Panelists: Monica Cannon-Grant, the CEO and founder of Violence In Boston Inc., a nonprofit working to improve the quality of life and life outcomes of individuals from disenfranchised communities by reducing the prevalence of violence and the impact of associated trauma. Kai Grant, the founder of Black Market along with her husband Christopher, creating Nubian Square’s first flexible cultural event spaces with a signature artisan marketplace. She now manages Black Market’s programming, which focuses on reigniting Roxbury’s creative economy. Moderator: Malia Lazu, founder of the Lazu Group, is an award winning, tenured strategist in diversity & inclusion who sparked deep economic development and investment in urban entrepreneurship. She sits on the boards of Revolutionary Spaces.
Old South Meeting House
Associate Professor in the Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, and Founding Member for TIME’SUP Healthcare, Dr. Esther Choo is known as a bold and innovative voice on gender and racial equity in healthcare and an advocate for new frameworks for building positive and productive workplaces.
Virtual
Museum of Fine Arts
Siddhartha V. Shah, PEM Director of Education and Civic Engagement, and Dr. Walter Harper, professor of anthropology at Bridgewater State University
Virtual
Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Abraham Verghese, Tobias Wolff, and Alan Price (moderator)
John F. Kennedy Library
Lauret Savoy
Virtual
Anthea Butler, EJ Dionne, Patrick Lacroix, Emmett Price, Simran Jeet Singh, and Margery Eagan
John F. Kennedy Library
Museum of Fine Arts
Dr. Paul Arthur Berkman is a renowned science diplomat. In 2010, he co-directed the first formal dialogue between NATO and Russia on environmental security in the Arctic Ocean. Most recently, he was awarded the Fulbright Arctic Chair 2021-2022. Professor Berkman founded the first Science Diplomacy Center in an academic institution at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, directed through EvREsearch LTD, where he is CEO.
Virtual
Ijeoma Oluo
Virtual
Theresa Cardinal Brown, Roberto Gonzales, Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Daniel Tichenor, Jia Lynn Yang, and Julia Preston
John F. Kennedy Library
Virtual
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