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The Lavin Agency Speakers Bureau

A speakers bureau that represents the best original thinkers,
writers, and doers for speaking engagements.

Social Justice / Gender

Gender

Lavin’s gender keynote speakers work across all disciplines—STEM, film, journalism, business, law—breaking down the surprising and complicated ways that gender informs innovation, justice, art and more.

10 Gender
Speakers
Margaret Atwood | Two-time Booker Prize-Winning Author of over 50 Books, Including The Handmaid's Tale, and its Recordbreaking Sequel, The Testaments

Margaret Atwood

Two-time Booker Prize-Winning Author of over 50 Books, Including The Handmaid’s Tale and its Recordbreaking Sequel,The Testaments

A master of speculative fiction proves that literature can show us our future—if we look.

Raquel Willis

Award-Winning Black Transgender Activist | Author of The Risk It Takes to Bloom | Co-Founder of the Transgender Week of Visibility and Action

Outdated ideas of gender are holding us all back. When we abandon them and fight for Black transgender liberation, we all flourish.

Margot Lee Shetterly

Author of Hidden Figures: the #1 New York Times bestseller and hit film

A greater diversity of voices in science, in the STEM fields, is key to the future of American innovation.

Katy Hessel

Instant New York Times Bestselling Author of The Story of Art Without Men | 2021 Forbes 30 under 30 Europe | Guardian Columnist | Art Historian and Curator

The story of art has always excluded women. But we can write a new, more equitable story for the future of art, and beyond.

Sarah Kaplan | Director, Institute for Gender and the Economy at Rotman School of Management | Author of The 360° Corporation

Sarah Kaplan

Director, Institute for Gender and the Economy at Rotman School of Management | Author of The 360° Corporation

Corporate social responsibility is our generation’s biggest innovation challenge.

Ashton Applewhite

Anti-ageism activist | Author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism

Ageism is prejudice against our future selves. What if we were free of it?

Jamie Fiore Higgins

FORMER GOLDMAN SACHS MANAGING DIRECTOR | AUTHOR OF BULLY MARKET | LIFE COACH

You can change your company culture for the better—and create an inclusive, flourishing workplace where everyone is empowered to thrive.

Jessica Nordell

Author of The End of Bias | Award-winning science and culture journalist

Bias has a real cost for your organization. Fighting it is your greatest superpower.

Isabel Allende | Legendary Writer and Cultural Icon | Author of The House of the Spirits

Isabel Allende

Legendary writer and cultural icon | Author of The House of the Spirits

Write what should not be forgotten.

Kristin Neff

Author of Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself | Co-founder of the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion

Self-compassion isn’t just hearts and flowers—it’s an empirically proven practice.