Every February, organizations across the country dedicate the month to celebrating Black History Month and the rich legacy of African American culture, achievements, and resilience. We are proud to represent speakers whose unique insights will inspire and educate your audience.
In 2024, Women’s History Month celebrates the theme Women Who Advocate for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Let yourself be inspired by the speakers on our roster who are fighting for equity and fairness.
Searching for a new book and speaker for your community reading program? Here are some suggestions.
These speakers offer further insights into the remarkable history, culture, and present day of Native Americans.
In 2026 the Speakers Bureau is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Twenty years in, what stands out most isn’t just the scale of what we’ve done, it’s the community behind it.
Redemption is powerful and startling account of the unsparing connection between a convent of cloistered nuns and the condemned women on Texas’s death row, exploring questions around crime and punishment, faith, and retribution in America as only Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, can.
Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of Trust and In the Distance, explores the significance of technology in the American imagination in his newest novel, Ply. Combining Dickensian odyssey, family drama, and scientific thriller, Ply poignantly charts the tenuous boundaries of selfhood and the distance that inevitably stands between us and those we love.
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Kolker comes the heart-wrenching journey of a family whose flawed genetic code might hold the long-sought key to a cure for dementia. The Vanishing Family is an enthralling narrative about one family’s fate, and a medical detective story that speaks to all of us who fear losing ourselves at the end.
Sabaa Tahir, #1 New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award winner, returns to the expansive world of Heir in this gripping conclusion to the action-packed, ruthless, and romantic fantasy duology. Empire weaves together a story of legacy and rebellion, loyalty and freedom, and what it means to confront the monsters that lurk within us all.
Award-winning, bestselling author Emily St. John Mandel returns with a breathtaking novel of doubles, shadow worlds, and fractured timelines as a man disappears from a glittering Los Angeles party, and a woman searches for answers. An unforgettable literary feat, Exit Party is a breathtaking story of resilience in the face of cataclysmic change.
In The Art of Fighting, Priya Parker offers a paradigm-shifting exploration of how healthy conflict helps relationships, teams, and communities grow. Rejecting the idea that strong groups do not fight, she helps audiences rethink conflict as a skill, recognize their own conflict style, and engage in the conversations that matter most.
