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2021 September 24 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
Senator Joe Cryan
New Jersey State Senate
Rev. Karen Hernandez-Granzen
Pastor, Westminster Presbyterian Church
Dr. Jianping Wang
President, Mercer County Community College in New Jersey
Community and Legislative Forum on School Segregation in New Jersey
November 21, 2019 - 6:30 to 8:00 PM
Mount Zion Baptist Church in Pleasantville, NJ
Join with education, civil rights, labor, faith and local elected leaders on November 21, 2019 to discuss the pressing issue of school segregation in New Jersey. You can register to confirm your attendance here.
The symposium, organized by Building One New Jersey and held at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Pleasantville, will grapple with the serious problem and debilitating consequences of New Jersey's racially segregated schools.
And it will put forward a community and legislative response aimed at reducing segregation, strengthening communities and improving education for all students.
It will start at 6:30 PM and end at 8:00 PM at the Mount Zion Baptist Church, 353 S New Rd, Pleasantville, NJ 08232
The convening will include experts, civil rights lawyers and historians and well as educators, parents, local leaders and state policy makers.
Speakers include:
John C. Brittain
Olie W. Rauh Professor of Law, UDC David A. Clarke School of Law
Ashley Bennett
Atlantic County Freeholder
Rev. Willie Francois
Pastor, Mount Zion Baptist Church, Pleasantville, NJ
Yolanda Melville, Esquire
President of the NAACP Next Generation (“NextGen”) Alumni Leadership Council
Frank Santo
Councilman, Galloway Township, NJ
Phil D. Murphy (invited)
Governor of New Jersey
School Integration in New Jersey A Community and Legislative Response
Letter to Education Commissioner Repollet
Letter to Senate President Sweeney
Draft framework for a Remedy as presented to Governor Murphy
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