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After more than 150 women came forward to speak out about the sexual abuse inflicted by world-renowned sports physician Larry Nassar, former U.S. Olympic gymnast Shannon Miller is making it her mission to change the sport. The most decorated Olympic gymnast in American history, Miller recently sat down in an interview with The Today Show, saying "significantly more has to happen."

One of the first women in Hollywood to speak out against Harvey Weinstein, APB speaker and Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning actress Mira Sorvino was recognized at last night’s Golden Globes. Blacklisted in Hollywood for years for refusing Weinstein’s advances, Sorvino is at the center of the #MeToo movement and gave rise to last night’s wearing of black in support of victims of sexual harassment.

She has joked with Jimmy Fallon on the Tonight Show. Was honored by the United Nations. Chatted about business outlooks with leaders in the automotive industry. And was recently named the first non-human citizen of Saudi Arabia. Now, she is working with the most innovative speakers bureau in the industry, appearing at high-profile events and conferences worldwide.

After six decades covering every major event and every living president since Eisenhower, venerated journalist and APB speaker Dan Rather writes, “I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do.” His new book of original essays, What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism takes on the toxic political atmosphere and polarized opinions of our times with a hopeful reminder of the core ideals that all Americans share.

APB speaker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has been nominated for a NAACP Image Award for Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court. The book, written especially for young readers, chronicles how Abdul-Jabbar overcame a childhood made difficult by racism and prejudice to become a basketball legend and icon.

APB speaker Gina McCarthy, former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has been appointed Professor of the Practice of Public Health in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

As featured opening and closing speakers at the inaugural Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago this week, APB’s Anand Giridharadas and Eric Liu inspired audiences with their visions of the American Dream, democracy and creating change.

With the release of the new major motion picture, MARSHALL, John Marshall, son of the nation’s first African-American Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall,  is welcoming renewed interest in his father’s legacy as a groundbreaking champion of civil rights.

Marking the close of her final term as President of Liberia, APB speaker and Nobel Peace Laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf addressed the UN General Assembly, highlighting Liberia’s advances and celebrating an unprecedented transfer of power for a country that endured a decade of civil war.

On October 1, 2017, over 55 people were killed and over 500 people were injured by a gunman in Las Vegas, making it the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history. On June 16, 2016, 49 people were killed and dozens were wounded at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida. APB speaker and Pulse Nightclub survivor Angel Colon recently made a statement regarding these devastating patterns of mass shootings: