KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

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

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

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

Former Editor-In-Chief of Cosmopolitan Magazine; New York Times Best-Selling Author

Iranian Author Best Known for "Children of the Jacaranda Tree"

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

World-Famous Animal Scientist, Autism Self-Advocate & Author of "Thinking in Pictures: My Life With Autism"

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

Social Entrepreneur, Change Agent & Author of "Purposeful Hustle"; Advocate of Inclusion and Belonging in the Workplace

National Book Award Longlisted Poet

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

Artist, Poet & Author

Author Known for "Landline," "Attachments," "Fangirl," "Eleanor & Park" & "Carry On"

Author & Creative Writing Professor; Best Known for "Tampa" & "Made for Love"

Long-Distance Hiker & Author; Overall Record Holder on the Appalachian Trail & The First Woman to Set That Mark

Journalist & Best-Selling Author

Founder and Editor of Online Women's Magazine, Jezebel. Editor, writer (Glamour, NY Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, New Yorker.com, many others.)

Cheyenne-Holdulgee Muscogee Activist, Poet, Writer, Lecturer & Curator

New York Times Best-Selling Author, Spiritual Life Coach & Host of "Iyanla Fix My Life"