Gala

Keynote Speaker: Tananarive Due

Tananarive Due is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She's been a leading voice in Black speculative fiction for more than 20 years. Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights.