KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

#1 New York Times Best-Selling Author, Digital Creator, VidCon Co-Founder & Entrepreneur

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

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

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

Bestselling Author, Film Adaptations Creator, Philanthropist

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

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

Feminist, Social Activist, Professor & Writer

New York Times Bestselling Author, Best Known for the "Jack Reacher" Series

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

NY Times Best-Selling Author & Reading Champion

Anti-Racist Essayist, Author & Educator; Expert on White Privilege & Advocate for Belonging

Comedian, Television Host, New York Times Best-Selling author & Advocate

Original MTV VJ, SiriusXM Host. Co-Author of New York Times Best-Seller VJ:The Unplugged Adventures Of MTV's First Wave

Writer & Activist Wrongfully Convicted of Murder in Perugia, Italy; Inspiration Behind the Netflix Documentary "Amanda Knox" & Host of "The Scarlet Letter Reports"

International Award-Winning Fantasy & Science Fiction Author

New York Times Bestselling True Crime Author, TV commentator

NYT Bestselling Author Known for "Esperanza Rising" & "Becoming Naomi León"

Children's Books Author & Illustrator Known for "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"