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Dr. Jonathan P. Higgins (DoctorJonPaul) is a writer, speaker and educator who is actively working to bridge higher education with pop culture and media. His writing has been featured in Blavity, The Root, Pride, INTO, Wear Your Voice, SYFY, and them. When not speaking at universities across the country, he posts weekly YouTube videos on topics related to the LGBTQ+ community, specifically QTPoC. His hugely popular TEDx talk titled “Unlearning Fear, Embracing Personal Power” has been cited across diverse individual and collective social justice work and highlighted on influential platforms like ATTN: and Vox, to name just a few. He's currently working on his first book examining the experiences of queer men of color and the importance of healing. More at www.DoctorJonPaul.com!
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Kevin Allred is an educator, writer, and speaker who believes knowledge should be accessible to everyone—not just gatekeepers of the Ivory Tower—and that education should also always be fun. In 2010, he created the acclaimed “Politicizing Beyoncé” course at Rutgers University and has shared the curriculum at universities, arts festivals, government agencies, and even bars and clubs around the world as a highly sought-after speaker. He has written for Salon, Quartz, Huffington Post, The Establishment, The Feminist Wire, The Conversation and The Washington Post and and was a featured contributor to "So POPular w/ Janet Mock" on MSNBC. His work has been featured on MTV, VH1, BET, Entertainment Weekly, and countless other entertainment and news outlets. More at www.kevin-allred.com!
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