Thomas King

Award-Winning First Nations Writer

Jason Reynolds

Critically Acclaimed Author & NAACP Image Award Winner

Christine A. Platt

Author & Managing Director of The Antiracist Research & Policy Center at American University

Rebecca, Not Becky: A Novel

Damon Young

Co-Founder of Very Smart Brothas & Author of "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker"

T Kira Madden

Author of "Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls"

Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Author of "Heads of the Colored People"

Naima Coster

Award-Winning Author of "Halsey Street" & "What’s Mine and Yours"

Morgan Jerkins​

Contributing Editor at Catapult & Author of "This Will Be My Undoing"

Kwame Alexander

Poet, Educator, Publisher, Emmy Award Winning Producer & New York Times Bestselling Author Known for "The Crossover"

Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope

Sherman Alexie

Poet, Short Story Writer, Novelist, and Performer

Gilbert King

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author, Known for "Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America"

Justin Phillip Reed

National Book Award Longlisted Poet

Daniel Gumbiner

Author of "The Boatbuilder"

Kirstin Chen

Author of "Bury What We Cannot Take"

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

Fiction Author & Professor at the University of Notre Dame

Kim Fu

Award-Winning Author, Known for "The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore"

Mira T. Lee

Author of "Everything Here is Beautiful"

Yuyi Morales

Award-Winning Children's Book Author & Illustrator

Ijeoma Oluo

Writer & Social Activist Known for Her Work on Issues of Race & Identity; Author of "So You Want to Talk About Race"

Michael W. Twitty

Culinary Historian & Author of "Rice: a Savor the South cookbook" (Savor the South Cookbooks)

Michael Twitty Teaches Tracing Your Roots Through Food

Stacey Abrams

Political Leader, Voting Rights Activist & New York Times Bestselling Author

Jeff Hobbs

New York Times Best-Selling Author of "The Tourists" & "The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace"

Danielle Evans

Author of "Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self" & Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Yusef Komunyakaa

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet & Professor at NYU

Luvvie Ajayi

New York Times Best-Selling Author, Podcast Host & Professional Troublemaker

Mohsin Hamid

Author, "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" and "How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia"

Tim Wise

Anti-Racist Essayist, Author & Educator; Expert on White Privilege & Advocate for Belonging

Elie Mystal

Justice Correspondent, Attorney, Writer & Political Commentator

Erika Lee

Historian; Author, "America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia" & "The Making of Asian America"

Randi Pink

Advocate & Author Known for "Angel of Greenwood"