Dr. Joy Harden Bradford is a Licensed Psychologist, Speaker, Media Personality, host of the wildly popular mental health podcast, Therapy for Black Girl, and the author of Sisterhood Heals: The Transformative Power of Healing In Community. Her work focuses on making mental health topics more relevant and accessible for Black women and she delights in using pop culture to illustrate psychological concepts.  Named by Glamour Magazine as a Game Changer for her work in the mental health field, she received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Xavier University of Louisiana, her Master’s degree in Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling from Arkansas State, and her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from The University of Georgia.  Her work has been featured in Essence, Forbes, MTV, Huffington Post, Black Enterprise, Refinery29, Teen Vogue, and Women’s Health. Dr. Joy lives in Atlanta, GA with her husband and two sons. 

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Kenan Thompson is an American actor and comedian.

He has been a cast member of the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live since 2003, and is the longest-tenured cast member in the show’s history (as of 2018).

In his teenage years, he was an original cast member of Nickelodeon’s sketch comedy series All That.

Thompson has also played Kenan Rockmore in the sitcom Kenan & Kel, Russ Tyler in The Mighty Ducks franchise, Dexter Reed in the 1997 film Good Burger, and the title character in the 2004 film Fat Albert.

Thompson has been nominated for five Emmy Awards: four for his work on Saturday Night Live — including two for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics and two for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series — and one in the category of Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for the NBC series Kenan.

He has won once, in 2018, in the category of Outstanding Original Music & Lyrics, for the SNL song “Come Back, Barack.”

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Joy-Ann Reid is a journalist, author, documentary film producer and social and political commentator with a 30-plus year history in the media business.

For five years, from July 2020 until February 2025 she hosted the two-time NAACP Award-winning and Emmy nominated nightly news analysis program, “The ReidOut” on MSNBC. Prior to that she hosted the weekend program: “A.M. Joy” (2016-2020) which became MSNBC’s highest ever rated weekend program, and a daily news show: “The Reid Report” from 2014-2015. As a national correspondent for MSNBC, Reid covered Black Lives Matter cases from Trayvon Martin to Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Breonna Taylor and Tyre Nichols, to the removal of the confederate flag from the South Carolina capitol, an alleged lynching in Mississippi and the burning of Southern Black churches.

Reid has written four books including two New York Times best sellers: Medgar and Myrlie; a New York Times number one bestseller and The Man Who Sold America, which spent four weeks on the list; as well as Fracture: Barack Obama, The Clintons and the Racial Divide and We are the Change We Seek: the speeches of Barack Obama (with Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne) as well as the foreword to Kamala Harris: The Official White House Photos.

Reid graduated from Harvard University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual and Environmental Studies with a concentration in documentary film. She is a 2003 Knight Center for Advanced Journalism fellow and served as a press secretary for the national voter registration and mobilization entity, America Coming Together in 2004 and for the Florida branch of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008.

She has received six NAACP Image Award nominations and “The ReidOut” received the award for best talk program in 2020. Reid received the NAACP Image Award for Best News and Information Host in 2025 and for best Biography for Medgar and Myrlie. The documentary she co-Executive Produced: The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts the Tonight Show (directed by Yoruba Richen) was nominated for an Emmy, and she has received awards from the Women’s Media Center, the National Action Network, and GLAAD. Reid, who hosts a podcast with legendary broadcaster Jacque Reid called “Reid This, Reid That,” became an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated in November 2021.

She and her husband Jason run a documentary film production company, Image Lab Media Goup.

Tamika D. Mallory is a bestselling author, award-winning social justice leader, and movement strategist. A powerful and influential organizer, she has been at the forefront of major justice movements, from fighting voter suppression to advocating for Breonna Taylor.

As the youngest-ever Executive Director of the civil rights organization, National Action Network, Tamika helped create New York City’s $100 million Crisis Management System for gun violence intervention and prevention. She made history as a national co-chair of the 2017 Women’s March, the largest single-day demonstration in U.S. history.

In 2020, Tamika’s impassioned speech during the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis went viral, resonating with millions around the world and becoming the foundation for her bestselling book, STATE OF EMERGENCY: How We Win in the Country We Built, a powerful call to action for systemic change. In early 2025, she released I LIVED TO TELL THE STORY, a coming-of-age memoir that offers a deeply personal reflection on her journey as a curious young girl growing up in Harlem, NY to an internationally known activist.

Now, as co-founder of Until Freedom, she continues her work organizing and advocating for marginalized communities. She also serves as co-host and executive producer of the TMI Podcast (Tamika & Mysonne’s Information) on iHeart Radio’s Black Effect Network.

Named one of Time 100’s Most Influential People and featured on Fortune’s list of the World’s Greatest Leaders, Tamika has received numerous honors, including the Phoenix Award from the Congressional Black Caucus.

Tamika remains relentless in her mission to empower and uplift disenfranchised communities, standing firm on the frontlines for freedom and equality—all while embracing her most cherished roles as a mother and grandmother.