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Crystal A. deGregory, Ph.D. is the founding director of the Mary McLeod Bethune Center for the Study of Women and Girls at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida. Her forthcoming book, “Greatest Good: Nashville’s Black Colleges, Their Students, and the Fight for Freedom, Justice, and Equality” is under contract with Vanderbilt University Press.
Dr. Elizabeth C. Stewart is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Health Practice at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee.
Dr. Maria A. Lumpkin , senior vice president and chief operating officer at Livingstone College in Salisbury, NC and adjunct professor in the Department of Education at Clark Atlanta University.
Keith Harriston is a Washington, D.C., writer and a two-time nominated finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. He worked for 25 years as reporter, editor and senior newsroom manager at The Washington Post. He is co-author of Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America (Grand Central Publishing October 2021.) Harriston is a graduate of Morehouse College and earned a master’s in journalism from the University of Kansas and a certificate in news management from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Ericka Blount is an award-winning journalist, author, screenwriter, producer, and professor. She’s currently a full-time lecturer at the Cathy Hughes School of Communications at Howard University. She’s written for a variety of outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vibe, Spin, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, The Magazine, People magazine, Essence magazine, The Washington Post, Wax Poetics, Quartz and The Root. She is the author of Love, Peace, and Soul, a book about the history of the show, Soul Train.
Princess B. Gadsen is an award-winning journalist and author from Pineland, South Carolina. She holds a bachelor's degree in mass communications with a concentration in journalism from Claflin University. The former news reporter's writing experience includes hard news, feature stories, a children's book and more.
Zerline Hughes Spruill writes about social justice and issues impacting the Black diaspora. Her work has been featured in publications such as the Los Angeles Times, Ebony Magazine, and the Boston Globe.
Dr. Marybeth Gasman is the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education, a Distinguished Professor, and the Associate Dean for Research in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University. She also serves as the Executive Director of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity & Justice and the Executive Director of the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions.
Rob Knox currently serves as the Senior Director of Strategic Communications at the Thurgood Marshall College. Prior to this role, Knox worked at UNC Greensboro as the Associate AD for Strategic Communications from 2020-22. This past summer, Knox was recognized by the NCAA with its Champion of Diversity award. Rob is a graduate of Lincoln (Pa.) University and native of Chester, Pennsylvania. Knox is one of the most influential, passionate and accomplished athletic communications professionals in the country.
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