KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

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

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

Social Justice Leader & Movement Strategist

HR + Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Advisor, Educator, Coach; CEO & Founder of Advancing Equity & Inclusion

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

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

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

Civil Rights Leader, Minister, Attorney, Author & Daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

President & CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights; Former Senior Vice President for Social Justice at The New School

Feminist, Social Activist, Professor & Writer

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

Writer, Filmmaker & Black Studies Scholar; Founder of BYP100

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

Chief Diversity Officer at Workday; Consultant and Advisor at RISEQUITY

Former WNBA Player, Co-Owner & Vice President of the Atlanta Dream; Non-Profit Founder & Black Lives Matter Activist

First Female & African-American News Anchor in Atlanta

Influential Voice at the Intersection of Politics, Public Policy & Civil Rights; Former Campaign Chairwoman for Kamala Harris's 2020 Presidential Bid

Political Activist & Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party

Professor of African American Studies, Author, Cultural Analyst