KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Native Author, Speaker, Storyteller

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

Award Winning Author, Historian & Feminist

Anti-Racist Essayist, Author & Educator; Expert on White Privilege & Advocate for Belonging

Writer, Scholar & Distinguished Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico

Indigenous Speaker, Consultant, Educator & Author

Co-Founder of Very Smart Brothas & Author of "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker"

Award-Winning Indigenous Actress & Activist

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

Immigration Reform Activist & Actress Known for "Orange is the New Black" & "Jane The Virgin"

Author of "The First Muslim," a New Look at the Life of Muhammad

Award-Winning Author & Historian of Racial and Sexual Violence

Author of "Heads of the Colored People"

Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award-Winning Author; Best Known for "The Color Purple"

Feminist, Social Activist, Professor & Writer

Author & Managing Director of The Antiracist Research & Policy Center at American University

Historian, Journalist, and Author of The Secret Game

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

International Award-Winning Fantasy & Science Fiction Author

Culinary Historian & Author of "Rice: a Savor the South cookbook" (Savor the South Cookbooks)