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.

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 New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist

Sarah McBride

Delaware State Senator-elect, LGBTQ activist, and National Press Secretary for the Human Rights Campaign

Isabel Wilkerson

Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste

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Moustafa Bayoumi

Journalist and author of How Does it Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America

Francisco Cantú

Former US Border Patrol Agent and author of The Line Becomes a River

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#1 New York Times-bestselling author of Between the World and Me and We Were Eight Years in Power

Dr. Matthew Delmont

Expert on African-American history and author of Black Quotidian and Half American

Evette Dionne

Editor-in-chief of Bitch Media and author of the National Book Award longlisted title: Lifting as We Climb

Ping Fu

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

Yaa Gyasi

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

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 Univeristy and author of The Rage of Innocence

Therese Huston

Author of Let’s Talk: Make Effective Feedback Your Superpower

Ha Jin

National Book Award-winning novelist, international bestseller, and two-time winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Emily Ladau

Disability rights activist, writer, and speaker

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

Travis Mills

Retired United States Army Staff Sergeant and Recalibrated Warrior

Latasha Morrison

Founder of Be the Bridge and certified trainer in cultural intelligence and unconscious bias

Celeste Ng

Author of the New York Times bestseller Everything I Never Told You

Kwame Onwuachi

James Beard Award-winning Chef and author of Notes from a Young Black Chef

Priya Parker

Facilitator, strategic advisor, and 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 of Fair Play

Shaka Senghor

Author of the New York Times bestseller Writing My Wrongs and leading voice on criminal justice reform

Sadia Shepard

Documentary filmmaker and author of The Girl from Foreign

Steve Silberman

Award-winning science writer and New York Times-bestselling author of NeuroTribes

David Treuer

Author of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee and Rez Life

Ocean Vuong

Poet and author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Holly Whitaker

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

Jacqueline Woodson

National Book Award and four-time Newbery Honor Winner, MacArthur Fellow, and bestselling author of Red at the Bone

Nicola Yoon

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

Charles Yu

National Book Award-winning author of Interior Chinatown