KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Award-Winning Author, Known for "The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore"

Poet, Educator, Publisher, Emmy Award Winning Producer & New York Times Bestselling Author Known for "The Crossover"

Co-Founder & COO of Blavity

Author & Managing Director of The Antiracist Research & Policy Center at American University

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

Poet, Bestselling Author & Social Equity Advocate

Award-Winning Poet' Displacement & Belonging Advocate; Author of "Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth"

Spoken Word Poet, Performing Artist & LGBTQ+ Rights Political Activist

Fashion Editor for The Washington Post; Pulitzer Prize Winner

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Writing About Culture, War, and Identity; Professor & Distinguished Senior Poet at New York University

Co-Founder of Very Smart Brothas & Author of "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker"

Poet Laureate of Philadelphia

Award-Winning Poet & Multimedia Artist

Transgender Poet Known for "feeld"

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet

Author of "Heads of the Colored People"

NYT Bestselling Author, Restorative Writing & Wellness Coach

Award-Winning Author of "Halsey Street" & "What’s Mine and Yours"

New York Times Best-Selling Author of "The Tourists" & "The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace"

Award-Winning Children's Book Author & Illustrator