APB’s observation month speakers illuminate the issues and offer personal insight into specific causes, influential leaders, or impactful historical events. Our inspiring speakers include Michael Eric Dyson, an academic, public intellectual, and best-selling author, Kelly Corrigan, a cancer survivor, caretaker, and author of the runaway bestseller The Middle Place, Luis Alberto Urrea, Latino Literature Hall of Fame member and author of The Devil's Highway, and Sheryl WuDunn, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and co-author of Half The Sky - a compelling and uplifting book that focuses on the trials and triumphs of women struggling around the world for opportunity and equality.

Recognition & Observance Programs: Black History Month

Michael Eric DysonRequest Speaker's Availability & Fee
Scholar / Best-Selling Author

Named by Essence magazine as one of the 50 most inspiring African Americans, Dyson is one of the nation's most renowned public intellectuals, revitalizing the role with the fervor of an ordained Baptist minister. Called "a street fighter in a suit and tie," he takes on the toughest and most controversial issues of the day, including race, politics, and pop culture with his fearless and fiery rhetoric.

Recognition & Observance Programs: Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Kelly Corrigan Request Speaker's Availability & Fee
Author / Breast Cancer Survivor

With wrenching honesty, poignancy, and a dose of humor, Corrigan explores "the middle place – that sliver of time when parenthood and childhood overlap before a parent's illness hurls you into full-fledged adulthood and the realization of your parents' mortality as well as your own."

Recognition & Observance Programs: Hispanic Heritage Month

Luis Alberto UrreaRequest Speaker's Availability & Fee
Author

An award-winning poet and essayist, Urrea authored the epic novel The Hummingbird’s Daughter, as well as the The Devil’s Highway, a best-selling nonfiction account of Mexican immigrants crossing over the US border. His latest book, Into the Beautiful North, is lauded for having Urrea’s characteristic eye for detail, powerful narrative, and vivid characters.

Recognition & Observance Programs: Women's History Month

Sheryl WuDunnRequest Speaker's Availability & Fee
Pulitzer-Prize Winning Journalist

As a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, investment banker and professional speaker, Sheryl WuDunn offers a unique perspective on current economic, political and social issues such as women's rights. As co-author of the New York Times bestseller, Half the Sky, WuDunn calls attention to the trials and triumphs of women struggling around the world for opportunity and equality. In her presentations, she offers compelling evidence that investing in women’s health and welfare guarantees a better future for all humanity.