Louis Sachar
Newbery and National Book Award-winning author of Holes
Speakers
Najla Said
Actress, playwright and author of the memoir Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family
Ken Segall
Former Ad Agency Creative Director for NeXT and Apple, author of New York Times bestseller Insanely Simple and Think Simple
Shaka Senghor
Author of Letters to the Sons of Society and Writing My Wrongs and leading voice on criminal justice reform
Gary Shteyngart
New York Times-bestselling author of Little Failure, Super Sad True Love Story, Absurdistan, and Our County Friends
Neil Shubin
Evolutionary biologist and discoverer of the "Missing Link," and author of Your Inner Fish and The Universe Within
Ruth J. Simmons
Former president of Smith College, Brown University, and Prairie View A&M University, Texas’s oldest HBCU
Ruth J. Simmons
Former president of Smith College, Brown University, and Prairie View A&M University, Texas’s oldest HBCU
T.J. Stiles
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, American historian and author of Custer's Trials
Darin Strauss
Bestselling novelist and author of the acclaimed memoir Half a Life, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
Dr. Dana Suskind
Pediatric physician and author of Thirty Million Words: Building a Child's Brain and Parent Nation
Victoria Sweet
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, prize-winning historian, and author of God's Hotel and Slow Medicine
Neil Swidey
Award-winning journalist and author of Trapped Under the Sea, and specialist in risk and safety