KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Co-Founder of Wong Fu Productions & Author of "Rise: A Pop History of Asian American from the Nineties to Now"

Academy Award Winning Filmmaker & Author; Best Known for "Pinocchio," "The Shape of Water," Pan's Labyrinth," and "Hellboy"

Academy Award-Winning Actor; Known for "Everything, Everywhere, All At Once" & "Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom"

Award-Winning New Zealand Film Director, Writer & Actor; Known for "Thor: Ragnarok" & "Jojo Rabbit"

Tony Nominated Actress & Singer Known for "Hamilton"

Acclaimed Filmmaker, Emmy Award Winner, MacArthur Fellow

Co-Founder of The Very Asian Foundation; Peabody Award-Winning Journalist

Comedian, Writer, Actor; 2022 Lambda Literary Award Winner & Author of The Best-Selling Memoir "The One You Want to Marry (And Other Identities I've Had)"

Professor of History at Harvard University & Past President of the Organization of American Historians; Award-Winning Author of "America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States"

Co-Director of Chinese for Affirmative Action

Singer, Songwriter, Record Producer, Music Video Director & Fashion Designer

Academy Award Winner, Influential Actor, Diverse Role Performer

Lead Singer of Japanese Breakfast; New York Times Bestselling Author of "Crying in H Mart"

South Korean Director & Screenwriter Known for "Parasite" and "Okja"

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

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

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

Actor; Best Known for "Moonlight" and "The Retrieval"

Academy Award-Winning Actress; Known for "The Crown", "The Night Manager" & "The Favourite"

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