2026 Keynote Speaker

WILSON CRUZ

Award-winning Actor, Producer, Activist, “Actorvist,” and Humanitarian. Cruz recently starred as Dr. Hugh Culber on the Award-winning Paramount+ series Star Trek: Discovery and the Netflix film MOTHER OF THE BRIDE, starring Benjamin Bratt and Brooke Shields. He appeared on the Netflix series Thirteen Reasons Why, in Hulu’s 2020 GLAAD Award- Winning original animated kids’ series The Bravest Knight, and played Rickie Vasquez on My So Called Life . He is also the Executive Producer of the critically acclaimed docuseries called Visible: Out on Television, airing on Apple TV+ that investigates the importance of TV as an intimate medium that has shaped the American conscience, and how the LGBTQ movement has shaped television. He received GLAAD’s Vito Russo Award in 2022. Wilson was recently named Board Chair of GLSEN, the nation’s largest organization championing LGBTQ+ issues in K-12 education.