DREAMLEAPERS® with Harriette Cole

This week on DREAMLEAPERS® with Harriette Cole, we welcome Tamar Huggins, an award-winning AI strategist, cultural futurist, and tech founder who has spent more than 15 years working at the intersection of technology, education, and cultural innovation. As artificial intelligence continues to reshape how we live, work, and connect, Tamar explores the deeper questions surrounding identity, cultural...

This week on DREAMLEAPERS® with Harriette Cole, we welcome Elaine Meryl Brown, Daytime Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, storyteller, and bestselling author whose remarkable career includes leadership roles at HBO and Showtime. Drawing from decades of experience in entertainment, publishing, and corporate leadership, Elaine shares valuable insights from her latest book, The Next Little Black Bo...

Join Harriette Cole for an inspiring conversation with Teri Agins, award-winning journalist, lecturer, columnist, and author who helped redefine fashion journalism. As the pioneering reporter who established the fashion industry beat at The Wall Street Journal, Agins spent decades exploring the intersection of fashion, business, celebrity, and culture. From breaking barriers in journalism to uncov...

In this episode of DREAMLEAPERS® with Harriette Cole, Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III and his son, award-winning filmmaker Eli Moss, join Harriette for a powerful conversation about faith, family legacy, voting rights, and the transformative power of storytelling. Together, they discuss Otis' Dream, a moving short film inspired by their family's history and their great-grandfather's unsuccessful attempt to...

Paul Tazewell is an award-winning American costume designer celebrated for his groundbreaking work across Broadway, film, and television. His acclaimed credits include Hamilton, The Wiz, West Side Story, and Wicked. In 2025, Tazewell made history as the first Black man to win the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for Wicked. Known for his exceptional creativity, attention to detail, and abilit...

Janai S. Nelson is a nationally recognized civil rights attorney, election law scholar, and President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), America's first civil rights law organization. A leading advocate for racial justice and voting rights, Nelson has dedicated her career to advancing equality, protecting democracy, and challenging systemic discrimina...

April Ryan is a veteran White House correspondent, political analyst, author, and speaker who has covered the White House since 1997. She is the longest-serving Black White House correspondent in U.S. history, having reported across six presidential administrations. Ryan currently serves as a White House correspondent for The Contrarian, a political analyst for MS NOW, and host of The Tea with Apr...

This week on DREAMLEAPERS® with Harriette Cole, Harriette welcomes Dr. Janet Taylor, psychiatrist and self-care expert, for a timely conversation about mental health, wellness, and the importance of caring for yourself while navigating the demands of everyday life. Dr. Taylor brings her expertise and perspective to a meaningful discussion designed to encourage listeners to prioritize their emotion...

Elizabeth Alexander is a prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author, renowned poet, educator, scholar, and cultural advocate. Her memoir, The Light of the World, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award. She composed and recited "Praise Song for the Day" for President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration and is currently president of the Mellon Foundation,...

Dionne Williams is owner of D. Williams Public Relations & Event Management Group which specializes in public relations, brand strategy, experiential services, content creation, influencer marketing and event management. In over 25 years in the public relations arena Dionne has developed a proven track record for providing quality public relations campaigns and concepts that are executed in nation...

Founder and CEO, Heidi Krupp, is a powerhouse in the world of marketing, promotion, and media. For 30 years, her namesake PR agency has helped people and brands reach new heights by using intuition to create a vision and data to deliver results. By consciously connecting her network of influencers, media, and personalities, she has cultivated unparalleled relationships across the industry, advocat...

Named to Ebony Magazine’s “Power 100” of influential Black Americans and JetMagazine’s 40 under 40, Atima Omara is a multiple award-winning political andadvocacy strategist, leader, advocate, and author of The Instigators: How BlackWomen Are Essential to Democracy, and What We Can Learn from Them. She hasdedicated nearly two decades to engaging youth, women, and people of color in the political pr...

One of the nation's most prominent scholars, Dr. Eddie S. Glaude Jr., is aneducator, author, political commentator, and public intellectual who examines thecomplex dynamics of the American experience. His writings, includingDemocracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul, In a Shade of Blue:Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America, and his New York Times bestseller,Begin Again: J...

Mary Chatman is a visionary servant leader and proud purveyor of Black Love stories. She is the Owner, CEO, Editor-in-Chief, and Publisher of Black Bride Magazine and Black Bride, the iconic multicultural bridal and lifestyle brand celebrating couples of color since 1998. After a successful corporate career at AT&T, Mary retired early to pursue an entrepreneurial journey rooted in purpose, love, a...

Harriette Cole sits down with Marc Howland, Co-Founder and CEO of Breadless, the Detroit-born fast-casual brand reimagining the sandwich by replacing bread with nutrient-rich leafy greens. Howland shares his unconventional journey from Brown University and Harvard Business School to Goldman Sachs and The Carlyle Group—and ultimately working behind the counter at a sandwich shop to learn the restau...

Ashton Lattimore is an award-winning author, journalist, and former lawyer. Herdebut novel, ALL WE WERE PROMISED, was a Book of the Month Club pick,a Washington Post and NPR Best Book of 2024, and one of PEOPLE Magazine'sBest New Books for April 2024. The book also received the First Novelist Awardfrom the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. By day, Ashton is the executive editor of...

Sanford Biggers’ work is an interplay of narrative, perspective, and history that speaks to current happenings while examining the contexts that bore them. His diverse practice positions him as a collaborator with the past through explorations of often-overlooked aesthetic, cultural, historical, and political narratives through his use of antique quilts and textiles, classical sculptures from arou...

Alana Raquel Bowers is an actor, performer, producer, and creative artist from Baltimore, Maryland. A graduate of the Baltimore School for the Arts, she earned her BFA in Drama from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she also studied Sociology and Africana Studies. Her work spans Broadway, Off-Broadway, television, and film. She made her Broadway debut in Chicken & Biscuits and...

Audrey Lavinia Smaltz was born and raised in Harlem and began her career asa model and salesperson at Bloomingdale’s before moving to Lane BryantClothing and Ebony Fashion Fair as a commentator and fashion editor. In 1977,Smaltz established Ground Crew, a backstage management group staffing fashionshows for Vera Wang, Giorgio Armani, Betsey Johnson, Oscar de la Renta, BillBlass, Alice Roi, Michael...

Dr. Donna Oriowo (pronounced Oreo-Whoa!) is a first-generation, first-born Nigerian American therapist, internationally recognized keynote speaker, award-winning DEI advocate, and two-time published author whose work sits at the intersection of Black mental health, self-esteem, sexuality, and racial justice. With a Ph. D. in Human Sexuality, licensure as a Clinical Social Worker (LICSW), and certi...

Who's that girl.......A singer/songwriter and native of Greensboro, NC, Shelby J. has been described as “a lil’ bit of Mavis Staples with James Brown ENERGY, and a lil’ Carole King on the side.” With her decade as a part of Prince’s band, The New Power Generation (NPG), Shelby also performed in the rain with Prince for the Super Bowl LXI Halftime Show in Miami. She is widely known as the “bald bea...

TOM JUNOD is senior writer for ESPN, where his work has won an Emmy and the DanJenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting. He is a two-time winner of the NationalMagazine Award for Feature Writing, and a winner of the James Beard Award for essaywriting. Previously he was a staff writer at GQ and Esquire. The film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood was based on his article in Esquire. In March,...

Tony Award-winning advocate and artist Britton Smith bridges performance, activism, and community empowerment. As co-founder of the Broadway Advocacy Coalition (BAC) and co-author of the Theater of Change methodology at Columbia Law School, he uses storytelling to challenge systemic injustice. As frontman of Britton & The Sting, a funk liberation band, he spreads queer holiness and authenticity as...

Tarana Burke is an activist, advocate, author, and the founder of the Me Too movement. For more than 25 years, she has dedicated her life to supporting survivors of sexual violence, fostering healing, and advancing social justice through grassroots organizing and community empowerment. Widely recognized for creating the phrase "Me Too" in 2006, Burke's work has transformed a simple message of empa...

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