KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

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

One of the Central Park 5, Entrepreneur, Author, Trainer & Leader

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

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

Professor of African American Studies, Author, Cultural Analyst

Political Activist & Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party

Social Justice Leader & Movement Strategist

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

Writer, Filmmaker & Black Studies Scholar; Founder of BYP100

Feminist, Social Activist, Professor & Writer

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

Veteran Civil Rights Attorney; Represented Rosa Parks & Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Award-Winning Journalist & Media Personality, Author of "Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith"

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

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter & Author of "They Can't Kill Us All"

Philosopher, Professor, Political Activist & Author of "Race Matters"; 2024 People's Party Presidential Candidate

Assistant Professor at Princeton University, Writer & Activist

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

Award-Winning Actor, Bestselling Author, Entrepreneur