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All Categories Speakers Performances Artists Culinary Wellness Register HOME All Categories Speakers Performances Artists Culinary Wellness Register Erin Brockovich Environmentalist & Consumer Advocate It’s been 12 years since Julia Roberts starred in the Oscar-winning tour de force Erin Brockovich . The Steven Soderbergh film turned an unknown legal researcher into a 20th-century icon by showcasing how her dogged persistence was the impelling force behind the largest medical settlement lawsuit in history. Since then, Erin Brockovich has become an environmental activist and law consultant working all around the world on cases similar to her famous fight against Pacific Gas & Electric. Erin is the bestselling author of Take It from Me: Life’s a Struggle But You Can Win and president of Brockovich Research & Consulting. She lives in Southern California with her husband, three children, and five Pomeranians. brockovich.com @erinbrockovich Kendrick Lamar Grammy Award-Winning Recording Artist Platinum-­selling, Grammy-­winning recording artist Kendrick Lamar is one of the rare artists who has achieved critical and commercial success while earning the respect and support of those who inspired him. A native of Compton, California, young Kendrick released Overly Dedicated and Section 80 in 2010–11. Both made Billboard’ s R&B/Hip-Hop charts and caught the attention of Dr. Dre, who signed him to his Aftermath label, releasing good kid, m.A.A.d city in 2012. The album debuted at No. 2 on Billboard ’s Top 200 album charts, spawning three chart­-topping singles and garnering seven Grammy nominations. In 2015, Kendrick released To Pimp a Butterfly , which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard ’s Top 200 Albums. It was also nominated for a whopping 11 Grammys, tying the record set by Michael Jackson’s Thriller and winning five. In 2016, he surprised fans with the sudden release of untitled unmastered , again reaching No. 1. @kendricklamar Herbie Hancock Grammy Award-Winning Musician & Composer Fourteen-time Grammy winner Herbie Hancock is an internationally renowned pianist and composer who has been an integral part of the jazz scene since the sixties. Born in Chicago, he made his way to New York to join Donald Byrd’s band. Hancock’s debut album, Takin’ Off, included Watermelon Man,” the first of many top-ten hits. He became a member of the Miles Davis Quintet, and his innovations during this period are still studied by jazz musicians the world over. His 1983 Grammy winner Rockit,” from the platinum-selling Future Shock , went on to become an anthem in the world of breakdancing and early hip-hop culture, cited by many major hip-hop artists as their original inspiration. His compositions Chameleon” and Maiden Voyage” are also considered classics in the jazz world and beyond. Herbie’s 2007 River: The Joni Letters became the first jazz album in 44 years to win the Grammy for Album of the Year. In 2008, Herbie was named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People, and in 2013 he received the Kennedy Center Honors Award. Still a creative force in jazz, Herbie today serves as chairman of the Thelonious Monk institute of Jazz, is a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, and established and co-chairs International Jazz Day. herbiehancock.com @herbiehancock Quentin Tarantino Filmmaker, Screenwriter, and Actor With his vibrant imagination and dedication to richly layered storytelling, writer and director Quentin Tarantino has established himself as one of the most celebrated filmmakers of his generation. Tarantino wrote and directed the internationally acclaimed films Django Unchained, Pulp Fiction —both of which garnered him an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay— Reservoir Dogs, Death Proof, Jackie Brown , Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill: Volumes 1 & 2 , and, most recently, The Hateful Eight . His other screenplays include True Romance, Natural Born Killers and From Dusk till Dawn . Eric Schmidt Executive Chairman Google | Alphabet Inc. Since joining Google in 2001, Eric Schmidt has helped grow the company from a Silicon Valley startup to a global leader in technology. As executive chairman, he is responsible for the external matters of Google, including partnerships and government outreach. From 2001 to 2011, Eric served as Google’s CEO, overseeing the company’s strategic decisions alongside founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Prior to joining Google, he was the chairman and CEO of Novell and chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems. In 2013, Eric co-authored the New York Times bestselling book The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations , Businesses, and Our Lives. In September 2014, he published his second New York Times bestseller, How Google Works, co-authored with Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle. +EricSchmidt @ericschmidt Sonia Sanchez Award-Winning American Poet International Lecturer on Black Culture & Literature, Women’s Liberation, Peace and Racial Justice Sonia Sanchez is an award-winning poet, playwright, professor, activist, and most often associated with the Black Arts movem ent (the artistic branch of the Black Power movement), the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and MADRE. M aya Angelou called Sonia, a lion in literature’s forest. When she writes she roars, and when she sleeps other creatures walk gingerly.” She is the author of more than 16 books, including Homecoming, We a BaddDDD People , and I’ve Been a Woman . She is the Poetry Society of America’s 2001 Robert Frost Medalistne of the highest honors awarded to a nationally recognized poeand a Ford Freedom Scholar from the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. She was the 2004 recipient of the Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer of the Year, and 2006 winner of the National Visionary Leadership Awards, and Philadelphia’s first Poet Laureate, appointed by Mayor Michael Nutter. She was among 20 African-American women to be a part of "Freedom Sisters", a mobile exhibition initiated by the Cincinnati Museum Center and the Smithsonian Institution. To-date, Sonia has lectured at more than 500 universities and colleges in the United States and hosts live readings from Africa to Cuba to Australia to China. soniasanchez.net @poetsanchez LaDonna Harris President, Americans for Indian Opportunity LaDonna Harris, an enrolled citizen of the Comanche Nation, is founder and president of Americans for Indian Opportunity. LaDonna embraces a multicultural approach and an indigenous worldview when building effective networks and creating systemic change. As a national leader, LaDonna has influenced the agendas of the civil rights, feminist, environmental, and world peace movements. She was a founding member of Common Cause, and in the past was the U.S. representative on UNESCO and to the OAS Inter-American Indigenous Institute. She has been appointed by Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Bill Clinton to several commissions, including the Mental Health of Children, the Celebration of Women in American History, and Al Gore’s Advisory Council on the National Information Infrastructure. Harris serves on the boards of Think New Mexico, the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. aio.org @AIOAmbassadors Dolores Huerta Activist, President, Dolores Huerta Foundation Dolores Huerta is a labor legend and civil rights activist who founded the Dolores Huerta Foundation and co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers. Dolores has received numerous awards for her community service and advocacy for workers’, immigrants’, and women’s rights. Among these awards are the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights, the Eugene V. Debs Foundation Outstanding American Award, Mexico’s Order of the Aztec Eagle, and nine honorary doctorates from universities throughout the United States. doloreshuerta.org @DoloresHuerta will.i.am...