Category Speakers: 2026 speaker

Chris Jackson, Publisher Chris Jackson is Executive Vice President, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of One World and Roc Lit 101, imprints of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House. Over his career Chris has edited and published a wide range of bestselling and award-winning authors, including Ta-Nehisi Coates, Bryan Stevenson, Nikole...

Marlon James, Producer Marlon James won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for A Brief History of Seven Killings, making him the first Jamaican author to take home the U.K.’s most prestigious literary award. In addition to the Man Booker Prize, A Brief History of Seven Killings won the...