KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

Acclaimed Journalist Known for Being Detained in North Korea; Host of "E! Investigates;" Co-Author of "Somewhere Inside"

Author, Activist, One of the Nation's Leading Experts on Fat Discrimination & Body Image

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Known for "In The Heights;" Author Known for "My Broken Language"

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

Author of "All You Can Ever Know;" Contributing Writer for The Atlantic; Asian-American Activist

Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker; Bestselling Author of Historical & Transcultural Novels and Memoirs

Contemporary Crime & Supernatural Fiction Author , Known for "The Ridge" & "An Honest Man"

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

Award-Winning Journalist, Author & Activist for Asian American and LGBTQ Rights

Co-Founder of Watcher Entertainment & Former BuzzFeed's "Worth It" Host

Author of "Heads of the Colored People"

Award-Winning Director, Writer, Producer & Documentary Filmmaker on Culture, History, Politics, Sports, Art, Architecture, Literature, and Music

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

Award-Winning Author of "The Four Winds," "The Nightingale" & "Firefly Lane"

Artist, Theologian, Psychotherapist & Human Rights Activist

Anti-Racist Educator, Author of "This Book is Anti-Racist"

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

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

Native Author, Speaker, Storyteller