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Dr. Harry Williams is the President & CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund(TMCF), the largest organization exclusively representing the Black College community.
Keith Harriston is a Washington, D.C., writer
Dr. Marybeth Gasman is the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education & a Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University.
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.
Dr. Bridget Hollis Staten serves as the Co-Chief Executive Officer of HBCU Times Magazine. She is a proud alumna of both Albany State University and South Carolina State University. Dr. Staten earned her Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Brandi Kellam is a two- time Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist and documentary film director. Kellam’s work has been featured by MSNBC, NBC News, CBS News, ProPublica, The Chronicle of Higher Education, ESSENCE, and more.
Dr. Lawrence M. Drake II is a distinguished global executive leader, media psychologist, university trustee, scholar, and transformative strategist with more than four decades of leadership across corporate, academic, and entrepreneurial sectors, both domestically and internationally. He has served as University Dean and Interim President at Bethune-Cookman University and Albany State University, respectively, and has held senior leadership roles within two Fortune 500 companies.
Dr. Gabrielle Pina is currently the Executive Director of the Women’s LeadHERship Institute and Director of Academic Communications and Public Relations at Virginia State University.
Zerline Hughes Spruill is a proud Howard University alumna, co-founder of The Capstone Crate and a writer who lives in Washington, D.C.
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