KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Academy Award-Winning Writer, Producer, Actor & Director; Best Known for "BlacKkKlansman" & "Malcolm X"

Singer-Songwriter, Rapper, Actress & LGBTQ Advocate

Tony Award-Winning Entertainer

Award-Winning Actor, Comedian, Writer, Director & Musician; Performs as Childish Gambino

Award-Winning Artist, Actor, Producer, Musician & Writer

Director, Film Produce & Actor; Best Known for Directing "Straight Outta Compton" & "The Italian Job"

Rapper, Actor, Producer, Director & Writer Known for "21 Jumpstreet" and "Straight Outta Compton"

Writer & Director of the Academy Award-Winning "Moonlight"

Academy Award-Nominated Director & Producer Known for "Selma," "13th" & "When They See Us"

Rapper, Record Producer & Actor Known for "Law & Order: SVU"

Writer, Director and Producer; Known for "Django Unchained" &"House Party"; One Half of Hudlin Brothers Production Company

Singer, Songwriter, Record Producer, Music Video Director & Fashion Designer

Director, Producer & Screenwriter; Known for "The Wood" and "Brown Sugar"

Film Director Known for "Ride Along" & "Think Like A Man"

Author, Feminist, Transgender Rights Activist, TV Host & Founder of #GirlsLikeUs

Cultural Critic, Award-Winning Filmmaker & Executive Producer of "Surviving R.Kelly"

Filmmaker, Producer, Actor & Academy Award-Winning Screenwriter; Known for "Get Out" & "Us"

Singer-Songwriter & Grammy & Tony Award-Winning Actress; Known for "The Color Purple," "Wicked" & Portraying Harriet Tubman in "Harriet"; Vice President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts

Director & Writer Known for "Daughters of the Dust"; First Black Woman to Direct A Full-Length General Theatrical Release Film in the U.S.

Award-Winning Actor, Producer & Director; Best Known for "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" & "The Last King of Scotland"