These author speakers have been recognized with MacArthur "Genius" Grants for being at the forefront of their chosen fields.
Ta-Nehisi Coates #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me and The Water Dancer
Dr. Jennifer L. Eberhardt Award-winning social psychologist and one of the world’s leading experts on unconscious bias
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
Colson Whitehead Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys
Junot Díaz Author of New York Times bestsellers The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and This is How You Lose Her; winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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