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; Author of "A Lonely Range" & "Seize the Time"

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.

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

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

Writer & Activist Amplifying Muslim American and Immigrant Narratives; Author of "America Made Me A Black Man,"

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

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

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

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

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

Writer, Filmmaker; Black Studies Scholar & Founder of BYP100