KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Peabody Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker; Known For TED Talk on the Intersection of Civil Rights & LGBT Rights

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

Political Activist & Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party

Feminist, Social Activist, Professor & Writer

Professor of Law, Critical Race Theory Scholar & Advocate; Executive Director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University

Author & Civil Rights Historian; Founder of The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research & Education Institute

Award-Winning Hip-Hop Artist, Actor, Producer & Social Justice Activist

President & CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights; Digital Equity & Inclusion Speaker

Civil Rights Leader, Minister, Attorney, Author & Daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Presidential Professor at CUNY Graduate Center, BET News Correspondent, Human Rights Activist & Author

Educator, Writer, Activist & First Woman of Color Elected President of the League of Women Voters

Literacy Advocate, Author & Actor Known for "Roots," "Star Trek" & "Reading Rainbow"

Renowned Scholar, Poet, Playwright, Bestselling Author & Activist

Author of "America Made Me A Black Man," Winner of the NPR Best Book of 2022

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

Culinary Historian & Author of "KosherSoul" and "Rice: A Savor the South Cookbook"

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

Scholar & Social Justice Advocate; Founding Director of the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society

Award-Winning Journalist, TV Host, Former Editor-in-Chief of Teen Vogue & Maternal Health Advocate

Writer, Filmmaker; Black Studies Scholar & Founder of BYP100