KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

Stand-Up Comic, Actor & Writer Known for "Take Me As Your Wife" & the "Queery" Podcast

Academy Award-Winning Actress, Producer & New York Times Best-Selling Author

Playwright, Journalist & Actress

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

Kelly Oxford is a Canadian author, screenwriter, social media blogger and microblogger, and stay-at-home mom.

Stand-up Comedian, Actor, Director, and Writer

Actress, Best Known for "Black Panther" & "The Walking Dead"

Journalist & Best-Selling Author

Actress, Director & Producer

Co-creator & Former Head Writer of "The Daily Show"

Emmy Award-Nominated Actress; Known for "Atlanta"

Full Time Artist at Chinaka Hodge, Inc; Poet, Filmmaker, Playwright

Oscar Winning Writer, ’12 Years a Slave,’ ‘American Crime’

Multi-Talented Artist, Choreographer, Dancer, Artistic Director, Writer & Recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2010

Actress, Known for a Variety of Roles in Indie Films & TV Series

Actress, Choreographer, Activist & Former Co-Host of "The View"

Actress Known for "The Chronicles of Narnia," "We Need to Talk About Kevin" & "The Grand Budapest Hotel"

"Shark Tank" Investor; Founder & CEO of FUBU; Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship

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