Phyliss Carpenter
US Air Force veteran
US Air Force veteran
US Air Force veteran
Black Honduran American writer, founder of The Bronx is Reading and creator of Honduran Garifuna Writers.
Using playwriting, acting, and directing, she has created her own brand of social work designed to empower incarcerated women and women with HIV.
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.
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
South African curator who fiercely promoted African art internationally
Dr Thomas was an integral part of the early Landsat digital image processing team, making Earth observation from space a reality.
African-American civil rights activist