KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

National Educator & Author; Former Executive Director of The Center for Culturally Responsive Teaching & Learning

Coach, Educator, Author & Entrepreneur; Founder & Chairman of the Coach Ken Carter Foundation; Inspiration for the Film "Coach Carter"

Rocket Scientist, Former Board of Education Member & Entrepreneur

Educational Equity Proponent & Dean of the USC Rossier School of Education

Doctor of Clinical Psychology, Pan-Afrikanist, Expert on Education & Mental Health of Afrikan Children; Founder of the "Unapologetically Afrikan", "Unapologetically Black" & "Afrikan Family First" Movements

Professor of Law, Critical Race Theory Scholar & Advocate; Executive Director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University

Senior Advisor at New America Think Tank & Lead on its US@250 Initiative; Columnist for The Washington Post; United States Navy Veteran; Author of "If We Are Brave: Essays From Black America"

Antiracism Educator, Podcaster & Founder of Roots of the Spirit

Civil Rights Leader & Broadcast Executive; Founder, President & CEO of the Trumpet Awards Foundation

Educator, Writer & Activist; First Woman of Color Elected President of the League of Women Voters

Former Kellner Family Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

First African American Woman POW in U.S. War History, Author of "I’m Still Standing" & Veteran Advocate

Educational Equity Speaker, Assistant Superintendent of HR, Adjunct Professor & Author of "How to Achieve Educational Equity" and "Transfers & Open Enrollment: The Denigration of Black School Communities"​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Public Historian, Equity Advocate & Award-Winning Author Known for "Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells"

Social Justice Activist, Civil Rights Trial Attorney & Restorative Justice Practitioner; Founding Director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth

Urban School Transformation Specialist & Author of "Creating Successful Urban Schools"; Regional Superintendent of Columbus City School

Author, Cultural Critic & James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University

Writer & Activist Amplifying Muslim American and Immigrant Narratives; Author of "America Made Me A Black Man,"

Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio & Author of “Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education”

Gen Z Attorney, Thought Leader & National Storyteller for a New Generation of Young Leaders