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

Erin Gruwell

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

Alice Walker

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

Iyanla Vanzant

New York Times Best-Selling Author, Spiritual Life Coach & Host of "Iyanla Fix My Life"

Rita Williams-Garcia

Award-Winning Author Best Known For "One Crazy Summer"

Jill Santopolo

Best-selling Author Best Known for "The Light We Lost"

Kim Fu

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

Monica Brown

Children's Book Author

Duncan Tonatiuh

Award-Winning Children's Book Author & Illustrator

Jason Reynolds

Critically Acclaimed Author & NAACP Image Award Winner

Faith Ringgold

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

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

Thomas King

Award-Winning First Nations Writer

Rainbow Rowell

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

Mary Pope Osborne

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

James Dashner

Author of Many Children's Fantasy Series and Adult Books, Including "The Maze Runner" Series

Cassandra Clare

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

Yusef Komunyakaa

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet & Professor at NYU

Mohsin Hamid

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

Manil Suri

Author, The Death of Vishnu

Erica Jong

Feminist, Social Critic, Poet & Author of "Fear of Dying"

Daymond John

"Shark Tank" Investor; Founder & CEO of FUBU; Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship

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

Simon T. Bailey

Speaker, Author, Life Coach & Entrepreneur

Deanna Singh

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

Nnedi Okorafor

International Award-Winning Fantasy & Science Fiction Author

Writing for a Broken World: A Conversation with Nnedi Okorafor

Damon Young

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

Ella Frances Sanders

Author & Illustrator Known For "Lost in Translation"

Leslie Connor

Children's Book Author; Known for "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle"

Kirstin Chen

Author of "Bury What We Cannot Take"

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

Fiction Author & Professor at the University of Notre Dame