Past Guest Speakers

Aileen Barber, Newsday
Judy Blundell, What I Saw and How I Lied
Vanessa Bush, Essence magazine
Ingrid Hu Dahl, Youth Media Reporter
Erin Darby & Ana Henao, SIC
Phoebe Damrosch, Service Included: Four Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter
Erin Darby & Ana Henao, S.I.C. Movement
Carole Deletiner, Fashion Institute of Technology
Amanda Diva, Def Poetry Jam, "HipHopNation," MTV2, Floetry
Janice Erlbaum, Have You Found Her
Meghann Foye, Seventeen magazine
V.V. (Sugi) Ganeshananthan, freelance journalist
Melanie Maria Goodreaux, Saydee and Deelores
Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Katori Hall, Hoodoo Love
Anne Hathaway, The Devil Wears Prada, Dancing with Shiva
Nellie Hermann, The Cure for Grief
Marlon James, The Book of Night Women
Tayari Jones, The Untelling
Melissa Kirsch, The Girl's Guide to Absolutely Everything
Andre Lancaster, Hope Courage
Anne Landsmann, The Rowing Lesson
Jennifer 8. Lee, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
Jenny Lumet, Dancing with Shiva
Pooja Makhijani, Under Her Skin: How Girls Experience Race in America
Courtney Martin, Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy
of Hating Your Body
Julie May, The Institute for Expressive Analysis
Marianne Pillsbury, The Wrong Marianne
Parker Pracjek, Urban Word NYC
Nahid Rachlin, Persian Girls
Amy Robach, Nightly News on NBC
Angie Romero, Latina magazine
Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Lisa Ann Sandell, Song of the Sparrow
Dr. Catherine Savini, Columbia University
Deborah Siegel, Sisterhood Interrupted: from Radical Women to Grrrls Gone Wild
Mandy Stadtmiller, The New York Post
J. Courtney Sullivan, Commencement
Dodai Stewart, Jezebel.com
Jean Thompson, Do Not Deny Me
Renee Watson, Community Word Project
Beverly Weintraub, Daily News
Lila Yomtoob, High Life
Lila Zemborian, Mauve Sea-Orchids