KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Actress, Writer, Director & Producer Known for HBO's "Insecure" & "Awkward Black Girl"

Academy Award-Winning Director, Film Producer, Author

Academy Awarding-Winning Writer, Director & Producer Known for "Moonlight"

Academy Award Nominee, Director of "Selma", Founder of ARRAY

Activist, Multimedia Artist, Musician & Filmmaker; Director of "Whose Streets?"

Tony Award-Winning Actor, Arts Advocate, Broadway Star

Screenwriter, ABC's "Black-ish", Producers Guild Visionary Award Winner, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing

Emmy-winning Writer, Producer, Advocate for Queer & BIPOC Voices

Writer, Director & Filmmaker; First Black Woman to Direct a Marvel Film

Actress, Immigration Reform Advocate, White House Ambassador

Cultural Critic, Award-Winning Filmmaker & Executive Producer of "Surviving R.Kelly"

Grammy & Tony Award-Winning Actress; Known for "The Color Purple," "Wicked" & "Harriet"; Vice President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts

Filmmaker, Producer, Actor & Academy Award-Winning Screenwriter; Known for "Get Out" & "Us"

Singer-Songwriter, Rapper, Actress & LGBTQ Advocate

"Shark Tank" Investor; Founder & CEO of FUBU; Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship

Writer, Director, Actor & Producer Best Known for HBO’s “Girls”

Critically Acclaimed Haitian Filmmaker Known for "I Am Not Your Negro" & "Lumumba"

Rapper, Actor, Producer, Director & Writer Known for "21 Jumpstreet" and "Straight Outta Compton"

Playwright, Writer & Director; Best Known for Amazon's "Transparent"

Actor, Director, Independent Filmmaker, NAACP Award Nominee