These author speakers challenge the status quo, fight for civil rights, and seek to transform the criminal justice system. Their talks reveal pathways to change and compelling visions for the future.
Reginald Dwayne Betts Author of A Question of Freedom, PEN New England Award winner, and national spokesperson for the Campaign for Youth Justice
Ta-Nehisi Coates #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Between the World and Me and We Were Eight Years in Power
Carlotta Walls LaNier Youngest of the Little Rock Nine, civil rights advocate, National Women's Hall of Fame inductee
Bryan Stevenson Attorney, human rights activist, Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and author of Just Mercy
Brit Bennett Debut novelist of New York Times-bestselling The Mothers, National Book Foundation 2016 5 Under 35 Honoree
Damien Echols & Lorri Davis Documentarians, experts on the justice system and speakers on Life After Death
Amanda Lucidon Obama White House photographer, award-winning filmmaker, and New York Times-bestselling author
Isabel Wilkerson Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the critically acclaimed bestseller The Warmth of Other Suns