KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Peabody Award-Winning Radio Host, Spoken Word Artist, Playwright

Award-Winning Playwright, Author, Producer & Lifestyle Coach

Playwright, Novelist, Advocate for Women and African American Issues

Literary Advocate & Founder of Well-Read Black Girl

Dominican American Fiction Writer

IBM Futurist, Bestselling Author of the Goldfish Series, Customer Experience & Artificial Intelligence Thought Leader

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

Award-Winning Playwright & Screenwriter Best Known for "Moonlight"

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

Award-Winning Author of "Dreamland"; Known for Researching Opioid Epidemic; Journalist & Reporter; Expert on Gangs & Drugs in Mexico

Award-Winning Author of "The Hunger Games" Trilogy

Writer, Activist & Author

Renowned Poet Known For Inauguration Poem "Praise Song for the Day"

Bestselling Author, Former Cosmopolitan Editor-in-Chief, Suspense Novelist

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright, Filmmaker & Author

Attorney & 13-Time Bestselling Author; Known for Legal Thrillers Such as "Presumed Innocent" & "The Burden of Proof"

Award-Winning Journalist & Television Producer; Breast Cancer Survivor

Diversity & Inclusion Consultant, Award-Winning Producer, Poet

Chairman of Kurzweil Technologies, Inventor & Futurist; Author of "How to Create a Mind"

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet, Former Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress & Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing