KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Poet, Educator, Publisher, Emmy Award Winning Producer & New York Times Bestselling Author Known for "The Crossover"

Award-Winning Poet, Essayist, & Memoirist; Known for "The Liars' Club"; Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University

Award-Winning Author of "The Hunger Games" Trilogy

Novelist, Poet, Critic & Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College

Bestselling Author, Former Cosmopolitan Editor-in-Chief, Suspense Novelist

English Comedy Magician, Card Shark Actor and Con Man

Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award-Winning Author; Best Known for "The Color Purple"

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

Best-Selling Author Known for "Call Me by Your Name"; Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature

Social Entrepreneur, Change Agent & Author of "Purposeful Hustle"; Advocate of Inclusion and Belonging in the Workplace

Spoken Word Educator, High School English Teacher & Author

Award-Winning Author of "You Should See Me in a Crown"

Public Historian, Equity Advocate & Award-Winning Author Known for "Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells"

International Award-Winning Fantasy & Science Fiction Author

Co-Founder of Very Smart Brothas & Author of "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker"

Author & Illustrator Known For "Lost in Translation"

Award-winning Poet and Author

Award-Winning Poet & Multimedia Artist

Transgender Poet Known for "feeld"

Retired U.S. Navy SEAL, Bestselling Author & Leadership Expert