dream big and discover the best version of themselves.
Master Class / Workshop
Bryan will work with a select group of students in a 60-90 minutes class on a chose theater discipline.
Workshop - Bryan’s Workshop is a power packed work session, sharpening the skills of students through Acting Exercises and/or Audition Techniques. He uses his tools, from Yale School of Drama and over 20 years of experience, to advance their work.
Master Class - Bryan works with students on material they’ve been working on (songs, monologues, or scenes) to take them to the next level and unlock their potential. Need a suggestion? Grab a scene or song from Hamilton! (Prior preparation by the class required)
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As Terrence Floyd once said, I am speaking for my brother. When Terrence speaks, he not only honors the life and legacy of his brother George Floyd who was murdered on May 25, 2020 at the hands of Minneapolis Police, but he uses his voice to uplift and galvanize a worldwide racial justice movement.
Since his brother’s tragic death, Terrence has served as a tireless community leader and grassroots organizer, sharing a message of unity, equality, criminal justice reform, and civil and human rights.
Terrence is a board member on The George Floyd Memorial Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit committed to building a just and equal society and ending systemic racism against Black people in America. He is also the founder of We Are Floyd, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit dedicated to honoring the life of George Floyd through community service and leadership and providing young people of color hope for the future.
With a mission of giving youth in America reason to believe in a better tomorrow, Terrence shares proactive solutions for ending racial and structural inequality in ways that bring about real and lasting change. He poignantly moves audiences with his brother’s story and inspires younger generations to make a difference, know their worth, and realize they too have a voice and a purpose that needs to be heard.
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In Conversation with Terrence Floyd
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Iconic activist Angela Davis has made it her mission to share her life story and challenge her audiences to join the struggle for racial, economic, and gender justice.
Angela has been deeply involved in some of the major social movements over the last 50 years. She was born and raised in Birmingham, Ala., by parents who were active community organizers. As a teenager, she marched and picketed against racial segregation. Angela went on earn a doctorate in philosophy. She became known as a radical feminist and activist, a member of the Communist Party USA, and an associate of the Black Panther Party.
Angela’s outspoken ways made her a focal point of criticism. Her Communist ties led then-California Governor Ronald Reagan in 1969 to try to bar her from teaching at any California university. The attempt failed; she is now professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in its History of Consciousness Department.
Angela became the center of a firestorm in the 70s, when she was prosecuted for three capital felonies, including conspiracy to murder, but was acquitted. The charges stemmed from Angela’s purchase of weapons for her personal bodyguards; these guards in turn used the guns for a hostage takeover of a California courtroom. Four people were killed in the ensuing gunfight. Angela became a fugitive and was listed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List.
During the 1980s, she was twice a candidate for Vice President with the Communist Party. She left the party in 1991.
Angela has campaigned for social justice – particularly with what she calls the “prison industrial complex” that has grown since the 80s with the emergence of the private-prison industry. She is one of the founders of Critical Resistance, a national grassroots organization fighting for changes in the prison system. Her books include Are Prisons Obsolete, Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prison, Torture, Empire, Abolition. Feminism. Now. (2022) and Angela Davis: An Autobiography (2022).
Angela writes and frequently speaks as part of her mission to build engaged communities that seek to reform the U.S. prison system. She urges her audience to “hone their critical skills, develop them and implement them\" while fighting for racial, economic and gender justice.

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Virtual Event: A Virtual Moderated Discussion on Democracy and Civil Engagement
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Michelle Alexander’s acclaimed best-seller, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness released a special 10th anniversary edition in January 2020. Her celebrated book peels back the curtain on systemic racism in the American prison system, which the New York Review of Books described as “striking in the intelligence of her ideas, her powers of summary, and the force of her writing.” With equal force and candor on stage, she takes a hard look at racial injustice in the modern legal system to reveal how mass incarceration has come to replace segregation.
In her acclaimed best-seller, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle peels back the curtain on systemic racism in the American prison system, which the New York Review of Books described as “striking in the intelligence of her ideas, her powers of summary, and the force of her writing.” With equal force and candor on stage, she breaks the silence about racial injustice in the modern legal system to reveal how mass incarceration has come to replace segregation.
Michelle, a legal scholar, social justice advocate, columnist at The New York Times and visiting professor at Union Theological Seminary, explores the myths surrounding our criminal justice system from a racial and ethical standpoint, and offers solutions for combating this epidemic. Delivering an emphatic wake-up call from the “colorblind slumber” that our country has fallen under, she leaves audiences with a new perspective on the challenges facing the civil rights community and a rousing call-to-action for a multi-racial, multi-ethnic human rights movement for justice in America.
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Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander is breaking the silence about racial injustice in the American legal system. In her book, The New Jim Crow, she explores the cultural biases that still exist and how segregation has been replaced by mass incarceration. Currently, there are more African Americans in prison than were enslaved in 1850. She blames the drug war for many of these, as people are then labeled as felons and stuck in an endless cycle of discrimination. How can they improve their lives when they can't get a job, housing or health benefits? In this moderated Q&A, the acclaimed civil rights lawyer explores the myths surrounding our criminal justice system from a racial and ethical standpoint, and offers solutions for combating this epidemic.
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