Trey Anthony

Award-Winning Playwright, Author, Producer & Lifestyle Coach

Spirit Tawfiq

Antiracism Educator & Founder of Roots of the Spirit

Kate Bornstein

Author, Playwright, Trans Trailblazer, Performance Artist & Gender Theorist

Al Letson

Peabody Award-Winning Radio Host, Spoken Word Artist, Playwright

Quiara Hudes

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

Maybe Burke

Actor, Writer & Human Rights Advocate

Taylor Mac

Theatre Artist, MacArthur Fellow & Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Drama

Taylor Mac Is Today's Yankee Doodle Dandy

Tim Federle

Award-Winning Writer, Former Broadway Dancer

Bilal Baig

Actor, Writer & Director, Best Known for "Sort Of"

Lucy Alibar

The movie that Alibar cowrote, Beasts of the Southern Wild, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah; at Cannes in May, where it was given a 15-minute standing ovation, it scored the Camra dOr prize for best first feature.

Nina Jennings

Award Winning Writer & Playwright, Technologist, Advocate for Diversity in Product Development, Sr. UX Researcher at Google Cloud Platform

Afaa Weaver

Award Winning Poet, Playwright & Translator

Lynn Nottage

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright

Fanshen Cox

President of TruJuLo Productions, Award-Winning Playwright, Actor, Producer & Educator

Calvin Kasulke

Author, "Several People Are Typing" and Recipient of a Lambda Literary Fellowship in Playwriting

Diz White

Actress, Author "Cotswolds Memoir: Discovering a Beautiful Region of Britain on a Quest to Buy a 17th Century Cottage"

Kae Tempest

British Rapper, Poet & Playwright

Beau Willimon

Creator & Screenwriter, "House of Cards"

JL King

CEO of King Publishing & Author of "Coming Up from the Down Low: The Journey to Acceptance, Healing, and Honest Love"

Reanae McNeal

Award-Winning International Educator, Storyteller, Playwright, Performing/Visual Artist, Cultural Activist & Minister