KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Newbery Medal-Winning Author of "Number the Stars" & "The Giver"

Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, "The Virgin Suicides," "Middlesex," and "The Marriage Plot"

New York Times Best-Selling Author of "Red, White & Royal Blue"

NYT Bestselling Author Known for "Esperanza Rising" & "Becoming Naomi León"

Children's Books Author & Illustrator Known for "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"

Media Executive, Startup Investor, Women's Empowerment Speaker & Best-Selling Author of "The Myth of the Nice Girl"

Journalist & Best-Selling Author

Bestselling Author, Former Cosmopolitan Editor-in-Chief, Suspense Novelist

Director Emerita at McKinsey, Women's Leadership Advocate, Author

Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award-Winning Author; Best Known for "The Color Purple"

New York Times Best-Selling Author, Podcast Host & Speaker

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

Leadership and Communication Expert & President of Peggy Klaus, Inc.

Award Winning Author, Historian & Feminist

International Award-Winning Fantasy & Science Fiction Author

Author, Award-Winning Foreign & War Correspondent; Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School & Executive Director The Reckoning Project

NYT Best-Selling Author, Angel Investor, CEO of Renegade Global & Host of the "Why Not Now?" Podcast

Award-Winning Journalist, Author of "Alpha Girls", Founder of Alphy™

New York Times Best-Selling Author, Spiritual Life Coach & Host of "Iyanla Fix My Life"

Founder and Editor of Online Women's Magazine, Jezebel. Editor, writer (Glamour, NY Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, New Yorker.com, many others.)