KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Founder & Executive Director of L.O.V.E. Mentoring; Social Entrepreneur; Changemaker

Education Advocate, Author & Strategist; Speaker on Innovation, Teaching, Learning, and Education Policy

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

Founder & CEO of Youth Equity Platform Chicago Beyond; Star of CNN's Documentary Series "Chicagoland"

Best-Selling Author, Tech Entrepreneur, Investor, Philanthropist & Actor; Best Known For "CSI: NY" & "The Good Doctor"

Motivational Speaker on DEI, Workplace Wellness, Leadership & Improving Education; Youth Empowerment, Family Enhancement, Anti-Bullying & Social Justice Activist; Known as "Mr. I'm Possible"

Attorney & Activist Dubbed "The People's Lawyer;" Founder of Merritt Law Firm

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

Co-Founder & Executive Director of UrbEd Inc., Advocate for Public Education & Frederick Douglass Distinguished Scholar

Chief Advocacy Officer of RAICES & DREAMer

2021 National Teacher of the Year

One of the Nation’s Leading Innovators, Provocateurs, & Thought Leaders on African American Youth, Youth Activism, & Youth Development; PhD, Author & Professor

Ecuadoran Immigration Activist; Executive Director & Co-Founder of United We Dream (UWD)

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

Climate Change Activist; Author; Founder & Co-Executive Director of Youth-Led Climate Action Group "Zero Hour"

Community Organizer, Journalist, Political Activist, President & Founder of Know Thy Self Productions

National Leader in the LGBTQ Immigrant Rights Movement; Deputy Director at Mijente

Scholar, Artist, Poet, Activist & Public Intellectual

Professor of Sociology at Duke University & Author of "Racism without Racists"

Motivational Business Transformation Speaker; Team Building Coach; Empowerment Speaker on Mindset & Mindfulness; Author of "Without A Voice: A Woman's Journey to Resiliency"