KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Actress, Writer, Director & Producer Known for HBO's "Insecure" & "Awkward Black Girl"

Academy Award Nominee, Director of "Selma", Founder of ARRAY

Academy Award-Winning Director, Film Producer, Author

Singer-Songwriter, Rapper, Actress & LGBTQ Advocate

Academy Awarding-Winning Writer, Director & Producer Known for "Moonlight"

Cultural Critic, Award-Winning Filmmaker & Executive Producer of "Surviving R.Kelly"

Director, Film Produce & Actor; Best Known for Directing "Straight Outta Compton," "The Italian Job" & "The Fate of The Furious"

Director, Producer & Screenwriter; Known for "The Wood" and "Brown Sugar"

Grammy & Tony Award-Winning Actress; Known for "The Color Purple," "Wicked" & "Harriet"; Vice President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts

Actor, Writer, Producer, Director & CEO, Tyler Perry Studios; Philanthropist & Founder, Perry Foundation

Author, Feminist, Transgender Rights Activist, TV Host & Founder of #GirlsLikeUs

Emmy-winning Writer, Producer, Advocate for Queer & BIPOC Voices

Award-Winning Actor, Producer & Director; Best Known for "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" & "The Last King of Scotland"; Founder of the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative

Director, Writer & Producer Known for "Precious," "Empire," "The United States vs. Billie Holiday" & "The Deliverance"; Founder, Lee Daniels Entertainment

Writer, Director & Filmmaker; First Black Woman to Direct a Marvel Film

Award-Winning Executive Producer, Screenwriter & Author; CEO of Shondaland

Academy Award-Winning Actress, Producer & New York Times Best-Selling Author

Filmmaker, Producer, Actor & Academy Award-Winning Screenwriter; Known for "Get Out" & "Us"

Actor, Director & Producer Known for "Devil in a Blue Dress"

Director & Writer Known for "Daughters of the Dust"; First Black Woman to Direct A Full-Length General Theatrical Release Film in the U.S.