Speaker Biographies
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Speaker Biographies Courtney Anderson ’06 Courtney Anderson graduated with a JD from Harvard Law School in 2006 and an LLM from Georgetown University Law Center in 2012. She practiced real estate law at Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago for four years before beginning a two-year clinical fellowship at GULC in affordable housing and community development. She is currently a law professor at Georgia State University College of Law and teaches property, health law and poverty law courses and is affiliated faculty at the Georgia State University School of Public Health. Courtney Anderson is the owner of Vibe Ride, a boutique fitness studio located in the Midtown neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. Vibe Ride is a start-up company founded in 2014, and is a women and minority owned business that specializes in indoor cycling. Afia Asamoah ’05 Afia Asamoah is Senior Product Counsel at Verily Life Sciences, formerly Google Life Sciences. She leads the legal, compliance, and regulatory affairs teams responsible for advising all health-related products developed at Verily. She was the first lawyer hired by the Google[x] life sciences team and was the sole lawyer advising on FDA matters across Google. Previously, Afia was a regulatory attorney at Covington & Burling LLP, where she advised on a range of healthcare regulatory and compliance issues. From 2009-2011, Ms. Asamoah was also a Special Assistant in the Office of the Commissioner at the US Food and Drug Administration, where she received four awards, including the FDA Commissioner’s Special Citation. In addition to her Harvard Law education, Afia holds a Masters of Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a degree from Harvard University in Psychology. Werten F.W. Bellamy, Jr. Werten Bellamy is the President of Stakeholders, Inc., a company founded in 2007 that provides training and conference resources directed to the active career management needs of corporations and service firms. Stakeholders works in over 100 global law firms and law departments. Mr. Bellamy launched Stakeholders following sixteen (16) years of practice in both law firms and law departments. He completed his legal career as General Counsel of Celera Genomics. Werten is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Virginia School of Law. Myma Belo-Osagie LL.M. ’78, S.J.D. ’85 Dr. Myma Adwowa Belo-Osagie served as a Managing Partner in Udo, Udoma & Belo- Osagie, a leading Nigerian corporate law firm. Dr. Belo-Osagie has been the Chairman of Africa Opportunity Fund Limited since February 28, 2014 and its Non-executive Director since June 2007. She serves as a Non-Executive Director of FSDH Merchant Bank Limited (Formerly, First Securities Discount House Limited), the African WildLife Foundation and is a member of Harvard University’s International Advisory Committee . She is a member of the New York, Ghana and Nigeria Bars and is a member of the American Bar Association. Dr. Belo-Osagie graduated from the University of Ghana with a LLB degree. She obtained a LLM degree and a SJD degree from Harvard Law School. Hon. Victor A. Bolden ’89 Victor A. Bolden is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. Prior to his appointment to the federal bench, Judge Bolden served as the Corporation Counsel for New Haven, Connecticut, the chief legal advisor of and attorney for Connecticut’s second largest municipality. Before working for the City of New Haven, Judge Bolden was the General Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF). He also practiced with the law firm of Wiggin and Dana LLP in New Haven, Connecticut, served as an Assistant Counsel with LDF as well as a Marvin Karpatkin Fellow and Staff Attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation's (ACLU) National Legal Department. Judge Bolden also has taught as an Adjunct Professor at New York Law School and conducted seminars on constitutional law in South Africa and Brazil. He received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University. Dorian O. Burton Dorian Burton, Ed.L.D., is currently the Program Officer at the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust in Chapel Hill, NC, a foundation that supports the education advancement at all levels with programs and activities that hold exceptional value. He was formerly the Co- Director of The TandemED Initiative for Black Male Achievement and Community Improvement at Harvard University Law School's Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, and was the Wasserman Foundation Fellow in the Doctor of Education Leadership Program at Harvard. Prior to Harvard, Dr. Burton worked as an independent consultant with various non-profits and school districts between Harlem, NY; Houston, TX; and Newark, NJ. In his role as a consultant, Burton worked to provide strategic support to Newark Public School principals in the launch of their Renew School Turnaround initiative. In addition, he worked in a special projects role to develop external partnerships for the Harlem Children’s Zone College Success Office. Dr. Burton started his professional career working for the National Football League and also served as the founding Program Director of the Education Pioneers Houston Office, the Houston Director of Stand for Children, and the Chief Strategy Officer for TandemED. In addition to his doctorate degree from Harvard, Burton holds a Master’s degree in higher education from the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University and a Bachelor’s Degree in sociology from Pennsylvania State University, where he also was a member of the varsity football team. During Dr. Burton’s tenure at Harvard as a Wasserman Family Fellow, he was selected to the Dean's Committee on equity and diversity, served as a Teaching Fellow for Lani Guinier at Harvard Law School and was awarded the International Marshall Memorial Fellowship from the German Marshall Fund. Additionally, Dr. Burton was a Gordon Ambach Fellow with the National Governors Association Education Division and The North Carolina Department of 2 Public Instruction, as well as a non-Resident Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Dr. Burton currently resides in Durham, NC. He is deeply driven by his faith, and is the proud son of two wonderful scholarly parents, the father of four great children, and brother to three older sisters who serve as his inspiration, comic relief, and confidants. In 2014 Dr. Burton was selected to the Boston Business Journal’s “40 under 40.” He has his own blog on Huffington Post and tweets frequently @Dorian_Burton. He has also been published in the Boston Globe. Sheryll D. Cashin ’89 Sheryll Cashin, Professor of Law at Georgetown University, is the author of Place Not Race, The Agitator’s Daughter and The Failures of Integration. She is a frequent commentator on law, race, and race relations, appearing on NPR, CNN, ABC News, and MSNBC. Her commentaries have also appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Salon, and The Root. She is working on a new book that explores why interracial love was prohibited in the United States and how, since the landmark Supreme Court case of Loving vs. Virginia declared anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional, a new culturally dexterous class of ardent integrators is emerging and will influence politics. Kenneth I. Chenault ’76 Kenneth I. Chenault is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of American Express Company. Mr. Chenault joined the company in September 1981 as Director of Strategic Planning. He was named President of the Consumer Card Group in 1989, and in 1993 he became President of Travel Related Services (TRS), which encompassed all of American Express’ card and travel businesses in the United States. In 1995, he assumed additional responsibility for the company’s worldwide card and travel businesses and also was named Vice Chairman of American Express. Mr. Chenault became President and Chief Operating Officer in February 1997. He assumed his current responsibilities as CEO on January 1, 2001, and as Chairman on April 23 of that year. Before he came to American Express, Mr. Chenault was a management consultant with Bain & Co. from 1979 to 1981, and an attorney with Rogers & Wells from 1977 to 1979. Mr. Chenault serves on the boards of American Express and several other corporate and nonprofit organizations, including IBM, The Procter & Gamble Company, the Harvard Corporation, the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, the National Center on Addiction & Substance Abuse at Columbia University, the Smithsonian Institution’s Advisory Council for the National Museum of African American History & Culture, National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center, and the Bloomberg Family Foundation. He also is a member of the Business Council and serves on the Executive Committee of the Business Roundtable as well as the Partnership for New York. In 2014, Fortune Magazine named Mr. Chenault as one the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders in its inaugural list and ranked American Express among 2016’s top fifteen World’s Most Admired Companies. A wide variety of civic, social service and community organizations have recognized Mr. Chenault for his public service leadership. He has received the Phoenix House Public Service Award, the Corporate Responsibility Award from the International Rescue Committee, the Wall Street Rising Leadership Award, and the Hadrian Award from the World Monuments Fund, among others. In addition, he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 3 Mr. Chenault holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA in history from Bowdoin College, and has received honorary degrees from several universities. He and his wife, Kathryn, live in New York City, and they have two sons. Teresa Clarke ’87 Ms. Clarke is one of 15 private sectors leaders in the United States appointed to President Obama’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.