KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Stand-up Comedian, Actor, Director, and Writer

Director, Producer & Screenwriter; Known for "The Wood" and "Brown Sugar"

Tony Award-Winning Film and Theater Director Known for "Hamilton" and "In the Heights"

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

Filmmaker, Actor, LGBTQ Activist

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

Former Artistic Director of The Public Theater; Two-Time Tony Award-Winning Director; Director of "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" and "Rustin"

Actress, Author, and Philanthropist

Academy Award-nominated British Actor; Known for Critically Acclaimed Films "The Talented Mr. Ripley" & "Sherlock Holmes"

Award- Winning Screenwriter, Film Director, Actress & Comedienne

Writer, Director and Producer; Known for "Django Unchained" & "House Party"; One Half of Hudlin Brothers Production Company

Director, Producer & TED Speaker; Known for 1 Second Everyday

Emmy Award-Winning Writer, "Boardwalk Empire," "The Sopranos"

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

Academy Award-Winning Director, Actress & Writer Known for "Promising Young Woman," "Saltburn" & "The Danish Girl"

Actor, Writer & Producer; known for playing D.J. Conner on "Roseanne"

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

Emmy Award-Nominated Actress; Known for "Atlanta"

Academy Award-Nominated Screenwriter, Director & Actor