7:30 am – 8:45 am
CHAPTER DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
Empire East – 2nd Floor
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
REGISTRATION
Lobby – 2nd Floor
9:00 am – 10:15 am
SOCIAL JUSTICE & THE DIASPORA
Metropolitan East – 2nd Floor
10:15 am – 10:30 am
Metropolitan East – 2nd Floor
10:30 am – 11:15 am
BLACK MENTAL HEALTH STATE OF EMERGENCY
Moderator: Alicia Butler, Health & Wellness Fellow, National Action Network
Panelists: Ebony Baylor, Director of Policy and Advocacy, In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda
Kier Gaines, Licensed Therapist and Social Media Influencer
Dr. Wendy Osefo, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Education, Author, Cast Member, Housewives of Potomac
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Congresswoman, U.S. House of Representatives, (NJ-12), Chair, Emergency Task force on Black Youth Suicide and Mental Health and Co-Chair, Congressional Caucus on Black Women & Girls
Resource Announcement:
Rev. Dr. Que English, HHS Director, Center for Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
Metropolitan East – 2nd Floor
11:15 am – 12:30 pm
TREASURED INSTITUTIONS: HBCU’S
Moderator: Dr. Jamal Watson, Trinity Washington University
Panelists:
Dr. Gregory J. Vincent, Talladega College
Attorney Lezli Baskerville, NAFEO
Dr. Kevin James, President of Morris Brown College
Dr. Christine Johnson-McPhail, Saint Augustine’s University
Lodriguez Murray, United Negro College Fund
Dr. Gregory J. Vincent, Talladega College
Metropolitan East – 2nd Floor
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
REVEREND DR. WILLIAM A. JONES MINISTERS LUNCHEON (Ticketed Event – Invite Only)
Hosted by: Rev. Dr. W. Franklyn Richardson, Chairman, National Board of Directors, National Action Network
Keynote Address: Bishop J. Drew Sheard, Presiding Bishop of the Church of God in Christ & Pastor of Greater Emmanuel Institutional, C.O.G.I.C, Detroit MI
Metropolitan East – 2nd Floor
12:30pm – 1:30 pm BREAK
1:30pm – 3:00 pm
PREACHING JUSTICE
Moderator:
Rev. Dr. W. Franklyn Richardson, Chairman, National Board of Directors, National Action Network
Panelists: Dr. Fredrick D. Haynes, III, Senior Pastor, Friendship-West Baptist Church, and Board Member, National Board of Directors, National Action Network
Bishop Adam Jefferson Richardson, Senior Bishop of the AME Church
Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III, Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ
Bishop Vashti McKenzie, Interim President and General Secretary, National Council of Churches
Bishop James Dixon, Community of Faith Church, Houston TX
Pastor Gabby Cudjoe Wilkes, Co-Pastor, The Double Love Experience Church
3:00 Pm – 3:30 Pm
Metropolitan East – 2nd Floor
3:30pm – 4:45 pm
INTERNET FOR ALL: THE FIGHT FOR BROADBAND & DIGITAL EQUITY
Opening Remarks: FCC Representative
Moderator:
Pastor Steffie Bartley, NE Regional Director, National Action Network, and Board Member, National Board of Directors, National Action Network
Panelists: AT&T Representative Michele Cober, Director, Strategic Alliances, Verizon
Nicolaine Lazarre, Vice President, External Affairs, Charter Communications
Sean E. Mickens, Associate Vice President & External Affairs, Comcast
Clint Odom, VP, Strategic Alliances & External Affairs, T-Mobile
Metropolitan East – 2nd Floor
4:45 pm – 5:45 pm
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Moderator: Debra Fraser-Howze, Choose Healthy Life
Panelists:
Jacqueline L. Burton , President, Conference of National Black Churches
Dr. Angela R. Elam, Assistant Professor & Health Disparity Policy Researcher, Univ. of Michigan
Tony Wafford, I Choose Life Foundation
Metropolitan East – 2nd Floor
4:45 pm – 5:45 pm
GUN VIOLENCE PANEL
Empire East – 2nd Floor
5:45 pm – 5:455 pm
The Honorable Yvette Clarke, Congresswoman, U.S. House of Representatives
Metropolitan East – 2nd Floor
5:55 pm – 7:00 pm BREAK
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
BATTLE OF THE CHOIRS
Metropolitan East – 2nd Floor
