KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

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

Writer, Researcher, Social Entrepreneur, Author of "The Diversity Gap: Where Good Intentions Meet True Cultural Change" & Host of "The Diversity Gap" Podcast

Activist, Multimedia Artist, Musician & Filmmaker; Director of Whose Streets?

Motivational Speaker; Mental & Physical Health Advocate for Overcoming Adversity; Executive Director of Disabled But Not Really (DBNR); Featured on Queer Eye

Equity Advocate, TED Speaker & Author

Public Historian, Equity Advocate & Award-Winning Author Known for "Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells"

Diversity Marketer & Storyteller

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

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

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

Journalist, Musician & Author of "Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free"

Senior Editor at Fortune Magazine & "RaceAhead" Columnist

Civil Rights Activist & Member of the "Little Rock Nine"

Award-Winning Black & Indigenous Historian; Associate Professor at University of Pittsburgh; Author of "I’ve Been Here All the While"

First Openly Gay Player In Major League Sports; Retired NBA Player; Equality Advocate

Literary Advocate & Founder of Well-Read Black Girl

Anti-Racist Educator, Author of "This Book is Anti-Racist"

First Female & African-American News Anchor in Atlanta

Content Producer, Activist, Creator of "Because of Them, We Can" Campaign