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2021 Speakers and Honorees
Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman
United States House of Representatives
Linda Darling-Hammond
President of the Learning Policy Institute
Attorney General Keith Ellison
Attorney General of Minnesota
Myron Orfield
Professor of Civil Rights Law & Director of the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity, University of Minnesota Law School
John C. Brittain
Olie W. Rauh Professor of Law, UDC David A. Clarke School of Law
Rev. Willie Francois
Pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church, Pleasantville, NJ Coalition Against Racial Exclusion NJ-CARE, BOA
Mayor Sean Spiller
President, New Jersey Education Association, Mayor of Montclair
Michelle Burris
Senior Policy Associate, The Century Foundation
Paul Jargowsky
Director, Center for Urban Research and Urban Education at Rutgers University
Erika K. Wilson
Professor of Law, Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Chair in Public Policy at the University of North Carolina's School of Law
Jonathan Kozol
Writer, educator, and activist
Assemblywoman Shavonda E. Sumter
New Jersey Legislative Black Caucus Chair
Marie Blistan
Immediate Past President New Jersey Education Association
Leslie Wilson
Associate Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Montclaire State University
Charles E. Menifield, PhD
Dean of the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University–Newark
Rev. Kenneth Darryl Ray Clayton
Pastor of St. Luke Baptist Church of Paterson, NJ and President of the Paterson NAACP
Genevieve Siegel-Hawley
Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia
Rev. Karen Hernandez-Granzen
Pastor, Westminster Presbyterian Church
Dr. Jianping Wang
President, Mercer County Community College in New Jersey