Speakers and panelists

Featured Speakers and Panelists

• Michael Lomax, President and CEO, United Negro College Fund
• Kevin Powell, Activist and Writer
• Milton Little, President and CEO, United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta
• Robert Franklin, President, Morehouse College
• Kathy Augustine, Deputy Superintendent, Atlanta Public Schools
• Cecil Phillips, Chairman and CEO, Place Properties
• Gail Tusan Washington, Judge, Fulton County Superior Court
• Jovita Moore, Anchor, WSB-TV

Additional Speakers and Panelists

• Sekou Biddle (New York '93), Washington D.C. Board of Education
• Bill Bolling, Atlanta Community Food Bank
• Andrew Broy (Eastern North Carolina '95), Georgia Department of Education
• Keecia Broy (Eastern North Carolina '96), DonorsChoose.org
• Jerome Byers, Wachovia
• Kelly Cadman, Georgia Charter Schools Association
• Edwin Chang (Atlanta '01), KIPP STRIVE
• Stacy Chavis, The White House Project
• Cayanna Collier-Good (Houston '99), Georgia Department of Education
• Dee Desnoyers (Greater New Orleans '98), Horizons School, Florence McDonnel Center
• Andrew Doyle (Eastern North Carolina '06), Deloitte
• Diana Ellsworth (Atlanta '01), McKinsey and Associates
• Courtney English (Atlanta '07), Atlanta Public Schools
• Robert Fortson (Baltimore '00), Turner, Bachmann, and Garrett, LLC
• Kwame Griffith (Houston '02), Teach For America
• Chaula Gupta, Teach For America
• David Jernigan (Atlanta '01), KIPP Metro-Atlanta Collaborative
• Anthony Jewett (New York '03), Bardoli Global, Inc.
• Rebecca Kaye (Atlanta '00), Atlanta Public Schools
• Jen Bluestein Lamb, Teach For America
• Ira Leeds (Memphis '06), Project Casse/Emory Medical School
• Etienne LeGrand, W.E.B. DuBois Society
• Annie Lewis, Teach For America
• Renee Lewis Glover, Atlanta Housing Authority
• Venola Mason (Atlanta '03), The New Teacher Project
• Dan Nieman (New York '01), Teach For America
• Cecil Phillips, Place Properties
• Sharron Pitts, Atlanta Public Schools
• Doug Rosenbloom (Atlanta '02) , Douglas S. Rosenbloom, LLC
• Stephen Satterfield, International Society of Africans in Wine
• Jabali Sawicki, Uncommon Schools
• Jud Turner, Turner, Bachmann, and Garrett, LLC
• Susan Walker (Rio Grande Valley '01), Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education
• Kate Williams (Newark '02), Teach For America
• Pat Willis, Voices for Georgia's Children