Stacey Abrams - First Black Woman to be a Gubernatorial Nominee of a Major Party in the US; Minority Leader of the Georgia House of Representatives (2011-2017)

  

Howard Dean - Former DNC Chairman; 79th Governor of Vermont; Founder, Democracy for America; MSNBC Contributor

  

Deval Patrick - Former Governor of Massachusetts and U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division; Senior Advisor of the Chicago Police Accountability Task Force

  

Jane Lute - Former Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations; Cybersecurity & Homeland Security Expert

Al Gore - Former Vice President of the United States

  

Jim Messina - Former Deputy Chief of Staff to President Obama and Campaign Manager, 2012 Obama Re-Election Campaign

  

Tina Tchen - Former Assistant to President Barack Obama; Former Chief of Staff to First Lady Michelle Obama; Spearheaded the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund

  

Philippe Reines - Long-Term Senior Advisor to Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton (2002- present)

  

Michael Nutter - 98th Mayor of Philadelphia; CNN Contributor

  

Andrew Young - Former Mayor of Atlanta, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and U.S. Representative from Georgia

  

Jennifer Granholm - 47th Governor of Michigan; Senior Political Commentator, CNN

  

Charles Rangel - Member, U.S. House of Representatives from New York (1971-2017); First African-American Chair, House Ways and Means Committee; Founding Member, Congressional Black Caucus

  

Ben Rhodes - Chief International Advisor for President Barack Obama

  

Donna Brazile - Veteran Democratic Political Strategist; Vice Chair of Voter Registration and Participation at the Democratic National Committee

  

Cody Keenan - White House Director of Speechwriting for President Barack Obama (2013-2017)

  

Elizabeth Sherwood Randall - Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy (2014-2017); Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European Affairs, National Security Council, The White House (2009-2013)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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