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Panelists
Aaron Ford
Nevada Attorney General
Abigail Thomas
Climate Justice Advocate
Akiba Abaka
Interim Executive Director, National Center of Afro-American Artists (NCAAA)
Allen Morris
Director of Policy, National LGBTQ Task Force
Amos Jackson III
Founder and Principal, Third Way Strategies & Consulting
Angela Rye
Chief Executive Officer at A. Rye Inc
Atima Omara
Founder & Chief Strategist, Omara Strategy Group
A’Shanti Gholar
President & CEO, Emerge
Bisola Ojikutu
Commissioner of Public Health, City of Boston
Bobby Nweke
Communication Strategist & Speaker Coach; Founder, Ready Consulting LLC
Charles Blow
Langston Hughes Fellow at Harvard University, Former Op-ed Columnist at the New York Time
Cliff Albright
Co-Founder and Executive Director, Black Voters Matter
Cornell Brooks
Professor at the Harvard Kennedy Schoo; Former President and CEO of the NAACP
Courtney Cole
Anchor/Reporter, WBZ-TV Boston
Darrick Hamilton
Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy and a University Professor, The New School for Social Research
Dr. Andre Perry
Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Community Uplift, Brookings Institution
Professor of Practice of Economics, Washington University of St. Louis
Dr. Aysha Upchurch
The Dancing Diplomat
Dr. Denisha Jones
Executive Director, Defending the Early Years
Founder and CEO, D. Jones Consultant
Dr. Jalicia Jolly
Assistant Professor in American Studies and Black Studies, Amherst College
Dr. Jeannette Callahan
Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School / General Pediatrician at Cambridge Health Alliance
Dr. Maame Adobea Amoyaw
Founder and Principal Cultural Strategist, Silver Link Strategies
Dr. Tinkhani White
Director of Systems Transformation, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Eddie Rupia
Campaign Manager/Senior Advisor
Imani Rupert-Gordon
President/Executive Director, National Center for LGBTQ Rights (NCLR)
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Jessica Fulton
Economist
Joshua Doss
Pollster & Political Consultant
Kama Pierce
Chief Program Officer, National Center for Civil and Human Rights
Kirsten Allen
Communications & Political Strategist
Leonardo Williams
Mayor of Durham, North Carolina
Liz Miranda
State Senator, Massachusetts
Miniard Culpepper
Councilor, Boston City Council
Monica Gabrielle Tibbits-Nutt
Former Advisor MassDOT
Quentin James
Founder & President, Collective PAC
Randall Kennedy
Michael R. Klein Professor of Law, Harvard University
Ruthzee Louijeune
Councilor, Boston City Council
Sarah Lewis
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University / Founder of Vision & Justice
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Secretary Anthony Foxx
Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation
Tishaura Jones
Mayor of St. Louis, Missouri
Travis Wharton
Wendy D. Puriefoy Cross-Sector Leadership Fellow at EdRedesign and a Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed.L.D.) candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Tristan Thomas
Director of policy, Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE)
Wawa Gatheru
Founder & Executive Director of Black Girl Environmentalists
Yoruba Richen
Founding Director of the Documentary Program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY
Honorable Hellen Chabunya
Vice-President of the United Transformation Movement
