2024 SPEAKERS AND ARTISTS

  • Megan Beyer

    Director, Art in Embassies

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  • Elsabé Johnson Dixon

    Visual Artist

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  • Her Excellency Maguy Maccario Doyle

    Ambassador of Monaco to the United States and Canada

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  • Nicole Elkon

    Deputy Assistant Secretary for Professional and Cultural Exchanges, Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State

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  • Emilio Estefan

    Music, Television, and Film Producer

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  • Gloria Estefan

    Singer, Actress, Songwriter, and Author

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  • Lorrie Fair

    Sports Envoy and Chief Program Director, Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project

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  • Halim Flowers

    Visual Artist

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  • Jeffrey Gibson (Mississippi Choctaw/Cherokee)

    Visual Artist

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  • Jerome Grant

    Executive Chef, Sweet Home Café

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  • The Honorable Stuart Holliday

    CEO, Meridian International Center

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  • Danita Johnson

    President of Business Operations, D.C. United

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  • Scott Kratz

    Director, 11th Street Bridge Park

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  • Aba Kwawu

    President and Founder, TAA PR

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  • Dan Mickelson

    Sports Diplomacy Chief, U.S. Department of State

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  • Ana Navarro

    Co-Host, The View

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  • Rose Previte

    Owner, Compass Rose & Maydan

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  • Ali Rogin

    Correspondent, PBS NewsHour

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  • AJ Ross

    Correspondent, CBS Sports

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  • Virginia Shore

    Co-Curator, Mother Earth

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  • Sarah Tanguy

    Co-Curator, Mother Earth

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  • Alan van Capelle

    Executive Director, Friends of the High Line

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2023 SPEAKERS AND ARTISTS

Nolen V. Bivens

President and CEO, Americans for the Arts

Irina Bokova

Former Director-General, UNESCO

Marianne Boesky

Founder, Marianne Boesky Gallery

Kaitlan Collins

Host, CNN’s The Source

Nekisha Durrett

DC Artist, For Freedoms

Vanessa Friedman

Fashion Editor, New York Times

Tuliza Fleming

Curator of Visual Art at the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Maria Fernanda Garcia Velazco

Cultural Attaché, Embassy of Uruguay

Eric Gottesman

Co-founder, For Freedoms

Jonathan Katz. Ph.D.

Founding Figure in Queer Art History, University of Pennsylvania

Richard Kurin

Smithsonian Distinguished Scholar and Ambassador-at-Large, Smithsonian

Aba Kwawu

Founder & President, TAA PR

Deborah Lehr

CEO and Managing Partner,

Edelman Global Advisory

Patricia Michaels

Native Designer and

Project Runway finalist

Marilyn Minter

Artist

T.H. Lee Satterfield

Assistant Secretary of State for the

Bureau of Educational

and Cultural Affairs

Dr. Kateryna Smagliy

First Secretary, Public and Cultural Diplomacy, Embassy of Ukraine

Hank Willis Thomas

Artist and Co-founder

For Freedoms

2022 SPEAKERS AND ARTISTS

Laura Ballman

Founder, Capital Art Strategies

Def-i

Musician

Krista Kim

Digital Artist and Founder,

Techism Movement

Faridah Mohammed

Representative,

Embassy of Nigeria

Symone Sanders

Host.

MSNBC’s SYMONE

Ngaire Blankenberg

Director, Smithsonian National

Museum of African Art

Kevin Gover

Under Secretary for Museums

and Culture, Smithsonian

Kate Knibbs

Senior Writer, WIRED

Wanda Nanibush

Curator of Indigenous Art, Art Gallery of Ontario and

Author, Violence No More:

The Rise of Indigenous Women.

Mark V. Vlasic

Senior Fellow and Adjunct

Professor of Law at

Georgetown University Law Center

David Breslin

Director of Curatorial Initiatives,

Whitney Museum of American Art

Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle

Global Director of Online Sales,

Pace Gallery NYC

Courtney M. Leonard

Artist and Filmmaker

Jami Powell

Curator of Indigenous Art,

Hood Museum of Art

2021 SPEAKERS AND ARTISTS

Bela Bajaria

Head of Global TV, Netflix

Carla Canales

Classical Singer/Advocate

Jonathan Capehart

Journalist

Allison Janae Hamilton

Visual Artist

Kal Penn

Actor; Former Associate Director

White House Office of Public Engagement

Art Smith

Chef, Culinary Diplomacy Project

Laurent Claquin

President, Kering Americas

Midori

Violinist

Pedro Reyes

Visual Artist

Fred Tomaselli

Visual Artist

Alan Yang

American Screenwriter

Massimiliano Gioni

Artistic Director, The New Museum

Rachel Lehmann

Co-founder, Lehmann Maupin

Shirin Neshat

Visual Artist

Divinity Roxx

Musician/Composer

Darren Walker

President, Ford Foundation