KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Award-Winning Author, Writer & Feminist Known for "My Sister, the Serial Killer"

Co-Founder of Very Smart Brothas & Author of "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker"

Contributing Editor at Catapult & Author of "This Will Be My Undoing"

Editorial Director of National Geographic Partners & Editor in Chief of National Geographic Magazine

Writer, Editor & Author of "The Power of Strangers"

Editor, Author & Digital Media Consultant

Author of "The Dig"

Contributing Editor at New York Magazine & Author of "Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork"

Co-host of The Cool Parts Show, Manufacturing Expert, 3D Printing Expert, Editor of Additive Manufacturing & Modern Machine Shop Magazines

Humanist, Secularist & Universal Liberal

Staff Writer at the New Yorker & Author

Author, Educator, Former Development Consultant to Intel & Levi Strauss

Historian, Professor, Author of "An African American History of the United States"

Anti-Racist Professional Development Specialist, Leadership Coach, Writer

Co-Founder & Managing Editor of The Beat DC; Host of "Cross Connection" on MSNBC

Fashion Editor for The Washington Post; Pulitzer Prize Winner

Award-Winning Investigative Journalist, Texas Monthly Executive Editor & Heart Disease Expert

National Book Award Longlisted Poet

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

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