KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Award-Winning Filmmaker; Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University

Contemporary Artist

Artist, Designer, Educator & Disability Rights Activist

Motivational Speaker, Specializing in Presentations on Manhood Building

Expert on Race, Immigration & Mass Incarceration; Author, Professor of History, African American Studies & Urban Planning at UCLA

Author on Gender, Race & Ethnicity; Professor Emeritus of Legal Studies & Sociology at Kenyon College

Civil Rights Leader & Broadcast Executive; Founder, President & CEO of the Trumpet Awards Foundation

Entrepreneur & Leadership Speaker; Expert in African History

Actor, Producer, Activist, Author & Artist; Known for "Heroes" & "CSI: NY"

Professor of History at Smith College, Expert on The History of Race, Citizenship & Slavery; Author of "Colored Travelers"

Educator, Writer & Activist; First Woman of Color Elected President of the League of Women Voters

Activist, Multimedia Artist, Musician & Filmmaker; Director of "Whose Streets?"

Writer, Artist, Lecturer on Race, & Author Passionate About Storytelling and Fighting Recidivism

Artist Known for Controversial Exhibit "What Is the Proper Way to Display A U.S. Flag"

Emmy & Peabody Award-Winning Writer, Director & Producer; Known for "Selma," "When They See Us" & "13th"; Founder of ARRAY

Design Director, Anti-Incarceration Advocate, Architect

Professor of History, Race & Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School; Author of "The Condemnation of Blackness"

Award-Winning Photographer & Visual Artist Examining Racial, Gender, and Cultural Identity

Award-Winning Entrepreneur; "Shark Tank" Investor; Founder & CEO of FUBU; Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship

Former NFL Football Player; Vietnam Veteran & Purple Heart Recipient; Inspiring Veteran's Advocate