Zainab Salbi
Loung Ung
Jaha Dukureh
Wynton Marsalis
Suketu Mehta

Zainab Salbi

Bestselling Author, TV Host &
Founder of Women for Women International

Host of the PBS TV Show #MeToo. Now What?
New book: Freedom Is An Inside Job

Loung Ung

Activist and Author of the bestseller
First They Killed My Father.

Now an Angelina Jolie feature film • Netflix.

Jaha Dukureh

• Founder of Safe Hands for Girls & Survivor of FGM and Child Marriage

• First ever UN Goodwill Ambassador to Africa for FGM & Child Marriage

• 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee

Wynton Marsalis

Trumpeter • Composer • Bandleader • Educator

Managing & Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center

Suketu Mehta

Author of This Land Is Our Land:
An Immigrant's Manifesto (FSG, May 2019)

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

Highlighted Speakers

Zainab Salbi

Called "One of the 25 Women Changing the World" by People & “100 Leading Global Thinkers” by Foreign Policy Magazine, the founder of Women for Women International, Bestselling Author and TV Host of #Me Too, Now What?, the PBS, five part series broadcast nation-wide, taking the discussion of Sexual Harassment to another level. Her new book Freedom is an Inside Job: Owning Our Darkness and Our Light to Heal Ourselves and the World was just published (October, 2018). View her full page to see her wide-ranging lecture topics.

Loung Ung

The activist and bestselling author of First They Killed My Father: A daughter of Cambodia remembers, now a critically acclaimed feature film produced and directed by Angelina Jolie, released by Netflix. Loung Ung shares her story of survival during the Cambodian genocide and her work as an activist in a lecture that delivers "an empowering message of survival, activism and gratitude."

Mark Mathabane

Mark Mathabane, author of the international bestselling memoir,
Kaffir Boy: The True Story of A Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa, challenges both blacks and whites to use the language of the African philosophy of Ubuntu to overcome the stereotypes, half-truths, misconceptions, and mistaken beliefs they have of each other so they can connect as human beings to achieve racial healing.

David Shipler

The veteran New York Times journalist is author of seven books including: the New York Times bestseller The Working Poor: Invisible in America; Arab and Jew, which won the Pulitzer Prize, Freedom of Speech: Mightier Than the Sword and Rights at Risk: The Limits of Liberty in Modern America, among others. He addresses a range of critical issues from poverty to free speech to civil liberties, and more.

TRANSparency: A Panel of 3 Trans Writers

TRANSparency Speaking Our Truths is a Panel Conversation with three Trans Survivors of Domestic and Cultural Assault Featuring Contributors of the book Written on the Body: Letters from Trans and Non-Binary Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence, Edited by Lexie Bean. The book is a "50 Best LGBT Books of 2018" selection by Autostraddle.com. The panel takes audiences beyond stereotypes to meet real people and share real stories, to humanize and foster and understanding of the reality of being trans.

Temple Grandin

The most accomplished and well-known adult with autism in the world. The bestselling author, innovator & animal scientist was subject of the HBO feature film “Temple Grandin,” starring Claire Danes. Her TED Talk "The World Needs All Kinds Of Minds," has been viewed almost 5 million times. Dr. Grandin is sought after globally to speak about her experiences with autism, cattle handling and the humane treatment of animals. She has been featured widely in the global media. Time Magazine named her one of the world's 100 most influential people.