2023 Sponsors

2023 Summit Sponsors

Summit for Civil Rights September 28-29, 2023

Fred Redmond

Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO and Recipient of the 2023 James E. Clyburn ``Vaults of Opportunity” Award

Brenda Lawrence

Former Congresswoman and recipient of Summit for Civil Rights Shirley Chisholm Breakthrough Leader Award

Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr.

Senior Pastor Emeritus, Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland, OH

Rev. Frederick D. Haynes III

President and CEO of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition

Pierrette “Petee” Talley

Director, The Ohio Unity Coalition, and the Political Director of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionist (CBTU)

United States Congressman Donald Norcross

Recipient of the 2023 Steve LaTourette Unified America Award

U.S. Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick

Recipient of the 2023 Steve LaTourette Unified America Award

Regina Anderson

Executive Director, Food Recovery Network

Rev. Willie Francois

Pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church, Pleasantville, NJ Coalition Against Racial Exclusion NJ-CARE, BOA

Roland V. Anglin

Dean of the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University

Annette Blackwell

Mayor of Maple Heights

John C. Brittain

Olie W. Rauh Professor of Law, UDC David A. Clarke School of Law

Rev. Evan Regis “Reegie” Bunch

Faith Community United

Michelle Burris

Senior Policy Associate, The Century Foundation

Rev. Dr. Keith W. Byrd, Sr.

National First Vice-Presiden, Progressive National Baptist Convention

Scott DiMauro

President, Ohio Education Association

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF GAMALIEL FOUNDATION

Ana Garcia-Ashley

James Gee

Former Chief of Staff, the Honorable Bonnie Watson Coleman

Debbie Goettel

Hennepin County Commissioner

Lloyd D. Henderson, Esq.

President, Camden County East NAACP

Mike Kruglik

Mike Kruglik, Board President of Building One America

Linda Hinton

District 4 Vice President, Communications Workers of America Union (CWA)

Tiffany Miller

Director of Federal Policy for the Learning Policy Institute

Abigail Moncrieff

Professor of Constitutional Law at the Cleveland State University College of Law

Reginald C. Oh

Professor of Constitutional Law at the Cleveland State University College of Law

Myron Orfield

Professor of Civil Rights Law & Director of the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity, University of Minnesota Law School

Rev. Raimon Prince

New Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church

Josiah Quarles

Director of Organizing and Advocacy, Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless

Dale Robinson Anglin

Vice President, Grantmaking & Community Impact, the Cleveland Foundation

David Rusk

Founding President, Building One America

Davida Russell

Councilwoman and President of the Northeast Ohio District of the Ohio Association of Public-School Employees OAPSE/AFSCME Local 4/AFL-CIO)

Judge Michael John Ryan

Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals

Mungu Sanchez

Deputy Political Director Keystone Mountain Lakes Regional Council of Carpenters

Theodore M. Shaw

Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Civil Rights at the University of North Carolina School of Law at Chapel Hill

Dr. Keith A. Troy

Pastor, New Salem Baptist Church

Deepa Vedavyas

Program Manager, Neighborhoods and Environment at The Cleveland Foundation

KaRon Waites Jr.

Financial Secretary for UAW Local 1050, Vice President, Ohio APRI

André Washington

President, A. Philip Randolph Institute, Ohio