Speakers

Cory McCray- Maryland General Assembly, Senator
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: Black Voices, Black Votes: A Discussion about Keeping Promises

Bill Fletcher Jr.- Author and activist
Keynote Speaker: The Time Has Long Since Come to Stop Blaming Ourselves for being Oppressed

Robin Williams- Director of Civil Rights, United Food and Commercial Workers Union
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: Black and Brown in the Workplace

Kwesi Chappin- Senior Political Director, Color of Change
Leading Workshop: Public Narrative

Dr. Kristee Haggins- Co-founder, Safe Black Space
Leading Workshop: Healing Circles and Safe Black Space

Jacqui Patterson- Director, NAACP Environmental and Climate Change Dept.
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: Green Jobs, Black Work

Erica Smiley- Executive Director, Jobs with Justice
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: LGBTQ and Black at Work

Neneki Lee- Director, Service Employees International Union
Co-Leading Workshop: I Am Not My Hair

William Pritchett- Principal, Pritchett & Associates
Leading Workshop: Deconstructing White Supremacy Culture in our Workplaces and Organizations

Dominic Moulden- Resource Organizer, One DC
Co-Leading Workshop: Making the Just City- Gentrification & Community Health

Chenjerai Kumanyika- Rutgers University Journalism Professor and award-winning podcaster
Leading Workshop: Podcasting Power: Using Podcasting to Amplify Hidden Histories, Contemporary Struggles and the Political Power of Black Worker Voices

Janel Bailey- Director, Los Angeles Black Worker Center
Leading Workshop: Economy Through a Black Lens

Lenora Knowles- Baltimore Black Workers Center
Co-Leading Workshops: Know Your Rights and Reversing Runaway Inequity

Carmen Berkeley- Senior Associate, Civitas Public Affairs Group, DJ
Co-Leading Workshop: How to Clap Back & Not Lose Your Job

Gioncarlo Valentine- Award Winning Photographer and Baltimore Native
Leading Workshop: Making Art While Black

Phela Townsend- Doctoral Student, Rutgers University
Co-Leading Workshop: Black Votes Matter

Lady Brion- International spoken word artist and Baltimore native
Opening Performer & Leading Workshop: From a Burning CVS to a Phoenix Rising

Alyxandra Goodwin, ACRE– Research Analyst
Leading Workshops: Making Moves to Move Baltimore and
Workers, Women & Finance

Nzingha Hooker- Senior Attorney, National Employment Law Project
Co-Leading Workshop: Best Practices for Working Together

Rebecca Dixon- Chief of programs, National Employment Law Project
Co-Leading Workshop: Best Practices for Working Together

Serita El Amin- Organizer, One DC
Co-Leading Workshop: Making the Just City- Gentrification & Community Health

Yasmine Pauling- Political and Policy Fellow, The Sunrise Movement
Co-Leading Workshop: The New Green Deal

Aisha Satterwhite- Director, coworker.org
Leading Workshop: Dancing the Gig

Zaki Smith- The Next 100
Leading Workshop: The Silent Sentence

Sunu Chandy- Legal Director, National Women’s Law Center
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: LGBTQ and Black at Work

Neidi Dominguez- International Union of Painters and Allied Trades
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: Black and Brown in the Workplace

Joan Joans- Acting Director, National LGBTQ Workers Center
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: LGBTQ and Black at Work

Erika Symmonds- Director, Workforce Development, GRID Alternatives
Co-Leading Workshop: The New Green Deal and
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: Green Jobs, Black Work

Lester Spence- Author and Johns Hopkins Professor
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: Knocking the Hustle

Clair Watson-Minson- Workforce strategist, ABC
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: Knocking the Hustle

Antwain Jordan- Baltimore Algebra Project
Leading Workshop: Young, Gifted, Black + Unemployed in Baltimore

Nakisha Lewis- AFL-CIO
Moderating Black Table Talk: Black Voices, Black Votes: A Discussion about Keeping Promises

Reena Doyle- California Teacher’s Association
Leading Workshop: Mitigating Your Blackness at Work: A Harmful Survival Technique

Destiney Lee- The Sunrise Movement
Co-Leading Workshop: The New Green Deal

Kevin Wilson Jr. – Academy Award nominated filmmaker
“My Nephew Emmett”
Black Film Festival: Director’s Q&A

Britni Joy Matila- Mrs. Maryland ABN 2019

Lethal Ladies of Baltimore- Leadership School for Young Women Step Team

Charisa the Violin Diva