KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

Best-Selling Author Known for the "Goosebumps" Series

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

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

Nature Writer & Photographer; Bestselling Author of "A Wolf Called Romeo"

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

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

Vietnam War Veteran & Author of "Matterhorn" and "What it is Like to Go to War"

Journalist; Editor and Writer at TIME MAGAZINE. Author of 8 books, including APOLLO 13.

Journalist Specialized in Education Technology News and Analysis

New York Times Best-Selling Author, Podcast Host & Speaker

Writer & Social Activist Known for Her Work on Issues of Race & Identity; Author of "So You Want to Talk About Race"

New York Times Best-Selling Author

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

4x TED Speaker, Co-Founder of Cuddlr, Entrepreneurial Coach, Author of "Career Remix: Get the Gig You Want with the Skills You've Got"

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

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

New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Author of the "Throne of Glass" Series

Legendary Pulitzer Prize-Winning Investigative Journalist; 22-Time Best-Selling Author & Associate Editor at The Washington Post

Award-Winning Writer, Former Broadway Dancer