KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Co-founder & Director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth

Executive Director of The Center for Culturally Responsive Teaching & Learning

Founder & CEO of Youth Equity Platform Chicago Beyond; Star of CNN's Documentary Series "Chicagoland"

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

Head of Youth Engagement & Skills for the Global Business Coalition for Education

Public School Educator & TED Speaker; Consultant on Race, Education, Gender and Equity

Scholar & Social Justice Advocate

Best-Selling Author, Higher Education Leadership & Race Relations Expert, President Emerita of Spelman College

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

Scholar, Author, Professor, Civil Rights Historian & Director of The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute

Co-Founder & Executive Director of UrbEd Inc., Advocate for Public Education & Frederick Douglass Distinguished Scholar

Motivational Speaker on DEI, Workplace Wellness, Leadership & Improving Education; Youth Empowerment, Family Enhancement, Anti-Bullying & Social Justice Activist; Known as "Mr. I'm Possible"

Culinary Historian & Author of "Rice: a Savor the South cookbook" (Savor the South Cookbooks)

Social Psychologist & Stereotype Expert

Senior Editor at Fortune Magazine & "RaceAhead" Columnist

2019 National Teacher of the Year

Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and Senior Fellow (Emeritus) at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Founder & President of the W. Haywood Burns Institute

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

Educator, Businessman & Author