Speakers on Multiracial and Mixed Identities
Matthew Salesses
Bestselling Novelist | Asian American Cultural Critic
A leading voice on storytelling, Korean adoptee Matthew Salesses upends Western notions of creativity by challenging how the cultural values of those who created our processes inform the experience.
raquel cepeda
Activist + Author + Filmmaker + Journalist
Award-winning journalist, cultural activist, podcaster, documentary filmmaker, and author, Raquel travels widely to speak to diverse audiences about Latina identity, social justice, gentrification and inequality.
layla f. saad
Global Bestselling Author of Me & White Supremacy | Antiracist Leader and CEO
Layla is an East African, Arab, British, Black, Muslim woman who was born and grew up in the West, and lives in the Middle East. Layla has always sat at a unique intersection of identities from which she is able to draw rich and intriguing perspectives. Her work is driven by her powerful desire to become a good ancestor; to live and work in ways that leave a legacy of healing and liberation for those who will come after she is gone.
annabelle tometich
Award-Winning Author | food writer | restaurant critic | journalist
The Mango Tree is a poignant and deceptively entertaining memoir of growing up as a mixed-race Filipina "nobody" in suburban Florida. Annabelle traces the roots of her upbringing from her erratic father's untimely death in a Fort Myers motel room and her fiery mother's bitter yearning for the country she left behind, to her own journey in the pursuit of belonging.
patricia engel
New York Times BestSelling and INTERNATIONALLY AWARD-WINNING NOVELIST
Born to Colombian parents and raised in New Jersey, Patricia has been awarded the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, her books have been translated into many languages and selected as an NEA Big Read.
tiffany jewell
#1 NYT Bestselling Author | Anti-racist Advocate | Acclaimed Educator | Biracial Storyteller
Tiffany Jewell is a Black biracial writer, twin sister, first generation American, cisgender mama, anti-bias antiracist (ABAR) educator, and consultant. She is the author of the #1 New York Times and #1 Indie Bestseller, This Book Is Anti-Racist, a book for young folks and everyone to wake up, take action, and do the work of becoming antiracist.
hafizah augustus geter
Winner of the PEN Open Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award | A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
Hafizah is a Nigerian-American poet, writer, and literary agent born in Zaria, Nigeria, and raised in Akron, Ohio, and Columbia, South Carolina. Her debut memoir, The Black Period: On Personhood, Race & Origin, won the 2023 PEN Open Book Award.