Rhodessa Jones
Using playwriting, acting, and directing, she has created her own brand of social work designed to empower incarcerated women and women with HIV.
Using playwriting, acting, and directing, she has created her own brand of social work designed to empower incarcerated women and women with HIV.
Nicola Yoon is the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of “Everything, Everything” and “The Sun Is Also a Star,” both of which have been adapted into major motion pictures, as well as “Instructions for Dancing.”
American young adult author
Nuar Alsadir, a poet and psychoanalyst, is the author of “Fourth Person Singular,” which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and the Forward Prize for Best Collection.
In 1972, Beatrice Faust was a founder of the Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) in Australia.
Pam Muñoz Ryan has written more than 40 books for young people of all ages.
American fantasy novelist
Ngozi Ukazu is the creator of “Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey” (First Second), an online graphic novel whose printing campaign remains the most funded web comics Kickstarter ever, having raised almost $400,000 by May 2019.
Irish journalist and novelist
Aboriginal Australian photography and video artist