Kim Fu

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

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

Fiction Author & Professor at the University of Notre Dame

Mira T. Lee

Author of "Everything Here is Beautiful"

Naima Coster

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

Kirstin Chen

Author of "Bury What We Cannot Take"

Faith Ringgold

Civil Rights Activist, Women's Right Activist, Author, Educator & Painter

Artist Faith Ringgold’s life’s work celebrated in New York exhibit

Parul Sehgal

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

Sahar Delijani

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

Alice Walker

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

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

Ellen Oh

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

We Still Belong

Melissa Baron

Author of "Twice in a Lifetime"

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"

Josie Silver

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

Robin Givhan

Fashion Editor for The Washington Post; Pulitzer Prize Winner

Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Author of "Heads of the Colored People"

Christine A. Platt

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

Rebecca, Not Becky: A Novel

Morgan Jerkins​

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

Thomas King

Award-Winning First Nations Writer

Jennifer Pharr Davis

Long-Distance Hiker & Author; Overall Record Holder on the Appalachian Trail & The First Woman to Set That Mark

Outdoor School: Hiking and Camping: The Definitive Interactive Nature Guide

Mary Pope Osborne

Children's Author Known for "The Magic Tree House" Series

Abigail Tarttelin

Author of "Golden Boy" and "Flick"

Cassandra Clare

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

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.)

Azure Antoinette

CEO, Commissioned Poet & Author, Millennial Advocate

Terry McMillan

New York Times Best-Selling Author Known for "Waiting to Exhale" & "How Stella Got Her Groove Back"