KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Journalist & Bestselling Author

Award-winning Author of "From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl In Revolutionary Iran"; Op-Ed Columnist; Farsi/English Translator for the National Immigrant Justice Center

Saudi Women's Rights Advocate & Author of "Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening"

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

Iranian Visual Artist; Focuses on Social, Cultural & Religious Codes of Muslim Societies

Award-Winning Author, Known for "The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore"

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

Civil Rights Activist, Co-Founder of MPOWER Change, Women’s March Leader

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

Long-Distance Hiker & Author; Overall Record Holder on the Appalachian Trail & The First Woman to Set That Mark

Professor; Science Historian; Philosopher; Author of "The Philosophical Breakfast Club"

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

Journalist; Editor and Writer at TIME MAGAZINE. Author of 8 books, including APOLLO 13.

Senior Critic-at-Large at The Washington Post; Pulitzer Prize Winner

Award-Winning Author of "Halsey Street" & "What’s Mine and Yours"

Syrian-American Muslim Storytelling Activist & Poet

International Keynote Speaker, Global Leadership Consultant, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Influencer

Author, Activist & Entrepreneur; Founder of Muslimgirl.com; Known for "MuslimGirl: A Coming of Age"

Bestselling & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist & Short Story Writer

Author of the #1 NY Times Best-Selling "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" Series