Speakers

Dr. Greg Jones

President, Belmont University

Dr. Agenia W. Clark

President, Fisk University

Dr. Richard English

Director, Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen's University Belfast

Joe Kennedy III

Congressman, President of Citizens Energy

Freddie O'Connell

Mayor of Metropolitan Nashville & Davidson County

Micky Murray

Lord Mayor, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Dr. Jeffery L. Ames

Director of Choral Activities and Professor of Music, Belmont University

Dr. Lori Baker

Executive Vice President for Aspirational Excellence, Belmont University

Dr. Joe Duffy

Professor of Social Work and Inclusion and Fellow of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen's University Belfast

Fisk Jubilee Singers®

Vocal Artists and Students at Fisk University in Nashville, TN, Who Sing and Travel Worldwide

Dr. Carmen Reese Foster

Assistant Professor of Social Work, Belmont University

Howard Gentry

Criminal Court Clerk of Davidson County

Tasneem Ansariyah Grace

Vice President, Mosaic Changemakers

Dr. Amy Hodges Hamilton

Director of Undergraduate Core Curriculum, Professor of English and Global Honors, Belmont University

Demetria Kalodimos

Career journalist, storyteller, documentarian & musician; 2021 Journalism Professional in Residence, Lipscomb University

Dwight Lewis

Former Reporter, Editor and Columnist for The Tennessean

Dr. Peter McLoughlin

Reader of Politics and Fellow of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen's University Belfast

Jon Meacham

Presidential historian and Pulitzer-prize winning author; Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Chair in the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University; co-chair of the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy

Dr. Mary Ellen Pethel

Assistant Professor of Global Leadership Studies; Associate Director, Belmont Global Honors; Belmont Data Collaborative Senior Data Fellow, Belmont University

Betsy Phillips

Vanderbilt University Press; Author, Dynamite Nashville

Dr. James B. Pratt, Jr.

Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Discipline Coordinator of Homeland Security and Criminal Justice, Fisk University

Alice Randall

Professor and Writer-in-Residence, Department of African American and Diaspora Studies; Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities, Vanderbilt University

Rick Rekedal

Chief Creative Officer, Executive Director of the Creative Arts Collective for Christian Life & Faith, Belmont University

Dr. D'Angelo Taylor

Vice President of Hope, Unity & Belonging, Belmont University

Adena Wright Williams

CEO, WrightWay Consulting. Inc; Board Member Kelly Miller Smith Foundation

Dr. Learotha Williams, Jr.

Professor of African American and Public History, North Nashville Heritage Project Coordinator, Tennessee State University