SPEAKERS
2021 Speakers
2021 SPEAKERS COMING SOON!
CLINT SMITH
Keynote Speaker
Staff writer for The Atlantic​ Award-winning author of Counting Descent and the New York Times best-seller How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
PORSHA OLAYIWOLA
Keynote Speaker
Poet Laureate fellow with the American Academy of Poets, founder of the Roxbury Poet Festival and Individual World Poetry Slam Champion.
CONGRESSWOMAN
AYANNA PRESSLEY
Featured Speaker
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley is an advocate, a policy-maker, an activist, and a survivor, elected to represent Massachusetts’ 7th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives
Elise
DELA CRUZ-TALBERT
Researcher and Data Center Coordinator for the Children's Healthy Living Program
Jennifer
J. GAUTHIER
Senior Outreach Specialist in Menominee County/Nation
Tanya
NIXON-SILBERG
Founder and Director,
Little Uprisings
Tracy
BAXLEY
Educator and Creator of Social Justice Parenting™
Cordel
BILLUPS
Program Coordinator at Creative Reaction Lab
Cherie
CRAFT
Founding CEO and Executive Director at Smart from the Start, Inc., member on Maternal Mortality Review Committee and Maternal Child Health Council of DC
Iheoma
U. IRUKA
Research Professor of Public Policy and the Founding Director of the Equity Research Action Coalition at FPG Child Development Institute at UNC Chapel Hill
Melody
GOODMAN
Associate Dean for Research and Associate Professor of Biostatistics, in the School of Global Public Health at New York University
Leseliey
WELCH
Co-founder of Birth Detroit & Birth Center Equity, Lecturer at the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at the U of M former Deputy Director of Public Health for the City of Detroit
Stephanie
CRAWFORD
Founder of Propa City Outreach, Boston Public School Kindergarten teacher, Doula community organizer, trainer, advocate and consultant
Amy
HUHN
Children’s Librarian at the Brighton Branch Library
Indira
GUZMAN
Co-Founder and Director
Community Language Cooperative
Melissa
GIRAUD
Co-Founder at EmbraceRace
Shari
DAVIS
Co-Executive Director at Participatory Budgeting Project
Andrew
GRANT-DAVIS
Co-Founder at EmbraceRace
Karen
WASHINGTON
Co-owner/Farmer at Rise & Root Farm, Co-Founder at Black Urban Growers
Lee Porcha
MOORE
Senior Trainer at Flourish Agenda, College Instructor and Licensed Social Worke
Smith
LAMONTE
Patient Navigator at Boston Medical Center, Board Member of Haitian American United, Inc.
Hilary
SEDVOVIC
Learning & Education Director at Creative Reaction Lab
Erika
RODRIGUEZ
Executive Director at The Chica Project, Youth Worker and Community Organizer
Nishira
BARIL
Founder of Boston’s Neighborhood Birth Center
Bianca
VAZQUEZ
Program Director at the Beloved Community Incubator (BCI), Community Organizer
Jillian
K. WALN
Community Engagement Coordinator for REDCO, Co-Owner of Zaniya Pro Clean, and radio show host
Jamoul
CELEY
Founder of Carbonado Coaching, Senior Program Manager at INROADS
Jennifer
ARWADE
Co-Executive Director, Communities United / Voices of Youth in Chicago Education (VOYCE)
Marsha
JEAN-CHARLES
Alumna and Director of Organizing of The Brotherhood Sister Sol, former Liberation Program Lead Organizer, Lead Coordinator, Co-Facilitator, and youth organizer; former lecturer at CUNY City College and Columbia University
Megan
MACARAEG
Organizing Director at the Beloved Community Incubator (BCI), Organizer with Tenants and Workers United in 1999 successful campaign for Living Wages in the City of Alexandria, Member of New Virginia Majority
Meredith
KENNEDY
Owner of Native North Tours and Storytelling LLC, Director of Miigwech Inc., and part of the Odawa Economic Affairs Holding Corporation
Meyiya
COLEMAN
Healing through Justice Facilitator / Youth Organizer, Communities United and Voices of Youth in Chicago Education (VOYCE)
Raul
BOTELLO
Co-Executive Director, Communities United / Voices of Youth in Chicago Education (VOYCE)
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