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Acclaimed Journalist Known for Being Detained in North Korea; Host of "E! Investigates;" Co-Author of "Somewhere Inside"

Best-Selling Author of "I Can't Date Jesus"

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

New York Best-Selling Novelist of "The Ghost Bride" & "The Night Tiger"

Author of "Heads of the Colored People"

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Known for "In The Heights;" Author Known for "My Broken Language"

Award-Winning Director, Writer, Producer & Documentary Filmmaker on Culture, History, Politics, Sports, Art, Architecture, Literature, and Music

Native Author, Speaker, Storyteller

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

Award-Winning Author of "The Four Winds," "The Nightingale" & "Firefly Lane"

Bestselling Novelist and Co-Founder of "The Camellia Network"

Author of Contemporary Crime & Supernatural Fiction, Known for "The Ridge"

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

Best-Selling Author Known for "Call Me by Your Name"; Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature

News Anchor at CNN International

Author of "All the Birds in the Sky"; Co-Host of "Our Opinions Are Correct" Podcast; Commentator

Former Co-Host of CBS “The Talk,” NYT Bestselling Author, Award-Winning Journalist & Former Editor-in-Chief of Teen Vogue

Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania

White House Correspondent, MSNBC Political Analyst, D.C. Bureau Chief for TheGrio & Author

President & Chief Operating Officer of the Skoll Foundation