KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Historian, Author, Lecturer on Women's Suffrage & Former Journalist

Professor of History; Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition at Yale University

Award-Winning Black & Indigenous Historian; Associate Professor at University of Pittsburgh; Author of "I’ve Been Here All the While"

Professor of History, Teaching & Technology; Known as the "Tattooed Professor"

Immigration Reform Activist & Actress Known for "Orange is the New Black" & "Jane The Virgin"

Expert on Race Relations; Host, "PBS History Detectives"; Professor of Race Relations at the University of Pennsylvania,

Educator, Writer & Researcher

Author & Historian

Award-Winning Writer, Food Politics Activist, Filmmaker & Academic

Historian Specializing in Cultural & Environmental Studies of the American West; Author of Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History

Author of "Freedom Summer"

Writer, Scholar & Distinguished Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico

Senior writer at POLITICO and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair

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

Founder & Chef of Momofuku Restaurant Group

CNN Political Analyst, Professor of History & Public Affairs at Princeton University

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

Professor of English at UCLA, Literary Critic & Specialist in Medieval Literature

Actress, Voice Artist, Activist, Author & Investor

Actor, Author and Advocate; Founder, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research