KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Academy Award-Winning Director, Film Producer, Author

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

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

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

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

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

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

Academy Award-Winning Mexican Film Director, Screenwriter, Producer & Editor

Actor, Writer, Producer, Director & CEO, Tyler Perry Studios; Philanthropist & Founder, Perry Foundation

Actor Known for Marvel's "Black Panther" and "Us"

Academy Award-Winning Actress & Director

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

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

Award-Winning Actress & Director; Best Known for "Barbie," "Lady Bird" and "Little Women"

Emmy Award-Nominated Actress; Known for "Atlanta"

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

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

Acclaimed Filmmaker, Emmy Award Winner, MacArthur Fellow

Singer-Songwriter, Rapper, Actress & LGBTQ Advocate

Actor, Director & Producer Known for "Devil in a Blue Dress"