Rita Williams-Garcia

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Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Author of "Heads of the Colored People"

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Akwaeke Emezi

Award-Winning Author & Video Artist

Yusef Komunyakaa

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet & Professor at NYU

Dolores Barclay

Author, Professor at Columbia School of Journalism & Former National Writer and Arts Editor of The Associated Press

Naima Coster

Award-Winning Author of "Halsey Street"

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Ijeoma Oluo

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

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Margot Lee Shetterly

Author of "Hidden Figures"

Kwame Alexander

NY Times Bestselling and Newbery Award-Winning Author, Poet, Educator, Best Known for Novels "Booked" and "The Crossover"

Cassandra Clare

Author of the #1 New York Times, USA TODAY, Wall Street Journal & Publishers Weekly Bestselling "Mortal Instruments" Series

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Renowned African Novelist & Speaker

Alice Walker

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

Tiffany Jewell

Anti-Racist Educator, Author of "This Book is Anti-Racist"

Ruth King

Author, Educator, Former Development Consultant to Intel & Levi Strauss

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Oyinkan Braithwaite

Award-Winning Author, Writer & Feminist

Nnedi Okorafor

International Award-Winning Fantasy & Science Fiction Author

Michael Arceneaux

Best-Selling Author of "I Can't Date Jesus"

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Yuyi Morales

Award-Winning Children's Book Author & Illustrator

Morgan Jerkins​

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

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Thomas King

Award-Winning First Nations Writer

Marlon James

Critically Acclaimed Jamaican Novelist, Known for "A Brief History of Seven Killings"

Rainbow Rowell

Author Known for "Landline," "Attachments," "Fangirl," "Eleanor & Park" & "Carry On"

John Cantwell

John Cantwell, Guest Writer / United States / Superscript. He currently lives in San Francisco and writes for Facebook.

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Author, Professor, Feminist, & Social Activist

Annette Gordon-Reed

Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Terry McMillan

NY Times Best-Selling Author

James Patterson

NY Times Best-Selling Author & Reading Champion

J.K. Rowling

Author of the "Harry Potter" Series

Angela Davis

Feminist, Social Activist, Professor & Writer

Paul Ortiz

Historian, Professor, Author of "An African American History of the United States"

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