KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Journalist & Best-Selling Author

Long-Distance Hiker & Author; Overall Record Holder on the Appalachian Trail & The First Woman to Set That Mark

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

Award-Winning Author, Known for "The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore"

Journalist; Editor and Writer at TIME MAGAZINE. Author of 8 books, including APOLLO 13.

Contributing Editor at Catapult & Author of "This Will Be My Undoing"

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

Award-Winning Author of "Halsey Street" & "What’s Mine and Yours"

Author & Creative Writing Professor; Best Known for "Tampa" & "Made for Love"

Author of the #1 NY Times Best-Selling "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" Series

Newbery Medal-Winning Author of "Number the Stars" & "The Giver"

Pioneer of the Flipped Class Movement & Bestselling Author of "Flip Your Classroom"; Member of the TED-Education Advisory Board

Bestselling & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist & Short Story Writer

Professor; Science Historian; Philosopher; Author of "The Philosophical Breakfast Club"

Nancy Kruse, President of The Kruse Company in Atlanta GA, is the best known and most widely quoted menu analyst in the restaurant industry.

Kelly Oxford is a Canadian author, screenwriter, social media blogger and microblogger, and stay-at-home mom.

New York Times Best-Selling Author, Podcast Host & Professional Troublemaker

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

Founder & Executive Director of the Freedom Writers Foundation; Education Reform Advocate

World-Famous Animal Scientist, Autism Self-Advocate & Author of "Thinking in Pictures: My Life With Autism"