Diversity + Inclusion Speakers

These diversity author speakers spark engaging conversations, challenge convention, and bring thoughtful nuance to the many topics in diversity and inclusion today.

Prentis Hemphill

Bestselling author, political organizer, founder and director of The Embodiment Institute

Cathy Park Hong

Award-winning poet and New York Times-bestselling author of Minor Feelings

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

National Book Award-winning historian and #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist

Sarah McBride

U.S. Representative for the State of Delaware and LGBTQAI+ activist

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Dr. Uché Blackstock

Founder and Chief Advisor of Advancing Health Equity, emergency physician, and New York Times-bestselling author of Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

Jennifer Finney Boylan

Author of the bestselling memoir She's Not There, President of PEN America, and celebrated LGBTQ activist

Porter Braswell

Executive Chairman and co-founder of Jopwell and author of Let Them See You

Lauren Smith Brody

Founder of The Fifth Trimester movement and Co-Founder of the Chamber of Mothers

Francisco Cantú

Author of the bestselling memoir The Line Becomes a River and former US Border Patrol Agent

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me and The Message

Christian Cooper

Emmy Award-winning host of Extraordinary Birder on National Geographic and bestselling author of Better Living Through Birding

Jay Ellis

NAACP Image Award-winning actor, director, producer, and author of Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?

June Eric-Udorie

Feminist activist, Editor of Can We All Be Feminists? and DEI Programme Manager for Flexa

Ping Fu

Co-Founder of Geomagic, author of Bend, Not Break, Executive chairman of Gelsight

Jasmin Graham

Shark Scientist, environmental educator, and President/CEO of Minorities in Shark Sciences (MISS)

Yaa Gyasi

Author of Homegoing and Transcendent Kingdom, and recipient of the National Book Foundation's 'Under 35' award

Hahrie Han

Political scientist, Director of SNF Agora Institute, and leading expert on social movements

Dr. Michele Harper

Emergency room physician and author of the New York Times-bestselling The Beauty in Breaking

Kristin Henning

Professor of Law at Georgetown University and author of The Rage of Innocence

Eric Holder

Former U.S. attorney general and esteemed civil rights leader

Lachi

Award-winning recording artist, disability rights activist, and CEO/Founder of RAMPD

Dinaw Mengestu

Named one of The New Yorker "20 Under 40" writers to watch and author of The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears and How to Read the Air

Celeste Ng

Author of the New York Times bestseller Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere

Beth Nguyen

Author of Pioneer Girl, Stealing Buddha's Dinner and Short Girls

Tommy Orange

Bestselling novelist and author of There There and Wandering Stars

Priya Parker

Facilitator, strategic advisor, and acclaimed author of The Art of Gathering

Eduardo Porter

Economics reporter at The New York Times and author of American Poison

Carla Power

Journalist and author of Pulitzer Prize finalist If the Oceans Were Ink

Eve Rodsky

New York Times-bestselling author and creative leadership expert

Shaka Senghor

Author of Letters to the Sons of Society and Writing My Wrongs and leading voice on criminal justice reform

Chris Smalls

Labor organizer and president and co-founder of the Amazon Labor Union

Tourmaline

Award-winning artist, filmmaker, author of Marsha

Ocean Vuong

MacArthur Fellow and New York Times-bestselling author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and Oprah's Book Club pick The Emperor of Gladness

Holly Whitaker

Bestselling author of Quit Like a Woman and Founder of Tempest, Inc.

Nicola Yoon

#1 New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist

Charles Yu

National Book Award-winning author of Interior Chinatown

Javier Zamora

Memoirist, poet, and author of Solito, and a winner of the 2023 American Book Award.

Michelle Zauner

Frontwoman of Japanese Breakfast and author of New York Times bestselling Crying in H Mart
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