KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker; Bestselling Author of Historical & Transcultural Novels and Memoirs

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

Award-Winning Director, Writer, Producer & Documentary Filmmaker on Culture, History, Politics, Sports, Art, Architecture, Literature, and Music

Author, Musician, Activist, Founder of The Slants

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

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author & Journalist; Author of "Enrique’s Journey"

Culinary Historian & Author of "Rice: a Savor the South cookbook" (Savor the South Cookbooks)

Professor of History; Director of the Center for the Study of Race & Ethnicity in America at Brown University

Historian; Author, "America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia" & "The Making of Asian America"

Equity Advocate, TED Speaker & Author

Acclaimed Journalist Known for Being Detained in North Korea; Host of "E! Investigates;" Co-Author of "Somewhere Inside"

Co-Founder of the United Farm Workers of America; First Latina Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame; Two-Time U.S. Presidential Award Recipient

Geriatrician, Author of "Elderhood"

Award-Winning Author of "Halsey Street" & "What’s Mine and Yours"

Native Author, Speaker, Storyteller

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist; Critic-At-Large for The New York Times; Co-Host of "Still Processing" Podcast

Correspondent on NPR's Science Desk & Co-Host of Invisibilia

Engineer, Former NASA Astronaut & Former NFL Wide Receiver

Host of "This Old House" on PBS

Acclaimed Actor, Producer & Leading Social Activist