With over 26 years of experience, Felicia Leatherwood is the world's leading celebrity stylist and inspirational beauty speaker in regard to natural hair. With a social reach of over 250 thousand, she conducts hair care workshops for audiences around the globe under the brand and slogan "Loving Your Hair with Natural Care". 

Sophia Emmanuel is an IAT Certified Trichologist and licensed cosmetologist. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, and a minor in Computer Applications. In 2001, she graduated with her cosmetology license from Jane Addams Vocational High School.

Essence Gant is a media personality and the Beauty Director for BuzzFeed. She's especially passionate about representation and diversifying narratives to be more inclusive of under and misrepresented audiences. Essence has collaborated with major brands such as Nivea, State Farm and Macy's on social media and TV campaigns.

Dr. Kari is a Licensed Barber, Cosmetologist and Celebrity Hair Stylist. She has over 18 years of experience as a natural hair care specialist. She is a Board Certified Trichologist through the American Association of Drugless Practitioners, and the Founder & CEO of Mahogany Hair Revolution.

Dr. Tiffany M. Gill is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is the author of Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry, which received the 2010 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize by the Association of Black Women Historians.

Patrices transforms her clients’ understanding of what’s possible. By empowering them to free themselves of mediocrity and dissatisfaction, she supports them in stepping into their greatness. Her clients are CEOs, executives, entrepreneurs, and other coaches. 

Amy Bush has over 30 years hair care experience in the hair industry. She’s trained both nationally and internationally as well as collaborated with talented stylists to teach and develop others. In 2010, she opened the doors to Ambushed Salon, a curly hair only salon. 

Shelli started her blog, Hairscapades.com, because she loves reading, writing and talking about natural and curly hair. She shares what she's learned over the years and the things she continues to learn every day. Shelli has been able to grow her natural hair to waist length and transitioned from henna-dyed hair to her natural, grey color.

Dr. Marissa Rocourt is a Board Certified Internal Medicine Doctor with over twenty years experience.  Her private practice emphasizes health, wellness, and nutrition.  She develops treatment plans to help patients manage chronic diseases including diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and high cholesterol.  

A stylist with over 25 years of experience, Keya Neal is leading a national revolution that is breaking textural boundaries that has long separated those in the hair industry. Keya created Kolour Kulture, an educational resource for stylists who are particularly interested in the science of hair color and how it interacts with various hair textures. 

Nubia has over 30 years of experience in the hair and beauty industries’, both as an educator and master stylist. Nubia trained with top educators in business such as DEVACurl, Ouidad, Aveda, Goldwell and Paul Sebastian. Nubia created the RëzoCut because she is a passionate curlista, who is ready to show the world what's really behind every curly cut. 

Yessenia has approached hair styling as a way to help women appreciate and maintain healthy hair.  Yessenia’s enthusiasm for hair began 20 years ago. She  learned about precision hair cutting at Two Do Salon. She later trained at Hair Rules Salon in New York for five years before heading to Foster Glorioso, where she is now an independent Texture-ologist.

Joe Miguel Ortiz is a Dominican hairstylist  with over 10 years of experience in the industry. He has obtained certifications from Deva Curl as a Curly Hair Specialist, and has also attended the Vidal Sassoon academy for intense color and cutting technique class in Chicago, for which he obtained a master colorist certification.

Co-founders of Grind Over Matter Inc./Grind Over Matter Films. Their latest release is a documentary centered around the Natural Hair Phenomenon in America and Globally called "Natural Hair the Movie". Currently available on Amazon Prime.

Angela V. McKnightBioAngela V. McKnight,elected as the 1st African American Assemblywomanfor the 31st District for the State of New Jersey in 2015 and is serving her 3rd term. She sits on the following committees: Chairwoman of Homeland Security and State Preparedness, Health Committee and SeniorServices Committee.