KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

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

Peabody Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker; Known For TED Talk on the Intersection of Civil Rights & LGBT Rights

Political Activist & Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party; Author of "A Lonely Range" & "Seize the Time"

Scholar & Activist; Distinguished Professor Emerita at UC Santa Cruz; Author of "Are Prisons Obsolete?"; Founding Member of Critical Resistance

Legal Director at Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI); Ethiopian-American Attorney, Writer & Researcher on Migration; Legal Fellow & Director of Queer Black Immigration Project

Author on Gender, Race & Ethnicity; Professor Emeritus of Legal Studies & Sociology at Kenyon College

Social Historian, Educator, Writer & Activist; First Woman of Color Elected President of the League of Women Voters

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

Scholar & Social Justice Advocate; Founding Director of the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society; Award-Winning Author and Expert on the Interplay of Gender, Race, and Class

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

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

Civil Rights Historian & Scholar; Director of the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection; Editor of "Women in the Civil Rights Movement"

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

Leadership Strategist, Bestselling Author, Founder & CEO of Harden Consulting Group; Creator of the Calibrate Leadership Framework

President & CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation; Civil Rights, Social Justice & Women's Rights Trailblazer

Civil Rights Activist, Sociologist & Author of "Standing in the Gap"; Authority on the Intersectionality of Race, Gender & Class

Activist, Mental Health Advocate & Co-Founder & Head of Education at FEMINIST; Bestselling Author of "Read This to Get Smarter"

Author & Civil Rights Historian; Founder of The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research & Education Institute

Civic Leader, New York Times Bestselling Author & Former Senior Advisor to President Obama; CEO of the Barack Obama Foundation