Ed Catmull Co-founder and president of Pixar Animation Studios, president of Walt Disney Animation Studios, author of Creativity, Inc. Featured Speaker
Bryan Stevenson Attorney, human rights activist, Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and author of Just Mercy Featured Speaker
Colson Whitehead Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of The Underground Railroad Featured Speaker
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Joanna Barsh McKinsey Director Emeritus, bestselling author of How Remarkable Women Lead and Centered Leadership and Grow Wherever You Work.
Reginald Dwayne Betts Author of A Question of Freedom, PEN New England Award winner, and national spokesperson for the Campaign for Youth Justice
Jennifer Finney Boylan Author of the bestselling memoir She's Not There and celebrated LGBTQ activist
Rick Bragg Pulitzer Prize-winning memoirist and author of All Over But the Shoutin', Ava's Man, and The Prince of Frogtown
Geraldine Brooks Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning March and the international bestselling People of the Book