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Associate Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Multicultural Affairs and Acting Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion, Indiana University

First African American to serve as Wisconsin's Lieutenant Governor

President of Talladega College

Associate Professor, Psychology and Founder & Chief Equity Officer, National Training Institute on Race and Equity, Morehouse College

Minister of Children and Youth Services Minister Responsible for Anti-Racism Legislative Assembly of Ontario

Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora in the Faculty of Education at York University

Founder/Lead Designer,

InspireMath

Former Delegate to the
U.S. House of Representatives
from the U.S. Virgin Islands's at-large district

President, University of the Virgin Islands 

Clifford and Betty Allen Chair in Urban Leadership and USC Race and Equity Center Founder and Executive Director, USC Rossier School of Education

First African-American woman to become a major general in the United States Army Reserve

Senior Lecturer in Education Studies, Nottingham Institute of Education

Chief Executive Officer, 

Words Warriors LLC

Former Assistant Deputy Minister, Ontario Ministry of Education

Executive Editor for Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 

Inaugural Associate Athletics Director for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at the University of California, Berkeley

Professor Emeritus,

Boston College

Hoefs-Bascom Professor of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Professor, Pan-African Studies Department, University of Louisville

President, Institute for Responsible Citizenship / Former Trustee, University of North Carolina

Founding Director, Race and Public Policy Unit and the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies, Leeds University

Dean and Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Health Equity, Tulane University

Chartered psychologist and Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS)

Associate professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Learning, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

State Representative, Assembly Assistant Minority Leader - Wisconsin; Youngest African American to ever be elected into the state office

Chancellor of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Irish author and Media Producer

Director, Irish Network Against Racism

Former Inaugural Assistant Vice President/Vice Provost of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, Toronto Metropolitan University 

Director of the Health Disparities Institute and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut 

Founding Executive Director, National Center for Race Amity

Professor, Howard University, and Director of Education Innovation and Research, NAACP

Senior Fellow at Brookings Metro, a Scholar-in-Residence at American University, and a Professor of Practice of Economics at Washington University

Founder Member, Centre for Research in Race and Education, University of Birmingham

Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Psychiatry University of California, Irvine

Chief Catalyst, The Center for Strategic Diversity Leadership and Social Innovation

Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at College of Letters & Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

National President/CEO of the National Business League

Associate Professor of Public Policy in the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia

Assistant Professor of History and Graduate Coordinator, Millserville University

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Professor of Psychology and Director of the
Culture, Risk, and Resilience Lab, University of Houston

Professor of Sociology and Education Policy, Brown University

Associate Vice President and Dean of the Office of African-American Affairs, University of Virginia

Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Urban Education and Executive Director, Urban Education Collaborative at University of North Carolina at Charlotte

George Littlefield Professor of American History and Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Texas at Austin

Associate Professor at the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and Affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty and Collaborative Center of Health Equity, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Charles H. Spence, Sr. Centennial Professor in Education, University of Texas at Austin

Founder and Chief Education Officer, Beyond Measure Coaching and Consulting, LLC

Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology in the College of Education and Human Ecology, Ohio State University

Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and Director of the Strengths, Assets, and Resilience (StAR) Lab, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Motivational Speaker and Educator Specializing in Dropout Recovery and Trauma Mitigation

Director of the Centre for Disability Studies,University of the West Indies; Member and Past President of the Senate of Jamaica – where he was also their first Blind member; Special Rapporteur on Disability for the Caribbean Community 

Deputy Director for Strategy, Planning, & Management for Postsecondary Success, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation