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

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

Scholar & Social Justice Advocate

Culinary Historian & Author of "Rice: A Savor the South Cookbook"

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

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

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

2019 National Teacher of the Year

International Leader in Education Technology & Author of NYT Bestseller "Who Owns the Learning?", Founder of November Learning

Educator, Businessman & Author

President & CEO of the Opportunity Institute, Former U.S. Presidential Advisor to Bill Clinton, Co-Founder of Nueva Vista Group

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

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

Educationalist, Author, Eminent Scholar & Former Executive Director of the Center for Urban Educational Excellence at Florida International University

Expert on Race Relations; Host, "PBS History Detectives"; Professor of Race Relations at the University of Pennsylvania,