Alvin Atkinson
Director of the Initiative for Just & Sustainable Communities, and Executive Director of the Center for Community Safety, Winston-Salem State University
Dereca Blackmon
Inclusion Innovator, activist, and inspirational speaker
Director of the Initiative for Just & Sustainable Communities, and Executive Director of the Center for Community Safety, Winston-Salem State University
Inclusion Innovator, activist, and inspirational speaker
College student, poet, teaching artist, and Sacramento Area Youth Speaks Coordinator
Author and Professor of European Political and Economic History, Portland State University
Director of Student Engagement and Scholarships, College of Engineering, Wichita State University
Higher Education Analyst and regular contributor to "Forbes"
Author and Distinguished Professor of Higher Education, Penn State
Assistant Professor of Psychological Sciences, Winston-Salem State University
Educator, activist, author, and Editor of “Rethinking Schools” magazine
Community-based educator, poet, and Program Coordinator of Sacramento Area Youth Speaks
Author and Professor of US cultural and political history with an emphasis on populism, Portland State University
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.
Dean, College of Engineering, Wichita State University
Professor of Economics, Winston Salem State University, and former Chief Economist for the City of San Francisco
Provost and Professor, Wichita State University
Student Success Coach, College of Engineering, Wichita State University
Executive Vice President and Provost, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Journalist, author, and activist
Distinguished Professor of Economics, and Director for the Center for the Study of Economic Mobility, Winston Salem State
Chancellor of Winston Salem State University
Director of Student Success, Wichita State University
Motivational speaker, published-writer, poet, educator, and author
Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University, author, and Policy Advisor to Senator Elizabeth Warren, Distinguished
Director of the Office of Research for Policy and Equity, UC Davis, Founder of Sacramento Area Youth Speaks
Founder of RW Capital Partners and Venture Capitalist
President of CollegeNET, Inc., and creator of the Social Mobility Index