Aaron Joy

respected rock music critic, label owner & interviewer & spiritual author

Aaron Maniam

Senior Director (Industry) at Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry

Aaron Samuels

Co-Founder & COO of Blavity

Ada Limon

American Poet Laureate; National Book Award Finalist

Lucky Wreck: Poems

Adora Svitak

Author, Speaker, Youth Advocate & Child Welfare Professional

Afaa Weaver

Award Winning Poet, Playwright & Translator

Ahlam Bolooki

Festival Director of Emirates Airline Festival of Literature

Aisha Fukushima

Performance Lecturer, Justice Strategist, Facilitator, Vocalist & Founder of RAPtivism

Intersectionality matters: Aisha Fukushima at TEDxWhitmanCollege

Aku Kadogo

Theater Director, Choreographer, Educator & Cultural Arts Preservationist

Al Letson

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

Alan Berg

A leader in the field of marketing to brides for local wedding professionals

Alexandra Elle

Author & Wellness Consultant

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Writer, Scholar, Poet, Activist & Educator

Alfre Woodard

Emmy Award-Winning Actress; Human Rights Activist

Alice Walker

Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award-Winning Author; Best Known for "The Color Purple"

Alissa Quart

Author of "Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America"

Allison Russell

Grammy Award-Winning Singer-Songwriter, Poet, Activist & Multi-Instrumentalist

Allison Russell: Tiny Desk Concert

Alok Vaid-Menon

Gender Non-Conforming Writer, Performance Artist, LGBTQ Rights Activist

Alyesha Wise

Writer, Poet & Educator; Co-Founder of Spoken Literature Art Movement

Amal Kassir

Syrian-American Muslim Storytelling Activist & Poet

Amanda Gorman

Inaugural Youth Poet Laureate of the U.S.

Amanda Seales

Poet, Spoken Word Artist & Media Personality Known for HBO's "Insecure;" Anti-Smoking Activist

Amena Brown

Spoken Word Poet, Performing Artist & Author

Amir Sulaiman

Poet, Recording Artist, Actor, Screenwriter and Producer

Ana Castillo

Chicana Author, Essayist & Poet

Andrea Gibson

Poet & Activist

The Madness Vase

Andy Shallal

CEO of Busboys and Poets, Artist, Award-Winning Activist & Philanthropist

Anis Mojgani

Acclaimed Performance Poet; National Poetry Slam Champion

Anne Carson

Award-Winning Canadian Poet, Essayist and Professor, MacArthur Fellowship Award Winner, Lannan Literary Award Winner

Apiorkor Seyiram Ashong-Abbey

Ghanaian Poet, Author, Literary Critic, Media Practitioner & Activist