Speakers on Social Justice
Pragya Agarwal
knows the personal is always political.
Kaveh Akbar
is relentlessly pursuing the truth.
Ayad Akhtar
tells many stories in many ways.
Rumaan Alam
makes the ordinary extraordinary.
Hala Alyan
is seeding a new narrative.
Anthony Arnove
fights for the people.
Andrew Aydin
knows we must understand our history to fight for our future.
Rich Benjamin
holds up a mirror.
Mona Chalabi
is taking the numb out of numbers.
Andrei Codrescu
is an OG.
Tameka Cage Conley
bridges the gaps.
David Dennis Sr.
helped start a movement.
David Dennis Jr.
is a living legacy.
Akwaeke Emezi
is a revelation.
Eve Ewing
has a radical imagination.
Camonghne Felix
is equally at home in poetry and politics.
Roxane Gay
is feminist AF.
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah
is a brilliant tour guide to the most fascinating places.
Michelle Goldberg
calls it like it is.
Alvin Hall
is showing his range.
Khaled Hosseini
makes books like Bruce Springsteen makes albums.
Mira Jacob
has the hard conversations.
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
is writing love letters to lineage.
Ashley M. Jones
is a poet for the people.
Brian Klaas
keeps tabs on authoritarianism. He’s pretty busy most days.
R.O. Kwon
sets the page aflame.
Lyz Lenz
will get you fired up.
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
understands the cost of war and the power of literature.
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
is tearing down boundaries.
Sarah Thankam Mathews
builds community on and off the page.
Natalia Molina
makes sense of community.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
calls us to re-examine our own history.
Julian Brave NoiseCat
will get it all done.
Maulik Pancholy
is an actor, activist, author - basically The Best At It.
Morgan Parker
is a poetic provocateur.
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
is uncovering silences in the archives.
Junauda Petrus
meets the struggle with sweetness.
Derecka Purnell
calls for action.
Liara Roux
is amplifying high-risk voices.
Carina del Valle Schorske
translates beautifully.
Sarah Smarsh
knows which way the wind is blowing.
James Spooner
is redrawing the lines.
Jason Stanley
knows that words matter and why.
Amber Tamblyn
fights like a girl.
Luis Alberto Urrea
is a literary badass with a rock and roll heart.
Krish O’Mara Vignarajah
views the world with open arms.
