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Filmmaker, Actor, LGBTQ Activist

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Jenny Han

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

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Co-Founder of the Born This Way Foundation with Daughter Lady Gaga; WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Mental Health

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Charles Graeber

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Kim Stanley Robinson

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Sandra Cisneros

Poet, Short Story Writer, Novelist & Essayist Known for "The House on Mango Street"

Christopher Paul Wolfe

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May Cobb

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Everina Maxwell

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Ashley Ford

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Emily Henry

Author of “Happy Place;” Known as The Queen of Romance

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Patrick Ness

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Mary Ellen Hannibal

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Maha Bali

Associate Professor of Practice, Center for Learning & Teaching at the American University in Cairo

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