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2020 Summit for Civil Rights Speakers

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Attorney General Keith Ellison

Attorney General of Minnesota

Congressman James E. Clyburn

Majority Whip, United States House of Representatives

Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge

United States House of Representatives

Congressman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott

United States House of Representatives

Congresswoman Gwen Moore

United States House of Representatives

Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman

United States House of Representatives

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University

Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D.

President emerita of Spelman College

Derrick Johnson

President and CEO, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Dr. Rajiv J. Shah

President of the Rockefeller Foundation

Na’ilah Suad Nasir

President of the Spencer Foundation

Darren Walker

President, the Ford Foundation

Richard L. Trumka

President of the AFL-CIO

Fred Blackwell

CEO of the San Francisco Foundation

john a. powell

Professor of Law Professor of African American Studies and Ethnic Studies Robert D. Haas Chancellor's Chair in Equity and Inclusion Director, Othering & Belonging Institute

Algernon Austin

Senior Researcher with The Thurgood Marshall Institute at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Eric Foner

DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History, Columbia University

Mark Dimondstein

President, American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO

Tiffani Torres

Student, Pace High School, Brooklyn and leader of Teens Take Charge

Elizabeth Powell

Secretary-Treasurer, American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO

Sheryll Cashin

Professor of Law, Civil Rights and Social Justice at the Georgetown University Law Center

Julian Vasquez Heilig

Dean of the University of Kentucky College of Education

Bishop Reginald T. Jackson

Presiding Prelate-Sixth Episcopal District, AME Church

Richard Rothstein

Author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Stella Flores

Associate Dean and Associate Professor at New York University

Michelle Burris

Senior Policy Associate, The Century Foundation

Carmen Berkley

Political strategist, entrepreneur, radio host, and DJ

Claude Cummings Jr.

Vice President, Communications Workers of America, District 6

Rev. James Woodall

State President of the Georgia NAACP

Yolanda N. Melville

Chair, NAACP NEXTGEN Alumni

Stefan Lallinger

Fellow and Director of TCF’s Bridges Collaborative, The Century Foundation

Rev. Willie Francois

Senior Pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church of Pleasantville, New Jersey, President of the Black Church Center for Justice and Equality

Prentiss Dantzler

Assistant Professor in the Urban Studies Institute, Georgia State University

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