KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Academy Award-Winning Screenwriter, Director, Producer & Actress; Known for Directing "The Virgin Suicides," "The Bling Ring" & "Priscilla"

Academy & Golden Globe Award-Winning Actress & Film Producer; Gender & Racial Equality Advocate

Actress, Immigration Reform Advocate, White House Ambassador

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

Academy Award-Winning Actress, Producer & New York Times Best-Selling Author

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

Filmmaker & Director of "Birds Of Prey;" First Asian Woman to Direct a U.S. Superhero Film

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

Award-Winning Executive Producer, Screenwriter & Author; CEO of Shondaland

Director & Writer Known for "Daughters of the Dust"; First Black Woman to Direct A Full-Length General Theatrical Release Film in the U.S.

Golden Globe-winning Actress, Producer, Director, Humanitarian

Actress, Comedian & Producer Known for NBC's "Parks and Recreation," "Agatha All Along" & "My Old Ass"

Award-Winning Actress, Dancer, Singer; Health Advocate & New York Times Bestselling Author

Academy Award-Winning Costume Designer; Best Known for Her Work on "Selma" & Marvel's "Black Panther"

Academy Award-winning Production Designer, Art Directors Guild Award Winner, Afrofuturist Cultural Curator

Film Director & Screenwriter Known for Directing "Wonder Woman"

Screenwriter, Known for "Bumblebee" & "Birds of Prey"

Award-Winning Actress; Speaker Against Genocide and Crimes Against Women

DIrector & Writer; Best Known for "Obvious Child"

Director & Storyboard Artist; Best Known for "Kung Fu Panda 2"