A master neuroscientist from Chicago who has combined his studies on astrophysical chemistry and the inner workings of the brain. For over for decades, his creative work stretches our minds beyond the normal perspectives to see new ways of perceiving melanin functioning.

Retired innovative chemist who helped set the foundation for melanin studies from an African/Black perspective. His 1988 seminal work, Melanin: The Chemical Key to Black Greatness, set the groundwork for further exploration into the unique properties of melanin functioning.

Master illustrator, foundational author and memory recovery specialist who managed and maintained the only excavation site in Kemet controlled by an African/Black scientist. Along with his creation of the Institute for Karmic Guidance Cultural Resource Center and past organizer of melanin conferences, he is the founder of the ASA Restoration Project which excavated the Lost Tomb of Karakhamun.

Retired Professor of Anatomy and Hematology in the Biology Department at Medgar Evers College in New York. She is a master teacher who has researched, presented and written on melanin for over five decades, and she is the co-author of Why Darkness Matters: The Power of Melanin in the Brain.

Retired Clinical Psychologist and ex-Director of Behavioral Medicine at the University of Amherst in MA who has taken a deep dive into research on the role of neuromelanin in mental functioning. His scholarly work has been foundational in redefining consciousness and melanin functioning.

Major independent black bookstore owner who has outlasted and survived other bookstores as well as the significant changes in the economy and the literary world to consistently provide the Atlanta, Georgia vicinity with books and lectures to nurture the minds of African/Black people who seek knowledge and truth. For over 35 years, the MEDU Bookstore has been critical to the consciousness of the southeast of the USA, and she will retire one month after the Blueprint for Pigment Power Conference.

Retired medical doctor from Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia who is a modern-day Imhotep and who is the pre-eminent African Historiographer with several major scholarly publications on science and technology. He has been at the forefront of uncovering the deep history of African/Black people and the medical science created and developed by people of African descent.

Retired master educator from New York who has influenced the development of educational systems throughout the USA and the diaspora. He is an international Pan-African Conscious teacher who has written critical texts on science and melanin.

Retired medical doctor, author and critically acclaimed melanin scientist who has been at the forefront of melanin studies from an African/Black perspective. Her numerous books, lectures and commitments to the community have been recognized as foundational knowledge for truth seekers. Her creation of the Jewel Network, the Melanology Hour, the Brain Balancing Program and a university called JUIS demonstrates a commitment to raising the consciousness of melanin-dominant people.