KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

Founder & CEO of Youth Equity Platform Chicago Beyond; Star of CNN's Documentary Series "Chicagoland"

Author, Attorney, Political Commentator, Health & Education Advocate; Youngest African American Elected Official in the U.S.

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

CEO of S. Graham & Associates, Leadership Development Expert & Author

Founder & Executive Director of the Freedom Writers Foundation; Education Reform Advocate

Scholar, Author, Professor, Civil Rights Historian & Director of The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute

Emmy Award-Winning Talk Show Host; Multiple Sclerosis Survivor; Navy and Marine Corps Veteran; Health Equity & Veteran Advocate

Co-Founder & CEO of Stand for Children, Education Reformer, Policy Advocate

Award-Winning Actor, Bestselling Author, Entrepreneur

Sociologist, Best-Selling Author, Comedian

Triple Board Certified Physician; Child, Adolescent, Adult & Forensic Psychiatrist; Sought-After Clinician, Consultant & Speaker

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

Pollster, Author, Political Analyst

Ambassador of Inspiration

College Football National Champion, Philanthropist & Behavioral Health Consultant for UConn Basketball

Judge, TV Personality, Youth Advocate

Motivational Speaker; Mental & Physical Health Advocate for Overcoming Adversity; Executive Director of Disabled But Not Really (DBNR); Featured on Queer Eye

Founding President of the Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence & Research

Co-Founder of Project Eye-To-Eye & Learning Disabilities Advocate; Recipient of The Harry S. Truman Fellowship for Public Services