KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Award-Winning Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author; Civil Rights Activist; Cancer Survivor; Subject of the Emmy Award-Winning Documentary "Going to Mars"

Writer & Social Activist Known for Her Work on Issues of Race & Identity; Author of "So You Want to Talk About Race"

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

Author, Attorney, Political Commentator, Health & Education Advocate; Youngest African American Elected Official in the U.S.

Writer, Filmmaker & Black Studies Scholar; Founder of BYP100

Best-Selling Author of the "Goosebumps" Series; Emmy-Award Winning TV Show & Film Producer

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

Literacy Advocate, Author & Actor Known for "Roots," "Star Trek" & "Reading Rainbow"

Culinary Historian & Author of "KosherSoul" and "Rice: A Savor the South Cookbook"

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

Award-Winning Actor, Bestselling Author, Entrepreneur

World-Famous Animal Scientist, Autism Self-Advocate & Author of "Thinking in Pictures: My Life With Autism"

Scholar, Author, Professor, Civil Rights Historian & Director of The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute

Children's Book Author; Creator of "Arthur"; Advote for Children's Literacy

Restorative Justice Advocate, Civil Rights Attorney, Educator

Award-Winning Children's Author & Illustrator Known for "Thank You, Mr. Falker"; Dyslexia & Learning Disabilities Advocate

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

Olympic Legend & American Record-Holder in the Long Jump; Philanthropist & Founder of the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation

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

President & CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights; Former Senior Vice President for Social Justice at The New School