African-American Research Speakers

Culinary Historian & Author

Writer, Filmmaker & Black Studies Scholar; Founder of BYP100

Novelist, Writer, Scholar

Women's Health Advocate, Co-Founder & CEO of GirlTrek

One of the Nation’s Leading Innovators, Provocateurs, & Thought Leaders on African American Youth, Youth Activism, & Youth Development; PhD, Author & Professor

Equity Advocate, TED Speaker & Author

Social Justice Scholar & Author of "Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools"

Journalist, Professor, Author & Multi-Disciplinary Scholar Whose Work Challenges Depictions of African Americans in Popular Culture

Noted Author and 7th President of Dillard University

Doctor, Author & Social Justice Advocate

Senior Vice President of Programs & Partnerships at The California Endowment; Lecturer of Health Policy & Management at UC Berkeley

Co-Executive Director of The Highlander Research & Education Center; Activist

Scholar & Social Justice Advocate

Author, Speaker & Founder of African American Images

Design Director & Co-Founder of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces

Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania

Former President of the National Women's Studies Association; Founding Director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center at Spelman College

Former President & CEO of the NAACP; Civil Rights Attorney; Social Justice Activist; Ordained Minister; Professor at Harvard Kennedy School

Political News Correspondent (CNN)

Speaker, Historian, Author, Contributor, College Instructor, Expert on 21st Century Law Enforcement and Communities of Color