Speakers Bureau: Social Justice

Aaron "Ronnie" Chatterji - fellow, Center for American Progress

Aaron Hurst - Founder and President of the Taproot Foundation

Abby Kiesa - Youth Coordinator at the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement (CIRCLE)

Adam Taylor - director of campaigns and organizing, Sojourners

Adelina Anthony - Multi-disciplinary artist

Amaad Rivera - Director, Racial Wealth Divide Program, United for a Fair Economy

Ambassador James Kimonyo - Ambassador of the Republic of Rwanda to the United States.

Avis A. Jones-DeWeever - Director of the Research, Public Policy, and Information Center for African American Women (RPPI)

Bennett Freeman - senior vice president for social research and policy, Calvert Group

Bernard (Bernie) Kleina - Executive Director, HOPE Fair Housing Center and Photographer

Beverly Fish - president of the Ann Arbor/Washtenaw County chapter of the National Organization for Women

Bill Kavanagh - Producer and Director, Kavanagh Productions

Cassandra Q. Butts - senior vice president for domestic policy, Center for American Progress

Cynthia G. Brown - Director of Education Policy, Center for American Progress

Damario Solomon-Simmons - U.S. attorney, professor, lobbyist, columnist

Daniel Helminiak, PhD - author, lecturer, Catholic priest, and theologian

Darryl Hunt - executive director, the Darryl Hunt Project for Freedom and Justice

David Madland - Director, American Worker Project, Center for American Progress

Dr. Keith Jennings - president and founder, African-American Human Rights Foundation

Dr. Lloyd Vincent Hackley - President & Chief Executive Officer of Hackley & Associates

Elaine Brown - author; activist; former chairman, Black Panther Party

Elizabeth de la Vega - author of United States v. George W. Bush et. al.

Erica Williams - Issue Campaigns Manager, Campus Progress

Esther Aguilera - President and Chief Executive Officer, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute

Faisal Alam - founder and former director of Al-Fatiha

Galen Peterson - Founding Director, Turf Unity Music Program

Gregory Moore - executive director, NAACP National Voter Fund

Heather Higginbottom - legislative director for Senator John Kerry

Imam Johari Abdul-Malik - Director of Outreach at the Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center in Washington, DC

Jacqueline DeCarlo - writer, and Senior Program Advisor to Catholic Relief Services' Economic Justice program

Jay Woodson - activist, National Hip Hop Political Convention

Jen Horwitz - Field organizer for Amnesty International USA's Mid-Atlantic Regional Office

Jen Kern - director, ACORN Living Wage Resource Center

Jennie Blackton - writer; actress; radio host; progressive activist

Joe Montano - norther Virginia regional field organizer, State Partnership Program

Julian Bond - chairman, NAACP. Civil rights activist.

Julie Fernandes - senior counsel, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights

Kenyon Farrow - activist, writer, and community organizer

Kevin Carey - Research and Policy Manager, Education Sector

LaGloria Wheatfall -

media, journalism, and HIV/AIDS activism



Lara Flint - counsel, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights, Senate Judiciary Committee

Laurie Robinson - assistant general counsel, labor and employment group, CBS Broadcasting Inc.

Lenore Palladino - former director, United Students Against Sweatshops

Lindsay Daniels - coordinator, Latino Empowerment and Advocacy Project

Lucas Benitez -

Co-director of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers



Lyric Thompson - Policy Analyst at Women for Women International

Marc Rodrigues - Student/Farmworker Alliance

Mark H. Greenberg - executive director, Task Force on Poverty, Center for American Progress

Mark Lloyd - senior fellow, Center for American Progress

Mark Rabil - attorney; member of the board of directors, the Darryl Hunt Project

Martin Eakes - CEO, Center for Responsible Lending and Self-Help

Martin Krislov - vice president and general counsel of the University of Michigan

Mary Mahoney - assistant director, Pro-Choice Public Education Project

Maya Rockeymoore - founder, President, CEO of Global Policy Solutions

Melody Gonzalez - national co-coordinator, Student/Farmworker Alliance

Mia Mingus - co-executive director of SPARK Reproductive Justice Now.

Monique Harden - co-founded Advocates for Environmental Human Rights

Nan Aron - president, Alliance for Justice

Nick Rathod - political director, Governor Eliot Spitzer

Nkechi Taifa - senior policy analyst, Open Society Policy Center

Norma Nava - vice president, For People of Color

Parvez Sharma - activist, writer, and director of the film "A Jihad for Love"

Ray Rogers - founding director of the Corporate Campaign Inc.

Rev. Al Sharpton - president and founder, National Action Network

Reverend Conrad Benette Tillard - executive director, A Movement for CHHANGE

Ruy Teixeira - joint fellow, Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation

Salih Booker - executive director, Global Rights

Shannon Minter, Esq. - Legal Director at the National Center for Lesbian Rights

Shelby Knox - activist featured in the documentary, “The Education of Shelby Knox”

Silvia Martinez -

Coordinator of the Trans Network of Nicaragua



Smita Satiani - Policy Associate, Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (RAINN)

Tanya Clay House - director of public policy, People for the American Way

Tova Andrea Wang - democracy fellow, Century Foundation

Wade J. Henderson - president and ceo, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights

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