KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Consultant, TEDx Speaker, Educator, Author

Writer, Educator, Artist, Women and LGBT Advocate

Poet, Educator, Actor & Community Organizer

EGOT Winning Musician, Producer & Philantropist

Co-Founder & Executive Director of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN)

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

Political Activist & Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party

Award-Winning Photographer & Human Rights Activist

Economist, Author & Political Commentator; President Emerita of Bennett College for Women

Academy Award-Winning Writer, Producer, Actor & Director; Best Known for "BlacKkKlansman" & "Malcolm X"

Visual Artist, Photographer, Co-Director of "Difficult Love"

Minister, Attorney, Author & Daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Scholar, Author, Professor, Civil Rights Historian & Director of The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

Feminist, Social Activist, Professor & Writer

Award-Winning Author, Producer, Director & CEO of Social Impact Firm Inspire Justice

National Youth Poet Laureate & Activist

Ghanaian Poet, Author, Literary Critic, Media Practitioner & Activist

Attorney, Author & LGBTQ Rights Activist; Motivational Disability Speaker; Founder of the Trans People of Color Coalition