Speakers

Youngest of the Little Rock Nine, civil rights advocate, National Women's Hall of Fame inductee

New York Times-bestselling memoirist and author of The Tao of Martha

Bestselling author of Defending Jacob, former district attorney

First woman to lead a major motion picture studio, former President of 20th Century Fox, and former Chairman of Paramount Pictures

Critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author and cofounder of SheReads.org

American journalist, media personality, and author of Detroit: An American Autopsy

New York Times-bestselling author of The Surrendered and Native Speaker

Political journalist and author of This Town and Big Game

Author of the New York Times-bestselling book, Ghettoside

Author of the New York Times-bestselling memoir The Rules Do Not Apply

National Book Award-winning poet, author of Voyage of the Sable Venus

World-renowned architect and expert in urban design

Celebrated short story writer of Get in Trouble

Educator, poet, and author of Lift Off

New York Times-bestselling author of We Were Liars

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Embers of War and Vietnam War historian

President of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, political scientist, and author of Cool It

Author of The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music

Financial journalist and bestselling author of The End of Wall Street

Obama White House photographer, award-winning filmmaker, and New York Times-bestselling author

Prominent sportswriter and New York Times bestselling novelist of Travel Team and Heat

Food and agricultural economist, author of The Food Police