KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Motivational Speaker; Author of "Lizzie Beautiful" & "Be Beautiful, Be You;" Once Labeled "The World's Ugliest Woman"

Former Treasurer of the United States, Partner at The Cabral Group & Jesse Ball duPont Fund Trustee

President & CEO of the Opportunity Institute, Former U.S. Presidential Advisor to Bill Clinton, Co-Founder of Nueva Vista Group

Education Advocate, Author & Strategist; Speaker on Innovation, Teaching, Learning, and Education Policy

Educational Equity Proponent & Dean of the USC Rossier School of Education

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

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author & Journalist; Author of "Enrique’s Journey"

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

Co-Founder of the United Farm Workers of America; First Latina Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame; Two-Time U.S. Presidential Award Recipient

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

Feminist, Social Activist, Professor & Writer

Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, Director of Center for Africana Studies, Host of PBS's "History Detectives"

Sociologist, Best-Selling Author, Comedian

Founder & Executive Director of L.O.V.E. Mentoring; Social Entrepreneur; Changemaker

Social Psychologist, Stereotype Threat Researcher, Author

Philosopher, Professor, Political Activist & Author of "Race Matters"; 2024 People's Party Presidential Candidate

Community Organizer, Journalist, Political Activist, President & Founder of Know Thy Self Productions

Author of "Leveraging Intersectionality: Seeing and Not Seeing"; Special Advisor on Inclusive Innovation and Professor, Mathematics and Computer Science at Rutgers University

Transgender Activist, Actor & TED Resident

Scholar, Artist, Poet, Activist & Public Intellectual