KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

Academy Award-Winning Director, Film Producer, Author

Tony Award-winning Actor, Arts Advocate, Broadway Star

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

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

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

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

Actress, Immigration Reform Advocate, White House Ambassador

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

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

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

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

Actor, Director, Independent Filmmaker, NAACP Award Nominee

Singer-Songwriter, Rapper, Actress & LGBTQ Advocate

Director, Producer & Screenwriter; Known for "The Wood" and "Brown Sugar"

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

Actress, Author, Advocate

Actress Known for "Scary Movie," "The Best Man" & "Ally McBeal"; First African American to Win a New York Film Critics Circle Award

Director, Film Produce & Actor; Best Known for Directing "Straight Outta Compton," "The Italian Job" & "The Fate of The Furious"