Xernona Clayton

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

Sophie Santos

2022 Lambda Literary Award Winner, Comedian, Writer, Actor & Author of The Best-Selling Memoir "The One You Want to Marry (And Other Identities I've Had)"

Sophie Santos' New Love

André Aciman

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

Katrina Ayres

Author, Classroom Management Specialist, Teacher Trainer

Nicole Chung

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

Robin Ess

Spoken Word Artist, Visual & Performing Artist, Community Activist & Columnist

Adrienne Brodeur

Award-Winning Editor & Author; Executive Director of Aspen Words; Best Known for her Memoir "Wild Game"

Wild Game: My Mother, Her Secret, and Me

Susan Devan Harness

Indigenous Award-Winning Author of "Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption"

Marge Piercy

Award-winning Novelist, Poet & Social Activist

Mandy Lemond

Emmy Award Winning Producer, Domestic Violence Survivor, Foster Kid turned Foster-Adoptive Mom, Author of "The Fostered One"

Brooke Siem

Food Network “Chopped” Champion & Author of "May Cause Side Effects"

Debra Newell

Author & Survivor of "Dirty John" Meehan; Subject of Bravo's "Dirty John" Series

Greg O'Brien

Award-Winning Journalist & Author of "On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer's"

Adiba Nelson

Inspirational Speaker & Author of "Ain't That a Mother: Postpartum, Palsy, and Everything in Between"

Courtney Burnett

Hospital Medicine Physician, Award-Winning Author, Brain Cancer Survivor, Brain Cancer Awareness Advocate, Patient Advocate & Invisible Illness Advocate

Lauri Fitz-Pegado

Expert in Cultural & Commercial Diplomacy; Author of "Dancing in the Dash"

Sasha LaPointe

Poet, Artist & Author of ""Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk"

Margo Jefferson

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cultural Critic & Memoirist Known for "Negroland"

Ashley Bisman

Author of "Chasing Butterflies"

Damien Echols

Part of the "West Memphis Three" & Author of NY Times Bestselling Memoir, "Life After Death"