11 writers, activists, and thinkers to follow on Twitter and Instagram so you can diversify your feeds and expand your worldview

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian novelist and activist. She gave a highly viewed TED talk regarding the importance of seeking out more than "a single story" and pursuing a diversified worldview in 2009.

She has since given another influential TED talk called "We Should All Be Feminists," which was sampled in a Beyonce song. Adichie has written six critically acclaimed books, including "Americanah" which was on one of President Barack Obama's reading lists.

Her literature explores themes including race, the immigrant experience, feminism, and culture at large. She uses her Instagram to post videos about her writing and current happenings to more than 500,000 followers.

Ibram X. Kendi, America's leading racism scholar, wrote a 2019 book called "How to be an Anti-Racist." In it, he wrote: "The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it — and then dismantle it."

He is the founding director of American University's anti-racist research center and will be opening a similar center at Boston University. He is active on Twitter with over 172,000 followers.

Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai is a 22-year-old advocate for girls' education and women's equality. She was shot by a member of the Taliban at age 14 for defying a ban against women going to school. Since then, she has authored two bestselling books. She is currently studying at Oxford.

She is most active on Twitter, where she has 1.6 million followers.

David Frum is a Canadian-American senior editor at the Atlantic. He is best known for coining George W. Bush's "axis of evil" phrase as a speechwriter and later becoming a Republican political commentator.

Frum wrote a memoir about his time with the Bush administration and a 2018 book about the Trump presidency — both of which are New York Times bestsellers. He released another book this year titled "Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy." He has nearly 900,000 followers on Twitter.

Emma Gonzalez is a survivor of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. She helped found March for Our Lives, an organization against gun violence.

She tweets about a number of social justice causes to 1.5 million followers on Twitter.

Michigan Rep. Justin Amash has been a high-profile critic of Donald Trump. He left the Republican party last year and wrote a thought-provoking op-ed in the Washington Post regarding the decision. He recently announced that he would not seek the Libertarian presidential nomination, after stating he wanted to represent millions of Americans who do not see themselves well-represented by either major party. He has over 450,000 followers on Twitter.

Zeynep Tufekci is a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. Originally from Turkey, Tufekci is a former computer programmer with expertise in the social impacts of technology and surveillance. She regularly contributes to the Atlantic, the New York Times, and Wired. She wrote a book titled "Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest."

Tufekci frequently discusses identity, society, protests, and technology on her Twitter account. She has over 340,000 followers.

Shea Serrano, a writer at The Ringer, is known for being an expert on movies and basketball — he's written New York Times bestsellers on both topics.

Serrano uses his Twitter to amplify Latinx voices and frequently criticizes the Trump presidency.

He also uses his Twitter account to identify followers in need — he liberally donates to a number of causes and individuals, and tweets about it, starting a positive chain reaction within his community of over 380,000 followers.