Speakers

Youngest of the Little Rock Nine, civil rights advocate, National Women's Hall of Fame inductee

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

Disability rights activist, writer, and speaker

Bestselling author of Defending Jacob, former district attorney

Critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of historical fiction

American journalist, media personality, and author of Detroit: An American Autopsy

New York Times-bestselling author of The Surrendered and Native Speaker

Political journalist and author of This Town and Big Game

Personal finance expert and author of Finance for the People

Author of the New York Times-bestselling book, Ghettoside

Author of the New York Times-bestselling memoir The Rules Do Not Apply

Songwriter, actor, and lead singer for Huey Lewis and the News

National Book Award-winning poet, author of Voyage of the Sable Venus

Anthropologist, professor, and author of National Book Award winnerSoldiers and Kings

MacArthur “Genius Grant” fellow, writer of celebrated short stories and The Book of Love

Educator, poet, and author of Lift Off

New York Times-bestselling author of We Were Liars and inventor of DC Comics superhero Whistle

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Embers of War and Vietnam War historian

Financial journalist and bestselling author of The End of Wall Street

Obama White House photographer, award-winning filmmaker, and New York Times-bestselling author

Food and agricultural economist, author of The Food Police