Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

Fiction Author & Professor at the University of Notre Dame

Kirstin Chen

Author of "Bury What We Cannot Take"

Mira T. Lee

Author of "Everything Here is Beautiful"

Morgan Jerkins​

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

Parul Sehgal

Parul Sehgal is an editor for The New York Times Book Review

Alice Walker

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

Melissa Baron

Author of "Twice in a Lifetime"

Naima Coster

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

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

Sahar Delijani

Iranian Author Best Known for "Children of the Jacaranda Tree"

Cassandra Clare

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

Azure Antoinette

CEO, Commissioned Poet & Author, Millennial Advocate

Jasmin Darznik

Iranian Immigrant; Author & Cultural Historian

Kate White

Former Editor-In-Chief of Cosmopolitan Magazine; New York Times Best-Selling Author

Maira Kalman

Author and illustrator

Erin Gruwell

Founder & Executive Director of the Freedom Writers Foundation; Education Reform Advocate

Temple Grandin

World-Famous Animal Scientist, Autism Self-Advocate & Author of "Thinking in Pictures: My Life With Autism"

TEMPLE GRANDIN on the Three Kinds of Kids

Nikki Giovanni

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

‘Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project’ Review: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey

Sherman Alexie

Poet, Short Story Writer, Novelist, and Performer

Ellen Oh

Young Adult & Middle Grade Author & Editor; Founding Member of We Need Diverse Books

We Still Belong

Enuma Okoro

Nigerian-American Author and Lecturer; Columnist, Financial Times; Global Citizen

Silence and Other Surprising Invitations of Advent

Robin Ess

Spoken Word Artist, Visual & Performing Artist, Community Activist & Columnist

Suzanne S. Rancourt

Indigenous Author, Poet & USMC Veteran

Valerie Wilson Wesley

Award Winning Mystery & Romance Author

Ayana Gray

NY Bestselling Author of "Beasts of Prey"

Deanna Singh

Social Entrepreneur, Change Agent & Author of "Purposeful Hustle"; Advocate of Inclusion and Belonging in the Workplace

T Kira Madden

Author of "Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls"

Anna Burns

Man Booker Prize-Winning Author

Justin Phillip Reed

National Book Award Longlisted Poet

Tahereh Mafi

New York Times Bestselling Author of the "Shatter Me" Series