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Summit for Civil Rights May 8-9, 2025 (Partial List of Speakers and Honorees)

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Claude Cummings Jr.

President, Communications Workers of America

Recipient of the 2025 James E. Clyburn "Vaults of Opportunity” Award

Mayor-Elect Barbara Lee

Mayor-Elect of Oakland, CA and former Member of Congress

2025 Shirley Chisholm Breakthrough Leader

Rev. Dr. Timothy Adkins-Jones

Pastor of the historic Bethany Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey

Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Professor of African American Studies and Public Affairs at Princeton University

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University

Rev. Willie Francois

Pastor of Fountain Baptist Church, NJ Coalition Against Racial Exclusion NJ-CARE, BOA

Kimberly M. Mutcherson

Dean and Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School in Camden

Michael A. Walrond Jr.

Senior Pastor of First Corinthian Baptist Church (FCBC) in Harlem

The Honorable Mayor Ras J. Baraka
Mayor of Newark, NJ

Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman

United States House of Representatives

Most Reverend Manuel A. Cruz, D.D.

Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Newark

Rev. Stephen A. Green

Senior Pastor of Greater Allen AME Cathedral of New York and Chair of Faith for Black Lives

Rev Maria Crompton

Senior Pastor of Elmwood United Presbyterian Church in East Orange, NJ

Anthony Abrantes

Assistant Executive Secretary-Treasurer for the Eastern Atlantic State Regional Council of Carpenters

Brenda Lawrence

Former Member of the United States Congress and former Mayor of Southfield, Michigan

Rev. Dr. Semaj Y. Vanzant, Sr.

President, General Baptist Convention of NJ

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

Rev. Dr. Edward Harper

Pastor, Macedonia Baptist Church, Lakehurst

Cyndie Williams

Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters

Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5)

United States House of Representatives

Debbie Goettel

Hennepin County Commissioner

Rev. Jerry M. Carter, Jr.

Pastor, Calvary Baptist Church of Morristown

Regina Anderson

Executive Director, Food Recovery Network

The Reverend Cassius L. Rudolph

Saints' Memorial Community Church

John C. Brittain

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

Pastor Eric Wallace

Pastor at Mount Olive Baptist Church, Plainfield, NJ

Michelle Burris

Senior Policy Associate, The Century Foundation

Rev. Dr. Forrest M. Pritchett

Director, Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership Program Senior Adviser to Provost on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Seton Hall

Antoinette Miles

State Director for the New Jersey Working Families Party

James Gee

Former Chief of Staff, the Honorable Bonnie Watson Coleman

Stephanie Lawson-Muhammad

Fountain Baptist Church and SOMA Action

Cyndie Williams

Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters

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

Barbara Ingram-Edmonds

Director of Strategic Initiatives at District Council 37, AFSCME, AFL-CIO

Rev. Dr. Jonnel Green

Senior Pastor of Bethesda Baptist Church of Jersey City

Congresswoman LaMonica McIver

United States House of Representatives

Leslie Wilson

Associate Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Montclair State University

Stephen M. Sweeney

Former President of the New Jersey Senate

Pastor Terry L. Richardson

First Baptist Church South Orange

Mayor Steve Fulop

Mayor of Jersey City, NJ

Pastor Rev. Rhonda Hart

Mt. Zion AME Church, Fenwick

Paul Jargowsky

Founding Director, Center for Urban Research and Urban Education at Rutgers University

Stefan Lallinger

Executive Director of Next100 and Senior Fellow

Sean Spiller

President, New Jersey Education Association; Former Mayor of Montclair