KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

Feminist Author, Social Justice Advocate, Film & TV Producer

Performance Lecturer, Justice Strategist, Facilitator, Vocalist & Founder of RAPtivism

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

Best-Selling Young-Adult Novelist Known for "The Hate U Give"

NYT Bestselling Author of "Hood Feminism", Diversity Consultant & Writer

Writer & Social Activist Known for Her Work on Issues of Race & Identity; Author of "So You Want to Talk About Race"

Poet, Bestselling Author & Social Equity Advocate

Writer, Lecturer, Feminist, Gender Equality Activist & Founder of Award-Winning Blog MsAfropolitan

Author of "Heads of the Colored People"

Journalist & Bestselling Author

First African American Female Principal Dancer with the American Ballet Theatre; Author

Acclaimed Journalist Known for Being Detained in North Korea; Host of "E! Investigates;" Co-Author of "Somewhere Inside"

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

Spoken Word Poet, Performing Artist & LGBTQ+ Rights Political Activist

Veteran Political Strategist, Best-Selling Author & Former Interim Chair of the DNC; Professor in Women and Gender Studies at Georgetown

Entrepreneur, CEO of Salamander Hotels and Resorts, President of WNBA's Washington Mystics & Co-Founder of BET

Bestselling Author of "I Can't Date Jesus"

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

Civil Rights Advocate & Leading Scholar in Critical Race Theory; Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia University