--President Barack Obama during his address at SXSW Interactive.
Credit: Rich Fury/Invision/AP
Credit: Rich Fury/Invision/AP
--Actress Kerry Washington, speaking during the panel “New Rules of Social Stardom.”
--filmmaker J.J. Abrams.
-- Christina Lewis Halpern, founder of All Star Code, a program that prepares black and Latino boys to enter and advance in the tech sector.
--Model Ashley Graham, speaking during the panel “Acceptance Revolution: Fashion’s New Body.”
--Henry Lewis Gates, Harvard professor and filmmaker, during the “Race in America” panel
--Tracy Chou, software engineer at Pinterest, during the panel “Tech Diversity: Why We’re Still Talking About It.”
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Credit: Getty Images
-- Ibtihaj Muhammad, fencer on the U.S. Olympic team and a Muslim-American, after a SXSW volunteer asked her to remove her hijab, a traditional covering for the hair and neck that is worn by Muslim women.
--U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold, R- Corpus Christi, during a panel on security issues surrounding the Internet of Things.
-- Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank
