Guest Speakers
![Gregory Maguire](https://charloz.charlotte.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/899/2023/12/Maguire-2-300x300.jpg)
Author of Wicked Series
![James Ortiz](https://charloz.charlotte.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/899/2023/12/Ortiz-300x300.jpg)
Obie Award Winner for his show, The Woodsman
![Nate Barlow](https://charloz.charlotte.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/899/2023/12/Barlow-300x300.jpg)
Restoring His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz
![Angelica Shirley Carpenter](https://charloz.charlotte.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/899/2023/12/Carpenter-300x300.jpg)
Author of L. Frank Baum and Matilda Gage Biographies
![Amy Chu](https://charloz.charlotte.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/899/2023/12/Chu-300x300.jpg)
Author of Sea Sirens/Sky Island
![Tom H. John](https://charloz.charlotte.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/899/2023/12/Screenshot-2023-12-13-123911-300x300.png)
The Wiz Set Designer
![Adam N. Justice](https://charloz.charlotte.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/899/2023/12/Justice-300x300.jpg)
Director of Galleries for the College of Arts + Architecture
![Janet K. Lee](https://charloz.charlotte.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/899/2023/12/Lee-300x300.jpg)
Illustrator of Sea Sirens/Sky Island
![Gita Dorothy Morena](https://charloz.charlotte.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/899/2023/12/Morena-300x300.png)
Great-granddaughter of L. Frank Baum
![Danielle Paige](https://charloz.charlotte.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/899/2023/12/Paige-300x300.jpg)
Author of Dorothy Must Die Series
![Brady Schwind](https://charloz.charlotte.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/899/2023/12/Brady-Schwind-300x300.jpg)
Founder of Lost Art of Oz
![Eric Shanower](https://charloz.charlotte.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/899/2023/12/Shanower-300x300.jpg)
Oz Author/Illustrator