KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

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

Social Justice Leader & Movement Strategist

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

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

Civil Rights Icon, Environmental Advocate, Diversity Educator

Civil Rights Leader, Broadcast Executive, Founder, President & CEO of the Trumpet Awards Foundation

Veteran Political Strategist, Best-Selling Author & Former Interim Chair of the Democratic National Committee; Professor in Women and Gender Studies at Georgetown

Scholar & Social Justice Advocate; Founding Director of the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society

Senior Editor at Fortune Magazine & "RaceAhead" Columnist

Former WNBA Player, Co-Owner & Vice President of the Atlanta Dream; Non-Profit Founder & Black Lives Matter Activist

Feminist, Social Activist, Professor & Writer

Presidential Professor at CUNY Graduate Center, BET News Correspondent, Human Rights Activist & Author

Civil Rights Leader, Minister, Attorney, Author & Daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Economist, Author & Political Commentator; President Emerita of Bennett College for Women

Attorney & Activist Dubbed "The People's Lawyer;" Founder of Merritt Law Firm

Writer, Filmmaker & Black Studies Scholar; Founder of BYP100

Professor of African American Studies, Author, Cultural Analyst

Restorative Justice Advocate, Civil Rights Attorney, Educator