KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Newbery Medal-Winning Author of "Number the Stars" & "The Giver"

Best-Selling Author of the "Goosebumps" Series; Emmy-Award Winning TV Show & Film Producer

Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, "The Virgin Suicides," "Middlesex," and "The Marriage Plot"

Award-Winning Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author; Civil Rights Activist; Cancer Survivor; Subject of the Emmy Award-Winning Documentary "Going to Mars"

Nature Writer & Photographer; Bestselling Author of "A Wolf Called Romeo"

NYT Bestselling Author Known for "Esperanza Rising" & "Becoming Naomi León"

Bestselling Author, Former Cosmopolitan Editor-in-Chief, Suspense Novelist

Vietnam War Veteran & Author of "Matterhorn" and "What it is Like to Go to War"

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

Journalist Specialized in Education Technology News and Analysis

New York Times Best-Selling Author, Podcast Host & Speaker

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

New York Times Best-Selling Author of "Red, White & Royal Blue"

Poet, Educator, Publisher, Emmy Award Winning Producer & New York Times Bestselling Author Known for "The Crossover"

4x TED Speaker, Co-Founder of Cuddlr, Entrepreneurial Coach, Author of "Career Remix: Get the Gig You Want with the Skills You've Got"

Visual Op-Ed Columnist for The New York Times; CNN Contributor & NY Times Best-Selling Author of "Fire Shut Up in My Bones"

Children's Books Author & Illustrator Known for "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"

Author, Award-Winning Foreign & War Correspondent; Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School & Executive Director The Reckoning Project

#1 New York Times & Internationally Best-Selling Author

Legendary Pulitzer Prize-Winning Investigative Journalist; Associate Editor, The Washington Post & Author of 23 Bestsellers