LGBTQAI+ Experience Speakers

As advocates for LGBTQAI+ and gender issues, these author speakers share their stories and explore the complexity of human experience in love, identity, and expression.

Jennifer Finney Boylan

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

Sarah McBride

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

More LGBTQAI+ Experience Speakers

Andrea Bartz

Journalist and New York Times bestselling author of psychological thrillers

Protected: Christian Cooper

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

June Eric-Udorie

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

Prentis Hemphill

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

Ariel Levy

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

Will Schwalbe

New York Times-bestselling author of We Should Not Be Friends

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 The Emperor of Gladness

C Pam Zhang

Novelist of How Much of These Hills is Gold and Land of Milk and Honey, and a National Book Foundation 2020 "5 Under 35" Honoree
Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau