"Filmmaker, producer and director DuVernay is the first black woman to be nominated by the Academy as a director in a feature category." — Forbes
- Taylor Swift, Musician
- Judy Faulkner, CEO and Founder, Epic Systems
- Güler Sabanci, Chairman and Managing Director, Sabanci Holding
- Kathleen Kennedy, President, Lucasfilm
- Mette Frederiksen, Prime Minister, Denmark
- Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Minister of Finance, Indonesia
- Andrea Marques de Almeida, CFO, Petrobras
- Solina Chau, Director, Li Ka Shing Foundation
- Ava DuVernay, Producer, Director
- Zuzana Caputova, President, Slovakia