Shemeka Brathwaite

Professional Speaker, Certified Coach, Trainer and Career Alignment Expert

Warsan Shire

Award-Winning Poet' Displacement & Belonging Advocate; Author of "Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth"

Jill Scott

Grammy Award-Winning Singer, Songwriter, Actress & Poet

Nico Tortorella

Award-Winning Actor, Model, Poet & Podcaster

Judith Reichman

Women’s Health Expert, Physician Correspondent for the Today Show, and Bestselling Author

Harry Baker

Slam Poet

Remi Kanazi

Poet, Human Rights Activist & Author of "Poetic Injustice: Writings on Resistance & Palestine"

Cherríe L. Moraga

Award-Winning Playwright, Poet, and Essayist

Lee Mokobe

Internationally Published Poet, TEDx Speaker & Human Rights Activist; Creative Director at Vocal Revolutionaries

Tracy K. Smith

Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet, 22nd Poet Laureate of the U.S. & Acclaimed Memoirist; Professor at Harvard University

'Here and Now, Elsewhere and Before: A Talk and Reading on Poetry and Time'

Lisa Bu

Lisa Bu has built a career helping people find great stories to listen to. Now she tells her own story.

Cristina Domenech

Poet & Educator; Coordinator of Education & Public Programs at The Hispanic Society of America

Rick Tumlinson

One of the World's Top Space Visionaries; Founder of the Commercial Space Movement; Founding Trustee of the XPrize

Taylor Mali

Acclaimed Performance Poet, Education Advocate, Author of "What Teachers Make"

Marion Winik

Award-Winning Author, Humorist and NPR Commentator

Stephanie Burt

Acclaimed Poet & Teacher; Literary Critic & Essayist

Camille Paglia

Author, Feminist & Social Critic; Professor at The University of the Arts

Isabella Rose Taylor

Artist, Designer, Poet, Tween Prodigy

Mary Karr

Poet, Essayist, & Memoirist; "Viper Rum," "The Devil's Tour," "Abacus," "The Liars' Club"

Carvens Lissaint

International Award-Winning Poet, Actor & Singer