Speaker Biographies

Racial Wealth & Health Disparities: Impact on Education Opportunity, Access, Outcomes & Policy Solutions

William A. (“Sandy”) Darity, Jr.

Keisha Bentley-Edwards, Ph.D

Danita Mason-Hogans

Leadership & Policy Perspectives on COVID-19 & Racial Equity in Education

Kisha Clemons

James E. Ford

Sen. Valerie P. Foushee

Lauren Fox

MariaRosa Rangel

Matthew Bristow-Smith

Whole Child Impacts of COVID-19

Nicky Charles

Sil Ganzó

Dr. Patricia Hilliard

Diego Mureño

Yvette M. Richardson

Early Childhood Impacts & Policy Solutions

Leslie Babinski

Lorena R. Gonzalez

Michelle Hughes

Iheoma U. Iruka

Policing and Schools

Seth L. Bellamy

Ronda Taylor Bullock, PhD

Barbara Fedders

Greear Arthur Webb

School Policies and Discipline Disparities

Philip Michael Anderson, Jr.

Rani Dasi

Rep. Graig Meyer

Letha Muhammad

Tyler Whittenberg

Resilience & Learning Workshop

Chanda Battle

Elizabeth DeKonty

Christy Lockhart

Racial (In)Equity in North Carolina Schools: Where We’ve Been, Where We Are, and Where We Go From Here

Cherrel Miller Dyce

Dudley E. Flood

William P Jackson

Leslie Locklear

Mary Ann Wolf