KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker; Known For TED Talk on the Intersection of Civil Rights & LGBT Rights

First Female & African-American News Anchor in Atlanta

Executive Director of The Center for Culturally Responsive Teaching & Learning

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

Founder & CEO at Goodr Co.

Writer, Researcher, Social Entrepreneur, Author of "The Diversity Gap: Where Good Intentions Meet True Cultural Change" & Host of "The Diversity Gap" Podcast

President and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights; Former Senior Vice President for Social Justice at The New School

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

Political Activist & Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party

Co-founder & Director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth

Award-Winning Black & Indigenous Historian; Associate Professor at University of Pittsburgh; Author of "I’ve Been Here All the While"

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

Highest Ranking African American Woman in the US Navy

Writer & Social Activist Known for Her Work on Issues of Race & Identity; Author of "So You Want to Talk About Race"

2019 National Teacher of the Year

Attorney & Activist Dubbed "The People's Lawyer;" Founder of Merritt Law Firm

Educator & Author of "The Book Whisperer" and "Reading in the Wild"

Presidential Professor at CUNY Graduate Center, BET News Correspondent, Human Rights Activist & Author

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