Alondra Nelson The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome
President, Social Science Research Council
Harold F. Linder Chair and Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
Author, The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome: finalist for Hurston-Wright Foundation Award for Nonfiction; Wall Street Journal favorite book.
Honorable Eric Holder Defending Democracy: A Conversation with Eric H. Holder, Jr., 82nd Attorney General of the United States (2009-2015)
82nd Attorney General of the United States under Obama Administration
First African-American to be Attorney General of the United States
Chair, National Democratic Redistricting Committee
Ruth Simmons Civil Society’s Debt to Higher Education
President, Prairie View A&M University in Praire View, Texas
President (former), Brown University
First African-American named president of Ivy League University
Established Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice
Emmanuel Akyeampong African and African American Relations, c. 1960 to Recent Times: Transformations in Global Blackness
Faculty Director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies
Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.
Fellow: Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences
President: African Public Broadcasting Foundation
Khalil Gibran Muhammad The Role of Antiracist Research in the Academy and Beyond
Professor, History, Race and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Suzanne Young Murray Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies.
Director (former), Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Awards: Fortune Society’s Game Changer Award, Ebony Power 100, Root 100 of Black Influencers
Kimberly Johnson How Far Do You Have To Go For Justice? Acting beyond the vote.
Author, best-selling novel This Is My America
University of Oregon Assistant Vice Provost for Advising
Director for the University of Oregon Center for Multicultural Academic Excellence.
Lia Epperson UO Law School Derrick Bell Speaker Series
Professor of Law and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, American University Washington College of Law.
Expertise: civil rights, constitutional law, and education policy.
Freeman A. Hrabowski, III The Empowered University: Shared Leadership, Culture Change, and Academic Success
President, University of Maryland
Chair, President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans under President Obama
Chairperson, National Academies’ committee and report, Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America’s Science and Technology Talent at the CrossroadsTED talk, Four Pillars of College Success in Science.
