Dr. Shante Willams
Alvin Atkinson

Director of the Initiative for Just & Sustainable Communities, and Executive Director of the Center for Community Safety, Winston-Salem State University

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Dereca Blackmon
Dereca Blackmon

Inclusion Innovator, activist, and inspirational speaker

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Denisha Coco Blossom Bland
Denisha “Coco Blossom” Bland

College student, poet, teaching artist, and Sacramento Area Youth Speaks Coordinator

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Dr. Joseph Bohling
Dr. Joseph Bohling

Author and Professor of European Political and Economic History, Portland State University

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Jim Wolfston
Jason Bosch

Director of Student Engagement and Scholarships, College of Engineering, Wichita State University

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Preston Cooper
Preston Cooper

Higher Education Analyst and regular contributor to "Forbes"

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Dr. Roger L. Geiger
Dr. Roger L. Geiger

Author and Distinguished Professor of Higher Education, Penn State

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Dr. Shante Willams
Dr. Charity Brown Griffin

Assistant Professor of Psychological Sciences, Winston-Salem State University

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Jesse Hagopian
Jesse Hagopian

Educator, activist, author, and Editor of “Rethinking Schools” magazine

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Patrice Hill
Patrice Hill

Community-based educator, poet, and Program Coordinator of Sacramento Area Youth Speaks

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Dr. David A. Horowitz
Dr. David A. Horowitz

Author and Professor of US cultural and political history with an emphasis on populism, Portland State University

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Joel Kotkin
Joel Kotkin

Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University, Executive Director of the Houston-based Center for Opportunity Urbanism, Senior Advisor to the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, author, columnist for Digital First Media, and regular contributor to City Journal, the Daily Beast, and Real Clear Politics.

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Jim Wolfston
Dennis Livesay

Dean, College of Engineering, Wichita State University

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Dr. Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi
Dr. Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi

Professor of Economics, Winston Salem State University, and former Chief Economist for the City of San Francisco

Dr. Richard Muma
Dr. Richard Muma

Provost and Professor, Wichita State University

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Jim Wolfston
Stephanie Nance

Student Success Coach, College of Engineering, Wichita State University

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Jim Wolfston
Dr. Jeffrey Orgera

Executive Vice President and Provost, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Kevin Powell
Kevin Powell

Journalist, author, and activist

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Dr. Craig Richardson
Dr. Craig Richardson

Distinguished Professor of Economics, and Director for the Center for the Study of Economic Mobility, Winston Salem State

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Dr. Elwood Robinson
Dr. Elwood Robinson

Chancellor of Winston Salem State University

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Jim Wolfston
Kim Sandlin

Director of Student Success, Wichita State University

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Asani Shakur
Asani Shakur

Motivational speaker, published-writer, poet, educator, and author

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Dr. Ganesh Sitaraman
Dr. Ganesh Sitaraman

Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University, author, and Policy Advisor to Senator Elizabeth Warren, Distinguished

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Dr. Vajra Watson
Dr. Vajra Watson

Director of the Office of Research for Policy and Equity, UC Davis, Founder of Sacramento Area Youth Speaks

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Dr. Shante Willams
Dr. Shante Willams

Founder of RW Capital Partners and Venture Capitalist

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Jim Wolfston
Jim Wolfston

President of CollegeNET, Inc., and creator of the Social Mobility Index

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