KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Award-Winning Journalist, TV Host, Former Editor-in-Chief of Teen Vogue & Maternal Health Advocate

Feminist Author, Social Justice Advocate, Film & TV Producer

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

Performance Lecturer, Justice Strategist, Facilitator, Vocalist & Founder of RAPtivism

Best-Selling Young-Adult Novelist Known for "The Hate U Give"

NYT Bestselling Author of "Hood Feminism", Diversity Consultant & Writer

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

Poet, Bestselling Author & Social Equity Advocate

Writer, Lecturer, Feminist, Gender Equality Activist & Founder of Award-Winning Blog MsAfropolitan

Author of "Heads of the Colored People"

Journalist & Bestselling Author

Acclaimed Journalist Known for Being Detained in North Korea; Host of "E! Investigates;" Co-Author of "Somewhere Inside"

First African American Female Principal Dancer with the American Ballet Theatre; Author

Founder and Editor of Online Women's Magazine, Jezebel. Editor, writer (Glamour, NY Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, New Yorker.com, many others.)

Spoken Word Poet, Performing Artist & LGBTQ+ Rights Political Activist

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

Entrepreneur, CEO of Salamander Hotels and Resorts, President of WNBA's Washington Mystics & Co-Founder of BET

Bestselling Author of "I Can't Date Jesus"

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet, Former Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress & Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing

Award-Winning Keynote Speaker, Bestselling Author, Policy Advisor & #1 Global Voice For Working Moms