KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

NYT Bestselling Author & Award-Winning Playwright; Co-Founder of The Origin Project

Award-Winning Author of "The Four Winds," "The Nightingale" & "Firefly Lane"; Authority in Historical Fiction

Award-Winning Poet, Essayist, & Memoirist; Known for "The Liars' Club"; Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University

Award-Winning Author, Humorist and NPR Commentator

Actress, Producer & Chief Executive Officer at PATTERN

Writer, Humorist & Mental Health Advocate; NYT Bestselling Author of "Let's Pretend This Never Happened," "Furiously Happy," & "You Are Here and Broken"

Award-Winning Novelist, Artist, TED Speaker & Head of Institutional Marketing Strategy and Planning at Vanguard

Founder & Executive Director of the Freedom Writers Foundation; Education Reform Advocate

Award-Winning & Bestselling Novelist Known for the "Wicked" Series

Feminist, Social Activist, Professor & Writer

Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award-Winning Author Known for "The Color Purple"; Social Justice Activist

Psychologist, Bestselling Author, Co-founder of Challenge Success

Bestselling Author, Creative Writing Instructor, Award-Winning Novelist

World-Famous Animal Scientist, Autism Advocate & Author of "Thinking in Pictures: My Life With Autism"

Social Entrepreneur, Change Agent & Author of "Purposeful Hustle"; Host of "Uplifting Impact" Podcast; Advocate of Inclusion & Belonging in the Workplace

Business Leader & Corporate Trainer; Author of "Who Made These Stupid Rules?"; Sales & Marketing Growth Innovator

Bestselling Author, Senior Fellow at Duke University, Entrepreneur

NFL Super Bowl Champion, Founder of Oher Foundation, Bestselling Author

CEO & Founder of Zuckerberg Media; Founder of HUG for Creative Artists; Women in Crypto Advocate

Journalist, Author & Co-Anchor of "CBS Evening News"