KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Mixed-Media Painter & Installation Artist

Economist, Author & Political Commentator; President Emerita of Bennett College for Women

Veteran Video Game Artist; Advocate for STEAM Education & Diversity in the Gaming Industry

Chief Equity & Inclusion Officer, ACLU

Visual Artist Specializing in Portrait Painting; Painted Barack Obama's Official Portrait

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

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

Tony Award-Winning Actor, Arts Advocate, Broadway Star

Feminist, Social Activist, Professor & Writer

Actress, Producer, Director, Writer & American Ballet Theatre Alum

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

Founder & CEO at Black Women Animate

Futurist & Thought Leader Using Immersive AI for Participants to Experience Societal Implications of AI and AI Bias; Award-Winning XR Creator; Winner of SXSW XR Competition 2023

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

Scholar & Social Justice Advocate; Founding Director of the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society

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

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

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

Civil Rights Icon, Environmental Advocate & Diversity Educator; Subject of "Journey to Little Rock: The Untold Story of Minnijean Brown Trickey"

Contemporary Artist