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

Award-Winning Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author; Civil Rights Activist; Cancer Survivor; Subject of the Emmy Award-Winning Documentary "Going to Mars"

Award-Winning Social Entrepreneur, Environmental Advocate, Founder & CEO of Sustainable Waste Management Company Goodr

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

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

Executive Director of The Center for Culturally Responsive Teaching & Learning

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

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

Highest Ranking African American Woman in the US Navy

Veteran, Former POW, Veteran Advocate

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

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

Restorative Justice Advocate, Civil Rights Attorney, Educator

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

Diversity and Inclusion Speaker, Founder & CEO of Harden Consulting Group, LLC, & Author of The Allyship Challenge™

Political Activist & Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party

Civil Court Judge, Only African American Woman Jurist & Acting Justice of the New York State Supreme Court

Social Justice, Equity & Racism Speaker and Consultant; Member of the "Little Rock Nine"