Johann Olav Koss Four-time Olympic Gold Medalist, Speed Skating; Physician; Special Representative of Sport, UNICEF; Ambassador, Olympic Aid; Founder, Sport Humanitarian Group; Founder, Sport in a Box (for refugees); Chair, MOT (Courage); Honorary Sports Ambassador to the Eritrean Government; Member, Executive Board, International Olympic Committee 2000 Commission; Member, Athlete's Commission and Medical Commission, International Olympic Committee; Chair, Norwegian Government Forum against Drugs and Doping; 1994 Sports Illustrated Man of the Year; One of Time Magazine's 100 Future Leaders of Tomorrow; One of the World Economic Forum's 1000 Global Leaders; Recipient, The Jesse Owens Award; Recipient, Jackie Robinson Humanitarian Award.
Richard Lapchick Director, The Center for the Study of Sport in Society, Northeastern University; he organized the international sports boycott against racially segregated South Africa; Author, The Politics of Race and International Sport: The Case of South Africa, Sport in Society: Equal Opportunity or Business as Usual?, Fractured Focus: Sport as a Reflection of Society, Rules of the Game: Ethics in College Sport, and Five Minutes to Midnight: Race and Sport in the 1990s; Publisher, Racial Report Card; Advisor, Rainbow Coalition on Fairness in Sport; Advisor, Players Associations, NBA, NFL, MLB; Recipient, Ralph Bunch International Peace Award
US Representative Patsy Mink U.S. Representative, Hawaii; integral in the writing and passing of Title IX legislation, Education and Reform Act 1972; Former Assistant Secretary of State; Member, Education and Workforce Committee, U.S. Congress; Chair, Congressional Asian Pacific Caucus; Co-Chair, Education Task Force, Democratic Caucus; Chair, Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues Task Force on Economic and Educational Equity; Recipient, 1995 Women at Work Public Policy Award; Recipient, 1975 Human Rights Award, American Federation of Teachers; Attorney
