Melissa Baron

Author of "Twice in a Lifetime"

Anna Holmes

Founder and Editor of Online Women's Magazine, Jezebel. Editor, writer (Glamour, NY Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, New Yorker.com, many others.)

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

Fiction Author & Professor at the University of Notre Dame

Morgan Jerkins​

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

Sabine Heller

CEO of invitation only social community ASMALLWORLD, and Editor at large at Vogue.it and Purple.

Rebecca Walker

Bestselling Author & Founder of the Third Wave Feminism Movement

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Maira Kalman

Author and illustrator

Robin Ess

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

Danyel Smith

Author, Host of "Black Girl Songbook" Podcast; Editor, Producer & Educator

T Kira Madden

Author of "Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls"

Josie Silver

Women's Fiction Author Best Known For "One Day in December"

Kirstin Chen

Author of "Bury What We Cannot Take"

Kim Fu

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

Mira T. Lee

Author of "Everything Here is Beautiful"

Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

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Ijeoma Oluo

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

Cleo Wade

Artist, Poet & Author

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

Danielle Evans

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

Noël Jones

Writer, Slam Poet, Former member of the 2000 National Poetry Slam Champion Team NYC-Urbana

Laura Munson

New York Times Best-Selling Author

Elif Shafak

The Most-Read Female Author in Turkey; Award-Winning Author

Joyce Maynard

Journalist & Best-Selling Author

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Jasmin Darznik

Iranian Immigrant; Author & Cultural Historian

Meg Tilly

Award-Winning Actress & Author

Kate White

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

Alice Walker

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

Sara Paretsky

Sara Paretsky revolutionized the mystery world when she introduced her private detective, V.I. Warshawski, in her 1982 novel, "Indemnity Only."

Asra Nomani

Journalist & Author, Women's Rights Activist

Gloria Naylor

Best-selling Author