KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Newbery Medal-Winning Author of "Number the Stars" and "The Giver"

Journalist & Best-Selling Author

Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award-Winning Author; Best Known for "The Color Purple"

Author Known for "Landline," "Attachments," "Fangirl," "Eleanor & Park" & "Carry On"

Author, Award-Winning Foreign & War Correspondent; Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School & Executive Director The Reckoning Project

International Award-Winning Fantasy & Science Fiction Author

NYT Bestselling Author Known for "Esperanza Rising" & "Becoming Naomi León"

Children's Books Author & Illustrator Known for "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"

Author of "The Hunger Games" Trilogy

NYT Best-Selling Author, Angel Investor, CEO of Renegade Global & Host of the "Why Not Now?" Podcast

Professor; Science Historian; Philosopher; Author of "The Philosophical Breakfast Club"

Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, "The Virgin Suicides," "Middlesex," and "The Marriage Plot"

Former Editor-In-Chief of Cosmopolitan Magazine; New York Times Best-Selling Author

New York Times Best-Selling Author, Spiritual Life Coach & Host of "Iyanla Fix My Life"

Founder and Editor of Online Women's Magazine, Jezebel. Editor, writer (Glamour, NY Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, New Yorker.com, many others.)

Social Entrepreneur, Change Agent & Author of "Purposeful Hustle"; Advocate of Inclusion and Belonging in the Workplace

New York Times Best-Selling Author

Award Winning Author, Historian & Feminist

Award-Winning Novelist; Known for "Black Mamba Boy"

Poet, Educator, Publisher, Emmy Award Winning Producer & New York Times Bestselling Author Known for "The Crossover"