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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Between the World and Me and We Were Eight Years in Power
Dr. Jennifer L. Eberhardt Award-winning social psychologist and one of the world’s leading experts on unconscious bias
Anand Giridharadas Editor-at-large for TIME and author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Brit Bennett Debut novelist of New York Times-bestselling The Mothers, National Book Foundation 2016 5 Under 35 Honoree
Carlotta Walls LaNier Youngest of the Little Rock Nine, civil rights advocate, National Women's Hall of Fame inductee
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