KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

Senior Editor at Fortune Magazine & "RaceAhead" Columnist

Social Justice Leader & Movement Strategist

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

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

Civil Rights Leader, Broadcast Executive, Founder, President & CEO of the Trumpet Awards Foundation

First Female & African-American News Anchor in Atlanta

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

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

Professor of African American Studies, Author, Cultural Analyst

Founder & CEO of Youth Equity Platform Chicago Beyond; Star of CNN's Documentary Series "Chicagoland"

Former WNBA Player, Co-Owner & Vice President of the Atlanta Dream; Non-Profit Founder & Black Lives Matter Activist

Coach, Author, Educator & Inspiration for the Film "Coach Carter"

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

World Record Breaking Gold Medal Olympian & Civil Rights Icon Famous for Black Power Salute at the Olympics

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

CNN & ESPN Columnist; Celebrated Voice on Sports, Race & Gay Rights

Writer, Filmmaker & Black Studies Scholar; Founder of BYP100

Political Activist & Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party

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