Diversity Topics

LZ Granderson is a political contributor and host of the Life Out Loud podcast for ABC News.

An award-­winning author, speaker, consultant, and television host.

Larry Gilliard, Jr. is an American character actor who has appeared in films.

LisaGay Hamilton is an American director, and film, television.

Hile Lorrie Bartlett might not be a familiar name to those outside the acting realm, she has emerged.

Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a member of the Career Foreign Service,

Lisa W. Wardell is President and Chief Executive Officer of Adtalem Global Education.

Melissa Jefferson, better known by her stage name Lizzo, is an alternative hip-hop artist who originated in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Lydia X. Z. Brown is an abolitionist disability justice advocate.

Lalita Tademy's own journey is a remarkable one. Before writing Cane River she was one of the country's most promising young executives.

Lawrence Hill is the son of American immigrants — a black father and a white mother.

Lamman Rucker is an Actor, Educator, Activist and Entrepreneur.

With various ‘firsts’ in her already impressive career, Laverne Cox is a four-time Emmy-nominated actress.

Chosen as one of VARIETY’S “Top Ten Actors to Watch” and part of the new breed of Hollywood leading men, Laz Alonso stars.

From education to activism, Liz Dozier has spent her career working tirelessly to disrupt the culture of inequity.

Lex Gillette is the best totally blind long and triple jumper in the history of the U.S. Paralympic movement.

Lerato "Lee" Mokobe is a slam poet who explores social injustice and gender identity issues.

Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University and founding president of the Learning Policy Institute.