KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Scholar & Activist; Distinguished Professor Emerita at UC Santa Cruz; Author of "Are Prisons Obsolete?"; Founding Member of Critical Resistance

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

Civil Rights Leader & Broadcast Executive; Founder, President & CEO of the Trumpet Awards Foundation

Global Nonviolence & Peace Advocate; CEO at The King Center; Author of "Hard Questions, Heart Answers"; Civil Rights Leader

Influential Voice at the Intersection of Politics, Public Policy & Civil Rights; Former Senior Advisor to Two Historic U.S. Presidential Candidates

Anti-Racist Essayist, Author & Educator; Expert on Systemic Racism & Advocate for Belonging

President & CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights; Digital Equity & Inclusion Speaker

Activist, Mental Health Advocate & Co-Founder & Head of Education at FEMINIST; Bestselling Author of "Read This to Get Smarter"

Scholar & Social Justice Advocate; Founding Director of the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society; Award-Winning Author and Expert on the Interplay of Gender, Race, and Class

Social Justice Leader, Movement Strategist & Activist

Peabody Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker; Known For TED Talk on the Intersection of Civil Rights & LGBT Rights

Civil Rights Activist, Sociologist & Author of "Standing in the Gap"; Authority on the Intersectionality of Race, Gender & Class

Human Rights Activist, BET News Correspondent & Author; Presidential Professor of Anthropology at CUNY Graduate Center

Civil Rights Activist, Co-Founder of MPOWER Change, Women’s March Leader

Social Justice Advocate, Community Organizer & TED Speaker; Former Chief Equity & Inclusion Officer at the ACLU

Political Activist & Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party; Author of "A Lonely Range" & "Seize the Time"

Award-Winning Journalist and Editor-in-Chief Shaping Inclusive Leadership; Editor-in-Chief at Design Observer

Author & Civil Rights Historian; Founder of The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research & Education Institute

Civil Rights Icon, Environmental Advocate & Diversity Educator; Subject of "Journey to Little Rock: The Untold Story of Minnijean Brown Trickey"

Anti-Bias, Social Justice Educator; Education Consultant & Curriculum Creator; Author of "This Book is Anti-Racist"