Keynote Speaker
Tukufu Zuberi – Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, and Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, host of History Detectives, writer/producer of African Independence, and curator of the Penn Museum’s Africa Gallery.
Spoken Word Performer
Ndeen Al-Barqawi – international and city wide spoken word champion, student at the Community College of Philadelphia, prospective student at Arcadia University, and aspiring early childhood education teacher.
Spoken Word Performer
Michelle Myers – award-winning poet, community activist, founding member of Yellow Rage, host and co-creator of Drop the Mic, and Associate Professor of English at the Community College of Philadelphia.