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.

James E. Bowers ’70 James "Jim" Bowers is Director, Compliance Risk Services and practices in the areas of compliance risk management, corporate governance, ethics, and antitrust and securities law. In this capacity, Jim provides legal advice related to the numerous compliance and ethical requirements mandated under a variety of state and federal laws, as well as regulations and compliance best practices.

Jim joined the firm after 25 years of legal and compliance experience at Aetna Inc. The last position he held at Aetna was vice president, corporate compliance, where Jim had broad responsibilities for compliance and ethics matters, including executive and board compliance counseling. Over the years, Jim also has functioned as senior antitrust and securities counsel. Prior to joining Aetna, Jim held a senior position in the Office of the General Counsel at the Securities and Exchange Commission and before that taught law at the University of South Carolina School of Law and Boston University School of Law.

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

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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 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.

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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.

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. She serves on the board of Cim Financial Services Ltd, a public company domiciled in Mauritius and Singapore, with over $150 billion under administration. She was named one of the Top 25 Influential Women in Business by the Network Journal, and has been honored twice by the South African government for her contributions to education as the founder of the Student Sponsorship Programme of South Africa.

She earned a BA in economics, cum laude, from Harvard College, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a JD‎ from Harvard Law School.

Gina Clayton ’10 Gina Clayton is Founder and Executive Director of Essie Justice Group (Essie). An award winning social entrepreneur, attorney, activist, and advocate for women, Gina launched Essie (named after her great grandmother, Essie Baily) in 2014 to support and empower women with incarcerated loved ones.

Gina saw the impact of incarceration on women both in her personal and professional life. As a housing attorney, Gina designed and implemented the Housing Defense Practice at The Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem (NDS) to represent women who were facing eviction as the result of a criminal matter. During this work, she became resolved to further examine and expose the harmful impact of mass incarceration on women who have loved ones living behind bars.

Gina grew up in Los Angeles, where she started as a youth organizer for the NAACP while studying at the University of Southern California. Under her leadership, the chapter became the largest in a nine state western region. She organized campaigns addressing campus policing, voter registration, and CA state sentencing laws. Her successes locally led to her election to the NAACP National Board of Directors where Julian Bond appointed Gina to the Executive Committee and the President/CEO Search Committee.

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Gina’s experiences as an organizer and civil rights activist in Los Angeles led her to pursue the law. Gina interned or studied under some of the country’s most respected criminal justice reform organizations and leaders, including the Southern Center for Human Rights, Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, Charles Ogletree, Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., and Soffiyah Elijah. After law school, Gina dedicated herself to working directly with low-income women and families impacted by the criminal justice system.

In 2010, she was awarded an Equal Justice Works Fellowship for her work at NDS. In 2014 Gina won a Soros Justice Fellowship, an Echoing Green Global Fellowship, and a Harvard Public Service Venture Fund Seed Grant in support of her design and launch of Essie Justice Group. Gina was named “Top 14 Women Who Rocked 2014” by Colorlines, and in 2015 was named 2015 JMK Innovation Prize a San Francisco Magazine Soldier of Social Change in their "Women In Power Issue."

Gina holds a BA in American Studies and Ethnicity, with a minor in Education, from the University of Southern California and a JD from Harvard Law School.

Antoinette (Sequeira) Coakley HLS ’95 Antoinette is Director of Business & Regulatory Law for Ahold U.S.A., Inc., a multi-billion dollar international grocery retail company operating stores in Europe and the east coast of the US, including Stop & Shop (in New England and New York), Giant (in the DC-tri-state area) and Giant/Martin’s (in Pennsylvania) stores and the Peapod online grocer. Antoinette is a seasoned business attorney with over 20 years of experience, including the past 15 years at Ahold and Stop & Shop. She negotiates a wide-range of vendor contracts for the Merchandising, Supply Chain, Pharmacy, Human Resources, Marketing and Store Operations areas of the company. Antoinette manages antitrust compliance, antitrust litigation and government inquiries. Her practice also includes regulatory and corporate compliance matters, vendor dispute resolution and litigation management. She advises her business partners on a host of commercial and compliance matters.

Prior to working at Ahold, Antoinette was a corporate associate at Ropes & Gray in Boston. She is a Director and former Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of The Freedom House, a local Boston non-profit that helps innercity youth create pathways to success through education, community service and leadership development. Antoinette also serves as a mentor for students and young professionals. A native of Boston, she is the daughter of a hardworking single mother from Cathedral Projects in Boston’s South End community and is herself the proud mother of two amazing teenagers. Antoinette graduated with Cum Laude Honors from Harvard-Radcliffe College in 1992, with an AB degree in Government, and earned her JD from Harvard Law School in 1995.

Dominick R. Cromartie ’03 Dominick Cromartie is Principal Counsel at Apple Inc. He leads the legal team for Marketing Platforms, Apple’s advertising technology group. He also works with the Legal Internet Services group reviewing the company’s online marketing. Previously, Dominick was an attorney at the National Advertising Division examining advertising claims made by national advertisers. He was also an attorney at the law firms Davis & Gilbert and Paul Weiss. Dominick received his JD from Harvard Law School and BA from John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

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Shelmun Dashan ’13 Shelmun Dashan is a Staff Attorney at Legal Assistance Foundation (LAF), the premier legal services provider for low-income residents of Chicago and its suburbs. Shelmun currently represents tenants in subsidized housing in eviction defense suits, affirmative suits, and to preserve clients' housing subsidies in administrative hearings. After graduation, Shelmun was awarded a Harvard Public Service Venture Fund Fellowship and served as a Fellow at LAF representing low-income clients in a range of consumer protection litigation and advocacy efforts. Shelmun was born in Indiana and lived with her family in Nigeria from ages six through 18.

Cari K. Dawson ’93 Cari K. Dawson is a Partner at Alston & Bird LLP, where she chairs the Class Action Practice Team and is Co-Chair of the Diversity Committee. Cari is a creative problem solver, legal strategist and committed advocate, and has an established track record of successfully defending Fortune 500 companies as lead counsel in high-profile litigation nationwide. Cari has defended hundreds of class actions across an array of industries and regularly assists clients in commercial litigation, strategic counseling and crisis management. In 2015, Cari was named one of the country’s “Most Influential Black Lawyers” by Savoy Magazine and a “Woman Worth Watching” by Diversity Journal, and in 2013, the National Law Journal named her one of the “100 Most Influential Lawyers in America.” In addition to her Harvard Law education, Cari is a graduate of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Darryl L. DePriest ’79 Darryl L. DePriest is the seventh presidentially appointed and Senate-confirmed Chief Counsel for the Office of Advocacy.

Prior to joining the Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy, Mr. DePriest was the Senior Consultant for Legal and Regulatory Communications for Hill+Knowlton Strategies, a position he held since 2008. Before joining Hill+Knowlton, Mr. DePriest served as the General Counsel of the American Bar Association from 1988 until 2006. From 1980 to 1988, Mr. DePriest was a litigation attorney at Jenner & Block, where he was named partner in 1987. From 1979 to 1980, he was a judicial law clerk for Judge Robert E. Keeton of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Mr. DePriest has also served as a fellow, board member, and president of Leadership Greater Chicago, and as chair of the City of Chicago Board of Ethics. Mr. DePriest received an AB from Harvard University.

Jenée Desmond-Harris ’06 Jenée Desmond-Harris is a John S. Knight Journalism fellow at Stanford University, studying ways to enrich journalism about race in America. She’s worked as a staff writer for Vox.com, covering race, law, and politics in news articles, explainers, and features. Previously, she was an editor at The Root, an African American news site, where she served as White House correspondent, authored an advice column answering race and culture-related ethics and etiquette questions, and hosted “The Confab,” a politics and pop culture podcast. A graduate of HLS, her journalism career began in 2008, when she began freelancing for Time, The Root, and MSNBC while she was still working as an attorney in the antitrust practice of a large law firm.

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Thembisa Dingaan LL.M. ’97 Thembisa Dingaan is an Executive Director of Skweyiya Investment Holdings and Founder of Theshka Gallery. She is an Independent Non-Executive Director of several companies, including Absa Bank Limited (ABSA), a member of the Barclays Africa Group Limited. She has additional responsibility of being a Board member of ABSA Financial Services, ABSA Fund Managers and she is a trustee of ABSA’s Pension Fund. For the past ten years she has also served on the Board of the Development Bank of Southern Africa, where she has served as chair of the Credit and Investment Committee, member of Audit, Risk and Finance Committee. In addition she is a Non-Executive Director of Johannesburg Stock Exchange listed companies such as Telkom SOC Limited, Imperial Holdings Limited, and Japanese owned company, Sumitomo Rubber South Africa.

Ms. Dingaan is a former member of the Minister of Trade and Industry Standing Advisory Committee on Company Law, as well as a board member of the South African Export Credit Insurance Corporation (ECIC), Royal Bafokeng Resources, Enaleni Cipla Pharmeceuticals and Placecol Holdings (now listed as Imbalie Beauty Limited). She is a former Investment Banker, having had roles at Citigroup in Johannesburg and the local South African Bank, Nedbank Capital. She started her career in the legal profession with White & Case in New York and later moved to their Johannesburg office. She is admitted to the New York State Bar.

She also holds degree from the University of Kwazulu Natal in Law as well as a Postgraduate diploma from University of the Witwatersrand in Tax Law. Thembisa has a keen interest in travel, the arts and design.

Chris-Tia E. Donaldson ’03 By day, Chris-Tia Donaldson provides strategic legal advice to top executives at one of the world's largest Fortune 100 companies. By night, the lawyer-turned-businesswoman is inspiring women from the south side of Chicago to South Africa to embrace healthier beauty practices through Thank God It's Natural, her line of natural products for hair and skin, which are now available at Target, Whole Foods, and Sally Beauty Supply stores nationwide. Under Chris-Tia’s leadership, the company plans to expand into healthy snacks, cookbooks, supplements, and fitness apparel in the near future. Chris-Tia has been featured in major media publications such as USA Today, Marie Claire, Essence, Black Enterprise, Ebony, Heart & Soul, and the Chicago Tribune, as well as many other outlets throughout the country. Her book, Thank God I’m Natural: The Ultimate Guide to Caring for Natural Hair is a #1 Amazon bestseller, and was hailed the “Natural Hair Bible” by Essence Magazine. You can follow her on Instagram @tginceo.

Daniel E. Eaton ’89 Dan Eaton is a partner in the Litigation Department of the San Diego law firm of Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek. He concentrates his practice on defending and advising San Diego employers on a full range of employment issues. A native New Yorker, Dan received his Bachelor of Science Degree from Georgetown University in 1984. After working in Washington, D.C. for U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (PA), he attended Harvard Law School and received his degree, cum laude, in 1989.

Mr. Eaton is a former chair of the San Diego County Bar Association Legal Ethics Committee. For ten years, he edited Ethics Quarterly, a publication abstracting California state and federal legal ethics cases. For many years, Dan has been a member of the Standing Committee on Discipline United States District Court for the Southern District of California. Dan has written and spoken extensively on employment law and legal ethics issues.

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Dan teaches classes in business ethics and employment law at San Diego State University’s College of Business Administration. Government and non-profit panels on which Dan has served include past terms as President of the Earl B. Gilliam Bar Association (the association of San Diego African American attorneys), Chair of the San Diego County Bar Legal Ethics Committee, President of the City of San Diego Civil Service Commission, Chair of the City of San Diego Ethics Advisory Board (the predecessor to the City’s Ethics Commission), and service on the Del Mar Fair Board. He also has participated in a number of youth-related charitable activities. In addition to serving on the HLSA Executive Committee, Mr. Eaton currently sits on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Courts and Community Committee and the board of the San Diego History Center.

For most of his legal career, Dan has appeared regularly as a legal analyst on San Diego TV and radio.

LaKeytria W. Felder ’04 LaKeytria W. Felder has been an Assistant Federal Public Defender since 2009, first in the District of Maryland and now in the Eastern District of New York. She has represented indigent persons in every facet of federal criminal litigation from investigation through appeal. Previously, Ms. Felder was a pro bono fellow at Holland & Knight in Washington, DC. In that capacity, her practice focused on 1983 civil rights cases on behalf of prisoners and juvenile pretrial detainees. Those cases challenged unconstitutional conditions of confinement, inadequate medical and mental healthcare, and excessive use of force. After law school, LaKeytria clerked for the Honorable Petrese B. Tucker in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania followed by private practice in New York at Shearman & Sterling.

Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. ’73 Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., is President and Chief Executive Officer of TIAA, the leading provider of retirement services in the academic, research, medical, and cultural fields and a Fortune 100 financial services organization.

Mr. Ferguson is the former Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System. He represented the Federal Reserve on several international policy groups and served on key Federal Reserve System committees, including Payment System Oversight, Reserve Bank Operations, and Supervision and Regulation. As the only Governor in Washington, DC on 9/11, he led the Fed’s initial response to the terrorist attacks, taking actions that kept the US financial system functioning while reassuring the global financial community that the US economy would not be paralyzed.

Prior to joining TIAA in April 2008, Mr. Ferguson was head of financial services for Swiss Re, Chairman of Swiss Re America Holding Corporation, and a member of the company’s executive committee. From 1984 to 1997, he was an Associate and Partner at McKinsey & Company. He began his career as an attorney at the New York City office of Davis Polk & Wardwell.

Mr. Ferguson is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and co-chairs its Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education. He serves on the boards of General Mills and International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. and on the advisory board of Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP.

He is Chairman of The Conference Board and a member of the Business-Higher Education Forum’s Executive Committee. He serves on the boards of the American Council of Life Insurers, the Institute for Advanced Study, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and the Partnership for New York City. He is a member of the Economic Club of New York, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Group of Thirty. 8

Mr. Ferguson served on President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness as well as its predecessor, the Economic Recovery Advisory Board, and he co-chaired the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on the Long- Run Macro-Economic Effects of the Aging US Population.

Mr. Ferguson holds a BA, JD, and a PhD in economics, all from Harvard University.

Patrice Alexander Ficklin ’91 Patrice Alexander Ficklin has served as Fair Lending Director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since May 2011. As Fair Lending Director, Ms. Ficklin leads the CFPB’s efforts to ensure fair, equitable and nondiscriminatory access to credit for consumers and communities. Her responsibilities include oversight and enforcement of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), the federal law that prohibits discrimination in any aspect of a credit transaction, as it pertains to the activities of the bank and nonbank institutions under the CFPB’s jurisdiction.

Prior to her appointment, Ms. Ficklin was Counsel to the civil rights law firm of Relman, Dane & Colfax. There she supported the work of civil rights groups and also helped mortgage lenders and servicers ensure their compliance with the Fair Housing Act and ECOA. Prior to joining the Relman firm, Ms. Ficklin served as Associate General Counsel on Fannie Mae’s fair lending team, where she advised clients in the single family business and credit policy divisions on predatory lending, fair lending and fair housing issues, and worked to extend mortgage credit to thin- and no-file borrowers.

During her tenure at the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (now WilmerHale) Ms. Ficklin practiced in the corporate transactions and employment law groups, and co-authored a Supreme Court amici brief on behalf of several prominent civil rights organizations in Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peña, a major affirmative action case. Finally, she served as an arbitrator of ECOA claims made by Black farmers in Pigford v. Glickman, a class action lawsuit against the US Department of Agriculture. As a Pigford arbitrator, she presided over mini-trials and ruled on several farmers’ claims of discrimination in the Department’s lending programs, awarding monetary damages.

Ms. Ficklin is a graduate of Georgetown University and the Harvard Law School.

Arlene J. Ford ’87 Dr. Arlene Ford is a "reformed" lawyer who works as an independent researcher and education reform consultant. She works with educators and educational organizations engaged in school reform efforts to support lasting and transformational change. She does this by providing equity coaching and on-site learning opportunities aimed at deepening understanding of the systemic inequalities surrounding education and encouraging school practices and policies that seek to educate students in equitable ways. Before joining the education field, Arlene worked as a senior corporate associate at Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York City. In addition to her law degree from Harvard Law School, Arlene obtained a Masters in sociology and education from Teacher’s College at Columbia University and later received her doctorate degree in Urban Schooling from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).

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Kenneth C. Frazier ’78 Kenneth C. Frazier is Chairman and CEO of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ. Prior to his current role, Ken held a broad range of senior management positions with the global biopharmaceutical company, including General Counsel. Before joining Merck in 1992, Ken was a partner with the Philadelphia law firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath. He sits on the boards of PhRMA, Weill Cornell Medicine, Exxon Mobil Corporation and Cornerstone Christian Academy in Philadelphia, PA. He also is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the President’s Export Council, The Business Council, the Council of the American Law Institute and the American Bar Association. In addition to his Harvard Law education, Ken holds a bachelor’s degree from The Pennsylvania State University.

Karen Freeman-Wilson ’85 Karen Freeman-Wilson has been the Mayor of her hometown of Gary, Indiana since January 2012. Mayor Freeman-Wilson is the first female to lead the “Steel City” and the first African- American female mayor in the state of Indiana.

Mayor Freeman-Wilson has served in the public arena most of her professional life. She was previously the Indiana Attorney General, the Director of the Indiana Civil Rights Commission and the presiding judge of the Gary City Court. She was also a leader in the national drug court movement having served as the CEO of the National Association of Drug Court Professionals and Executive Director of the National Drug Court Institute.

Freeman-Wilson is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. Freeman-Wilson has been honored by the White House of Drug Control Policy, Governors of Indiana and various organizations throughout the United States.

A champion for children, seniors, the disabled and those suffering from addiction to alcohol and other drugs, Mayor Freeman-Wilson quickly attributes the signs of progress in Gary to the efforts of “Team Gary”, which includes city staff, members of other branches of government at the federal, state and local levels and those in the corporate, educational and non-profit arena who have joined the effort to rebuild the city of Gary.

Mayor Freeman-Wilson is active with the US Conference of Mayors and the National League of Cities and is honored to serve as co-chair of a committee with each organization. She is chair of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Police Chiefs on Community Policing. Mayor Freeman-Wilson and her husband Carmen Wilson, II have a blended family of four children.

Jocelyn C. Frye ’88 Jocelyn Frye is a Senior Fellow at American Progress, where her work focuses on a wide range of women’s issues, including work-family balance, pay equity, and women’s leadership. Prior to joining American Progress, Ms. Frye served for four years as deputy assistant to the president and director of policy and special projects for the first lady, where she oversaw the broad issue portfolio of the first lady, with a particular focus on women, families, and engagement with the greater Washington, DC community.

Before joining the Obama administration, Ms. Frye served as general counsel at the National Partnership for Women & Families, where she concentrated on employment and gender- discrimination issues, with a particular emphasis on equal-employment-enforcement efforts and employment barriers facing women of color and low-income women. During her 15-year tenure at the National Partnership, she testified before Congress and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on federal enforcement of employment-discrimination laws and analyzed the effectiveness of federal equal-employment-enforcement efforts. Prior to her work at the National Partnership, she worked for four years as an associate at Crowell & Moring, a 10

Washington, DC law firm, concentrating in the white-collar crime-practice area. Ms. Frye received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, and she is a proud native of Washington, DC.

Aminu Gamawa LL.M. ’10, S.J.D ’16 Dr. Aminu Gamawa is a world-class legal and dispute resolution trainer and practitioner who helps individuals, businesses and organizations resolve disputes. He applies a collaborative approach in providing creative solutions to complex and sensitive disputes, while assisting clients who face barriers in managing relationships to create or structure deals that reach a mutually satisfactory settlement.

He also provides legal and policy advice to wide range of organizations across private and public sectors, including corporations, government agencies, educational institutions, and nonprofit entities. He is a regular commentator on Voice of America, the BBC, CCTV and Aljazeera on legal and international affairs.

Dr. Gamawa is a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. He is a partner at Collaborative Development Partners (CDP), a global consulting firm, and an editorial board member of the newspaper, Premium Times.

Dr. Gamawa holds both a Doctor of Juridical Science and a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School, an LLB from the University of Maiduguri in Nigeria, and a BL from Nigerian Law School, in Lagos. He was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard’s Department of African and African-American Studies.

Haben Girma ’13 White House Champion of Change and Forbes 30 under 30 leader, Haben Girma is an accessibility & inclusion advocate. The first Deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School, Haben champions equal access to information for people with disabilities, earning her recognition from President Barack Obama and President Bill Clinton. After law school she worked as a Skadden Fellow at Disability Rights Advocates where she helped achieve a legal victory in National Federation of the Blind v. Scribd, the second case to hold that the Americans with Disabilities Act applies to e-commerce. She now works as an educator providing trainings and presentations around the world to advance the civil rights of people with disabilities. Haben lives in Berkeley, California.

Calvin Gladney ’97 Calvin Gladney is a real estate entrepreneur, professional speaker, author and professor who occasionally mentions he went to Harvard Law School when he forgets that he is a fully- recovered attorney who no longer practices. Mr. Gladney is the founding partner of Mosaic Urban Partners, a real estate investment and consulting firm which helps revitalize urban neighborhoods around the country. He is also a co-author of From Finals to the Firm: The Top 10 Things New Associates Should Know (West/Thompson Reuters). He has learned a lot during his journey from Latham & Watkins law firm associate to multi-faceted entrepreneur, and has channeled those experiences into a new professional development platform for law students and lawyers called Happier Better Lawyer. The mission of Happier Better Lawyer is to teach law students and lawyers how to leverage the mindset and tools of entrepreneurs to be, well, happier and better lawyers.

In past lives that he mentions only in bios, Mr. Gladney was the General Counsel of BRIDGE Housing, a private developer in San Francisco, CA, Senior Development Director and Counsel at the National Capital Revitalization Corporation (NCRC), a quasi-public DC real estate corporation, and also spent four years of his life as a hard-working

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Mr. Gladney graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, received his BS from Cornell University and is a LEED Accredited Professional. He is a Trustee of the Urban Land Institute. Mr. Gladney also serves as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's Masters in Real Estate Program where he teaches a graduate-level class on real estate entrepreneurship. In his spare time Mr. Gladney…Mr. Gladney doesn’t have any spare time.

Jeremiah Gordon ’03 Jeremiah Gordon is the General Counsel of Google Capital. He manages legal and regulatory affairs for Google Capital and is involved in all aspects of Google Capital, including fund formation, deal execution and portfolio management. Prior to Google Capital, Mr. Gordon served as a senior counsel at Google where he worked with Google’s corporate development team on acquisitions, investments and special projects. Jeremiah holds an AB in Economics from Princeton University and a JD from Harvard Law School.

Faith Rivers James ’90 Faith Rivers James ’90 serves as Associate Dean for Experiential Learning and Leadership, and Professor of Law at Elon University School of Law, where she teaches courses in property, nonprofit organizations, and legislation, as well as courses in law and leadership. Rivers James is an expert on preservation of African American property ownership in the Southeastern region. Her research on heirs’ property has been cited in many scholarly articles, treatistes, casebooks, and statutes. Through collaborations with the Coastal Community Foundation and the Ford Foundation, Rivers James was instrumental in the creation of the Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation in Charleston, S.C. Rivers James served on the American Bar Association Property Preservation Task Force and served as an observer to the Uniform Law Commission committee that drafted the Uniform Partition of Heirs’ Property Act.

After graduating from Harvard Law, Rivers James practiced as a legislative attorney in the Washington, D.C. office of Akin Gump Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP. She entered public service to serve as Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor to the Majority Leader of the United States Congress, and later served as Executive Director of the South Carolina Bar Foundation. During her tenure, Rivers James served as president of the National Association of IOLTA Programs, and co-chaired the ABA’s Task Force on IOLTA. She served on the board of the National Conference of Bar Foundations, and was appointed to serve on the Legal Services Corporation’s Task Forces on Rural Legal Services, State Planning, and Diversity. Rivers James is a graduate of Dartmouth College, where she majored in Government and Sociology, and Harvard Law School.

Nicole Y. Lamb-Hale ’91 The Honorable Nicole Y. Lamb-Hale is a Managing Director of Kroll, Inc., the leading global provider of risk solutions. In this capacity, she advises global clients on strategies to identify, remediate, and manage enterprise risk. Prior to joining Kroll, Nicole was a Senior Vice President of Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategy firm, where she developed and executed market access strategies for companies seeking to expand their sales of goods and services around the world. In 2009, Ms. Lamb-Hale joined the Obama Administration in which she first served as Deputy General Counsel for the US Department of Commerce. In 2010, she was nominated by President Obama and unanimously confirmed by the US Senate 12 to serve as the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Manufacturing and Services in the International Trade Administration. As Assistant Secretary of Commerce, she regularly led US business delegations on international trade and trade policy missions during which she promoted exports of US goods and services and negotiated with senior foreign government officials to eliminate trade barriers to US exports. Prior to her government service, Ms. Lamb-Hale was a Partner in the international law firm of Foley & Lardner LLP, where she counseled corporate clients in significant business transactions including out of court restructurings and bankruptcy. In addition to her client work, Nicole served as the Managing Partner of the firm’s Detroit office. In addition to her JD from Harvard Law School, Nicole holds an AB with high honors in political science from the University of Michigan where she studied in the Honors College.

Allegra Lawrence-Hardy Allegra Lawrence-Hardy focuses her practice on Business and Commercial Litigation and Labor and Employment. She has successfully defended Fortune 100 companies throughout the United States and abroad in numerous trials, arbitrations and other forms of alternative dispute resolution. Allegra is a fellow in the Litigation Counsel of America, which is an invitation-only trial lawyer honorary society and represents less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers. Fellows are selected based upon excellence and accomplishments in litigation, trial work and superior ethical reputation.

Allegra is a graduate of Yale Law School and is a member of its Executive Committee. She received her undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from Spelman College.

Additional highlights of Allegra’s achievements include: recognized by Chambers USA: Guide to Leading Business Lawyers; repeatedly named to The Best Lawyers in America; selected for inclusion among The Black Lawyers “Top 100”; named to the “Rainmakers” list by Diversity & the Bar; repeatedly selected for inclusion in Georgia Super Lawyers® “Top 50 Female Georgia Super Lawyers” and “Top 100 Georgia Super Lawyers.”

Karen M. Hardwick ’88 Karen Hardwick is General Counsel of the University of the District of Columbia (UDC). She brings to UDC her nearly 30-year proven track record of solving complex legal problems for both public and private enterprises.

Karen served most recently as the City Attorney and General Counsel for the City of Annapolis, Maryland, an historic municipal corporation with a $99 million operating budget and $88 million capital improvement program. As an active member of the mayoral cabinet during her tenure, she helped the city leadership manage changes in city governance, labor and employment, public finance, public works and related legal matters and disputes.

Earlier in her career, Ms. Hardwick was named the Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the District of Columbia’s Anacostia Waterfront Development Corporation. Working for the quasi-public enterprise in those capacities, she led the negotiations of an array of complex corporate transactions, crafted optimal legal solutions to mitigate high-stakes policy and operating risks, and provided integral legal and policy support to the board of directors.

Karen launched her legal career as an associate at Hogan and Hartson (now Hogan Lovells), where she was distinguished as the firm’s first African-American woman to rise up through the ranks to be promoted into equity partnership. Her practice at Hogan focused on high-stakes commercial litigation and complex investigations for companies in the commercial real estate, technology and insurance industries.

As Ms. Hardwick rose to prominence in the District of Columbia legal community, she was tapped by the mayor to join

13 the board of directors for the National Capital Revitalization Corporation (NCRC) and, eventually, appointed to serve as board chair. Under Karen’s leadership, NCRC spearheaded a number of iconic economic development initiatives in the District, including the award-winning revitalization of the Columbia Heights neighborhood. As a result of her success with NCRC, she was honored with awards from the District of Columbia Chamber of Commerce and the DC Building Industry Association.

Throughout her career, Ms. Hardwick has been a visible leader of the business community and not-for-profit initiatives. She has served as Vice-Chair of the Board of the District of Columbia Chamber of Commerce, as programmatic co- chair for Leadership Greater Washington, and Vice-Chair of the National Black Child Development Institute. Karen continues almost a decade of service as Vice-President of the Washington Children’s Foundation, a not-for-profit organization focused on preventing child abuse and funding wrap-around services for victims of child abuse.

Karen is a 1988 graduate of the Harvard Law School and a 1985 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Engineering. She lives with her husband Adrian Gardner ’88 in the District of Columbia and Annapolis, MD and has served several terms on the Vestry of Washington’s oldest church, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Rock Creek Parish.

David J. Harris David J. Harris is the Managing Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School. In addition to his overall management of the Houston Institute, David has been involved in the institute’s programmatic activities, including formulation and promotion of the community justice approach to public safety and the Houston Marshall Plan for Community Justice. Prior to assuming this position he served as founding Executive Director of the Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston, where he established himself as a leader in fair housing and equity issues. He previously served as a fair housing investigator with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, before which he was a Civil Rights Analyst with the US Commission on Civil Rights, both in Washington, DC, and the New England Regional Office. He holds a PhD in sociology from Harvard University, and a BA from Georgetown University. David serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations, currently chairs the Massachusetts Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights.

Andrea C. James Andrea James is the Founder and Executive Director of Families for Justice as Healing, a founding member of the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, a 2015 Soros Justice Fellow, and the author of Upper Bunkies Unite: And Other Thoughts On the Politics of Mass Incarceration.

Andrea worked within the criminal justice system for more than 25 years, from her days as a youth worker to her work as a criminal defense attorney. In 2009 she was sentenced to serve a 24-month federal prison sentence. After a lifetime of work seeking justice on behalf of disenfranchised people, she was stunned at what she encountered upon entering the federal prison system as an incarcerated person and uses her experience to raise awareness of the effect of incarceration of women on children and communities, and to shift from a criminal legal system to a system focusing on human justice.

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Alan Jenkins ’89 Alan Jenkins is Executive Director of The Opportunity Agenda, a communications, research, and policy organization dedicated to building the national will to expand opportunity in America. Before joining The Opportunity Agenda, Alan was Director of Human Rights at the Ford Foundation, managing grant making in the United States and eleven overseas regions. His prior positions include Assistant to the Solicitor General at the US Department of Justice, where he represented the United States government in constitutional and other litigation before the US Supreme Court, and Associate Counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where he defended the rights of low- income communities facing exploitation and discrimination.

Alan's other positions have included Assistant Adjunct Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Law Clerk to US District Court Judge Robert L. Carter, and Coordinator of the Access to Justice Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. He is a frequent commentator in broadcast and print media, including MSNBC, CNN, the New York Times and the Huffington Post.

Alan serves on the Board of Trustees of New York Public Radio, on the Board of Governors of the New School for Public Engagement, and as an Advisor to the JPB Foundation. He is a Founding Co-Chair of the American Constitution Society's Project on the Constitution in the Twenty-First Century. Alan holds a JD from Harvard Law School, an MA in Media Studies from the New School University, and a AB in Psychology and Social Relations from Harvard College.

Channing D. Johnson ’75 Channing Johnson focuses his practice on corporate and securities matters, with a concentration in the media, technology, entertainment and hospitality sectors. Mr. Johnson represents public and private companies in a variety of industries, including music, film and television production and distribution, animation, manufacturing, retail (clothing, food and beverage), internet commerce, software and investment banking. Mr. Johnson has extensive experience advising entertainment and media clients. His entertainment and media clients are involved with all modes of distribution (broadcast, cable, broadband, theatrical and internet), and seek legal advice in connection with the issuance of securities, mergers and acquisitions, joint venture and financing agreements, production agreements, distribution agreements, affiliate carriage agreements, publishing and co-publishing agreements, production deals, endorsements, co-branding and sponsorship deals, and talent contracts. Mr. Johnson has significant experience representing superstar recording artists in worldwide touring agreements, including handling all legal matters relating to one of the largest international tours ever produced. He also regularly represents successful independent film and television production companies, music publishers, and record companies with respect to their day-to-day legal needs, financings and strategic acquisitions.

Whitney Fogle Lewis ’12 Whitney Fogle Lewis received her AB, cum laude, in psychology from Harvard College, and her JD from Harvard Law School. She began her law practice at Skadden (NYC) with a focus on mergers and acquisitions in the healthcare and pharmaceutical space before transitioning in- house as an associate counsel at Carlson Capital LP, a Dallas-based hedge fund. At Carlson, in addition to helping resolve the full gamut of general issues the legal department faces, Whitney is responsible for coordinating counterparty relationships and negotiating the documents that govern them; assisting the London office; managing intellectual property issues; and addressing a variety of labor and employment matters. Whitney was named a 2015

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Corporate Counsel Awards Finalist by D CEO Magazine and the DFW chapter of the Association for Corporate Counsel and was selected for the 2016 class of 40 Under 40 by the Dallas Business Journal.

Debra L. Lee ’80 Debra L. Lee is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BET Networks, a unit of Viacom Inc. and the leading provider of entertainment for the African-American audience and consumers of Black culture globally. Ms. Lee oversees one of the most influential multiplatform media companies in the world, including several cable television networks and digital offerings.

BET Networks is committed to providing its audience with quality entertainment that speaks to where they are in their lives and where they want to go. Under her leadership, Ms. Lee has led the company’s successful reinvigorated brand and successful programming vision that has created hits such as, Real Husbands of Hollywood, Being Mary Jane, BET Awards, Black Girls Rock!, BET Honors, Sunday Best, and many more. Ms. Lee’s vision for BET’s reinvigorated approach is built on supporting families, embracing and encouraging their dreams, and focusing on the issues that are important to them.

In September 2009, Ms. Lee managed the launch of Centric, a 24-hour music and entertainment network. Under her leadership, Centric was rebranded in 2014 as the first network designed for Black women. She also oversees the company’s current growth initiatives, including international distribution of the brand in Canada, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom, France, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa.

Prior to her being named Chairman and CEO, Ms. Lee was President and Chief Operating Officer of BET Networks for almost 10 years, during which she guided the company to consistent increases in viewership, revenue and earnings. She first joined BET as Vice President and General Counsel in 1986 after serving more than five years as an attorney with Washington, DC-based Steptoe & Johnson, a corporate law firm. Prior to that, she served as a law clerk to the late Honorable Barrington Parker of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia

Named one of The Hollywood Reporter’s 100 Most Powerful Women in Entertainment, Ms. Lee’s achievements in a 25-plus year career at BET Networks have earned her numerous accolades from across the cable industry, as well as recognition as one of this country’s most respected business executives. Ms. Lee was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame, the Washington Business Hall of Fame, and was honored with the Distinguished Leadership Vanguard Award by the National Cable & Telecommunications Association. She also serves on the corporate board of directors of Revlon, Marriott and Washington Gas & Light. Her business acumen and strategic approach to management make Ms. Lee a popular speaker and lecturer on a range of business topics.

Ms. Lee earned her JD at Harvard Law School, while simultaneously earning a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government. She graduated from Brown University with a bachelor’s degree in political science with an emphasis in Asian politics. She is a member of the Board of Trustees for Brown University and was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters from the University in May, 2014. She resides in Washington, DC.

Andrew Lindsay ’06 Andrew Lindsay currently serves as the VP of Corporate Development at Jawbone, a venture- backed consumer electronics and wearable products company. Prior to this role, Andrew advised clients on corporate strategy as a consultant for McKinsey & Company and on corporate transactions as a member of Merrill Lynch's mergers and acquisitions team. Andrew is the Chair of TechSF, the city's technology workforce development initiative, and is

16 a member of the Workforce Investment San Francisco Board. Andrew earned a law degree at Harvard Law School, an MBA at Harvard Business School and a BS in Biology from Howard University.

Loretta E. Lynch ’84 Loretta E. Lynch was sworn in as the 83rd Attorney General of the United States by Vice President Joe Biden on April 27, 2015. President Barack Obama announced his intention to nominate Ms. Lynch on November 8, 2014.

Ms. Lynch received her AB, cum laude, from Harvard College in 1981, and her JD from Harvard Law School in 1984. In 1990, after a period in private practice, Ms. Lynch joined the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York—the city she considers her adopted home. There, she forged an impressive career prosecuting cases involving narcotics, violent crimes, public corruption, and civil rights. In one notable instance, she served on the prosecution team in the high-profile civil rights case of Abner Louima, the Haitian immigrant who was sexually assaulted by uniformed police officers in a Brooklyn police precinct in 1997.

In 1999, President Clinton appointed her to lead the office as United States Attorney—a post she held until 2001. In 2002, she joined Hogan & Hartson LLP (now Hogan Lovells) as a partner in the firm’s New York office. While in private practice, Ms. Lynch performed extensive pro bono work for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, established to prosecute those responsible for human rights violations in the 1994 genocide in that country. As Special Counsel to the Tribunal, she was responsible for investigating allegations of witness tampering and false testimony.

In 2010, President Obama asked Ms. Lynch to resume her leadership of the United States Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn. Under her direction, the office successfully prosecuted numerous corrupt public officials, terrorists, cybercriminals and human traffickers, among other important cases.

Ms. Lynch is the daughter of Lorenzo and Lorine Lynch of Durham, N.C., a retired minister and a librarian whose commitment to justice and public service has been the inspiration for her life’s work.

Ms. Lynch enjoys spending her free time with her husband, Stephen Hargrove, and their two children.

Kenneth W. Mack ’91 Kenneth W. Mack is the inaugural Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of History at Harvard University. He is the co-faculty leader of the Harvard Law School Program on Law and History. During the 2015-16 year, he also served as co-faculty leader of the Workshop on the History of Capitalism in the Americas at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American history. His research and teaching have focused on American legal and constitutional history with particular emphasis on race relations, politics and economic life. His 2012 book, Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer (Harvard University Press), was selected as a Top 50 Non-fiction Book of the Year by the Washington Post, was a National Book Festival Selection, was awarded honorable mention for the J. Willard Hurst Award by the Law and Society Association, and was a finalist for the Julia Ward Howe Book Award. His is also the co- editor of The New Black: What Has Changed – And What Has Not – With Race in America (New Press, 2013). His articles have been published in a wide variety of scholarly and general interest publications. He is currently working on a book project that examines the social and political history of race and political economy in the United States after 1975.

He began his professional career as an electrical engineer at Bell Laboratories before turning to law and history. Before joining the faculty at Harvard Law School, he clerked for the Honorable Robert L. Carter, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and practiced law in the Washington, DC office of the firm Covington & Burling. 17

Leo S. Mackay, Jr. Leo S. Mackay, Jr., is Senior Vice President, Internal Audit, Ethics and Sustainability, and an elected corporate officer, of Lockheed Martin Corporation. He is an independent director of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation, a $40B leading global supplier of business and IT services, and strategic advisor to Pegasus Capital Advisors, a private equity fund focused on sustainability and wellness. He was previously Vice President of Corporate Business Development and President of ICGS, LLC, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. Dr. Mackay served as Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs from 2001- 2003 receiving the Exceptional Service Medal, the VA’s highest honor, for his service. From 1993 to 1995 he was military assistant to current Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, who was then the Assistant Secretary of Defense - International Security Policy. Dr. Mackay is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Aspen Strategy Group. A Secretary of the Navy Distinguished Graduate of the US Naval Academy, he is a former naval aviator (F-14 pilot, Navy Fighter Weapons School [Topgun] graduate), and a veteran of Operation Earnest Will. He earned a master's degree, and a PhD, in public policy from Harvard University where he was a Harvard MacArthur Scholar and Kennedy Fellow.

Debra Martin Chase ’81 Debra Martin Chase is an Emmy nominated and Peabody Award winning television and motion picture producer whose company, Martin Chase Productions, was affiliated with the Walt Disney from 2001 to 2016. She was the first African American female producer to have a deal at a major studio.

She has produced three beloved multi-film franchises: The Princess Diaries, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and The Cheetah Girls. The Princess Diaries and its hit sequel jointly grossed over $300 million in worldwide box office receipts and launched the movie career of actress Anne Hathaway. According to Variety, the first Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants was one of the best reviewed movies of 2005 and began the career of another young actress, Blake Lively. The soundtrack for The Cheetah Girls, which Ms. Chase also executive produced, went double platinum. Its first sequel was the most watched movie debut in the history of the Disney Channel and the singing group had one of the most successful US concert tours of the 2006-2007 season. Her other motion picture producing credits include Sparkle, a dramatic musical starring Jordin Sparks and the late Whitney Houston; Just Wright starring Queen Latifah and Common, which won the 2011 NAACP Image Award for Best Screenplay; Courage Under Fire starring Denzel Washington; and the perennial holiday favorite, The Preacher’s Wife starring Washington and Houston. Her television credits include the Emmy winning Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella with Brandy Norwood and Houston; the Lifetime Television series Missing, which had the most watched series debut in the network’s history; the Disney Channel’s original musical Lemonade Mouth, which featured a number one Billboard soundtrack that Ms. Chase executive produced; and the Oscar and Emmy nominated and Peabody Award winning documentary Hank Aaron: Chasing The Dream. She has also produced five movies in her partnership with Mattel’s American Girl Company and Universal Home Entertainment which have aired on either NBC or The Disney Channel.

Ms. Chase's new romantic sitcom Zoe Ever After starring Grammy Award winning musician/actress Brandy Norwood premiered on BET in January 2016 and has been picked up for a second season.

Ms. Chase was the motion picture and television producing partner of Whitney Houston in BrownHouse Productions from 1995 to 2000. She ran Mundy Lane Entertainment, Denzel Washington’s production company, from 1992 to 1995.

Ms. Chase graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude from Mount Holyoke College and the Harvard Law School. In 2007, she received an honorary Doctorate of Arts from Mount Holyoke and is a member of its Board of Trustees. She 18 also serves on the boards of the New York City Ballet and the Second Stage Theatre in Manhattan. She is a Fellow at the Harvard University iLab. For the past six years, she has co-chaired the Athena Film Festival in New York City, a collaboration between Barnard College and Women and Hollywood. Ms. Chase is also a member of both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Among her numerous awards and honors, in 2007, 2008 and 2009, Ebony Magazine named Ms. Chase one of the 150 Most Influential African Americans in America. In December 2012, Black Enterprise Magazine named her one of the Ten Most Bankable African American Movie Producers in Hollywood based upon worldwide box office, the only woman on the list. In 2013, she was awarded the Entertainment Award by the Trumpet Awards Foundation for her career achievements. In 2015, she was similarly honored by the African American Film Critics’ Association with its Ashley Boone Award.

Zola Mashariki ’97 Zola Mashariki is currently Executive Vice President and Head of Original Programming at BET Networks in Los Angeles, where she oversees original programming for both BET and CENTRIC Networks. Prior to BET Networks, Zola was Senior Vice President of Production at Fox Searchlight Pictures.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Ms. Mashariki is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School. During her tenure at Harvard, she worked as a research assistant to the late Judge A. Leon Higginbotham and was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard College and Harvard Law School with Professors Cornel West and Roberto Unger.

After law school, Zola practiced corporate law at Proskauer Rose LLP in New York and Manatt, Phelps and Phillips LLP in Los Angeles. She also worked with the late playwright August Wilson and co-founded the African Grove Institute for the Arts (AGIA), the first national black theatre organization.

In 1999, Ms. Mashariki moved to Los Angeles to attend the Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California, where she produced her first film in Cameroon, West Africa.

In 2010, Zola joined the faculty of the University of Southern California and in her “free time,” she teaches an Advanced Producing course to the graduate film students.

Ms. Mashariki has been responsible for a number of feature films, including John Madden’s The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (nominated for 2 Golden Globes and a BAFTA), as well as the sequel The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene (nominated for 4 Independent Spirit Awards), Mike Cahill’s Another Earth (nominated for 2 Independent Spirit Awards) and I Origins (Sundance award winner), Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go (British Independent Film Award winner), Sanaa Hamri’s Just Wright, Kevin MacDonald’s The Last King of Scotland (Academy Award winner, Golden Globe winner, BAFTA winner), George Tillman’s Notorious, Gina Prince- Bythewood’s The Secret Life of Bees, Tamara Jenkins’ The Savages (nominated for 2 Academy Awards), Mira Nair's The Namesake (nominated for 2 Independent Spirit Awards), Pieter Jan Brugge’s The Clearing, Jim Sheridan's In America (nominated for 3 Academy Awards, 3 Golden Globes, and an Independent Spirit Award winner), James Ivory's Le Divorce, Denzel Washington's Antwone Fisher (Independent Spirit Award winner) and Rick Famyiwa’s Brown Sugar.Zola has been on the cover of Black Enterprise magazine and The Hollywood Reporter. She has been featured in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Essence, Ebony, Jet, Variety, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine and Savoy. Among her many honors, she was included in the Hollywood Reporter’s prestigious “Next Gen” list, as well as Black Enterprise’s “40 under 40”. Most recently, she received the Delta Sigma Theta “Impact” award, the 2014 Special Achievement award from the African-American Film Critics Association, and the 2014 Mosaic Woman Trailblazer award. She is also on Ebony magazine’s 2014 “Power 100” list.

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Tracy B. McKibben ’94 Tracy B. McKibben is an international energy and clean technology expert with 20+ years of experience in the energy sector, including a 15+ years focusing on the areas of alternative and renewable energy, clean technology, water, infrastructure and sustainability management. Tracy is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MAC Energy Advisors LLC, an investment and consulting company that provides integrated energy solutions to help clients with investments and strategic opportunities across a global platform. Tracy advises multinational corporations and financial institutions on strategic investments and capital investment structuring in the alternative energy, renewable energy, clean technology, water and energy efficiency sectors. Tracy has also acquired, developed and financed 200+ MW of global renewable energy assets. Tracy has extensive transactional experience ranging from mergers and acquisitions, business development, valuation and deal structuring, financial strategy, sustainability metrics, and public policy analysis.

Tracy started her finance career in 2007 at Citigroup Global Markets as Managing Director and Head of Environmental Banking Strategy advising alternative and renewable energy companies and diversified multinational corporations on strategic investments, US and international energy policies and environmental financing alternatives. She was a Member of Citigroup's Alternative Energy Task Force and the Carbon Task Force. Tracy’s public sector experience includes working in several senior level positions including at the White House at the National Security Council as Senior Director of European Affairs and Director of European Economic Affairs and EU Relations. Tracy also worked at the US Department of Commerce where her positions included Special Counsel for International Trade and Investments, as well as Director and Executive Secretariat in the Office of the Secretary of Commerce. Prior to her work in the public sector, Tracy practiced law at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP representing and advising clients on commercial and complex litigation matters, as well as corporate and multinational energy clients on strategic investments globally.

Tracy has served on a number of public and private/nonprofit boards. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Ecolab Inc. (ECL), Imation (IMN), USAA, the New York Power Authority, and Geostellar. Tracy is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a non-partisan organization exploring public policy and corporate interactions across the globe. She has spoken at various international conferences on issues such as renewable energy, water/energy nexus, clean technology and innovation, as well as a United Nations conference on sustainability management. Tracy received her BA from West Virginia State University and JD from Harvard Law School.

Ron D. McCray ’83 Ron McCray is the former Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of Career Education Corp. He is a private investor and corporate director.

Mr. McCray serves on the governing boards of A. H. Belo, Corp., Cornell University, Harvard Law School, the International African American Museum, Jazz at Lincoln Center and Jazz Artists of Charleston. Ron was nominated by President Obama to the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, the world's largest defined contribution plan with over $400 billion in assets and 4 million participants, and was confirmed by the US Senate in 2011.

Ron also is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Boston Celtics ownership group, and previously served on the boards of Knight Ridder, Inc., KC de Mexico, SA de CV and EveryWare Global, Inc.

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Ron practiced corporate, securities and finance law at global law firms upon graduation. He then joined Kimberly-Clark Corporation, a global health and hygiene company, where he served as Senior Vice President – law and government affairs, and Chief Compliance Officer.

Ron served as Chief Administrative Officer for Nike, Inc., a sports shoe and apparel company, with responsibility for strategic leadership and for oversight of various businesses and administrative functions.

Ron graduated from Cornell University, where he set school and meet records in track and field, earned dean’s list honors, led student organizations, and was named to honor societies his junior and senior years. He also graduated from the Harvard Law School, where he served as the editor and business manager of the Harvard Civil Rights/Civil Liberties Law Review.

Martha Minow Martha Minow is the Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School where she has taught since 1981. An expert in human rights with a focus on members of racial and religious minorities and women, children, and persons with disabilities, her scholarship also has addressed private military contractors, management of mass torts, transitional justice, and law, culture, and social change. She has published over 150 articles and her books include In Brown’s Wake: Legacies of America’s Educational Landmark (2010); Partners, Not Rivals, Privatization and the Public Good (2002); and Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence (1998); she is co-editor of law school casebooks on civil procedure, and on gender and the law. She has delivered more than 75 named or endowed lectures and keynote addresses.

Following nomination by President Obama and confirmation by the Senate, she serves as vice-chair of the board of the Legal Services Corporation. She previously chaired the board of directors for the Revson Foundation (New York) and now serves on the board of the MacArthur Foundation, and other nonprofit organizations. She is a former member of the board of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, the Covenant Foundation, the Iranian Human Rights Documentation Center, and former chair of the Scholar’s Board of Facing History and Ourselves.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Michigan and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Minow received her law degree at Yale Law School before serving as a law clerk to Judge David Bazelon and Justice Thurgood Marshall. A member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, her awards include the Sacks-Freund Teaching Award; the Holocaust Center Award; the Radcliffe Graduate Society Medal; Trinity College History Society Gold Medal; and eight honorary doctorates.

ReNika C. Moore ’03 ReNika Moore is an advocate for racial and economic justice. She is currently Deputy Bureau Chief of the Labor Bureau in the New York Attorney General’s Office. As Deputy Bureau Chief she supervises the Bureau’s civil enforcement of New York’s labor laws and its representation of New York State in various appeals affecting workers, including workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance, and prevailing wage compliance. The NY AG’s Labor Bureau has been nationally recognized for enforcing labor standards in low-wage industries, such as food services, car washing, and construction.

Prior to this role, Ms. Moore supervised and coordinated the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s economic justice litigation, public education, and public policy efforts. Ms. Moore litigated high-impact racial justice cases tackling a variety of civil rights issues, including criminal background checks in employment, discrimination in major federal housing programs, and environmental racism. For example, Ms. Moore was lead counsel for LDF in Cogdell v. Wet Seal, which resulted in a $7.5 million settlement that also provided for numerous compensation, promotion, 21 and personnel changes to ensure fairness and opportunity for current and future African-American retail workers. She served as a faculty member in the Shriver Center’s inaugural Racial Justice Training Institute for legal aid and legal services attorneys from around the country. Before joining LDF, Ms. Moore worked with the employment law firm Outten & Golden advocating for the rights of workers who had been unlawfully discriminated against or had been unlawfully denied their earned wages. Ms. Moore began her career clerking for accomplished civil rights litigator, the late Honorable Robert L. Carter in the US District Court of the Southern District of New York. Ms. Moore received her JD from Harvard Law School and AB from Harvard College cum laude.

Ory Okolloh ’05 Ory Okolloh is currently a director of investments at Omidyar Network Africa, a philanthropic investment firm. Prior to joining Omidyar Network, Ory was Google's Policy Manager for Sub-Saharan Africa. Previously, Ory was at the forefront of developing technology innovation as a founding member of Ushahidi. She served as the organization's executive director from inception until December 2010. Ory is also the co-founder of Mzalendo, a website that tracks the performance of Kenyan Members of Parliament. She is a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, a member of the World Bank's Council of Eminent persons, an advisory board member of Amnesty International, East Africa and a member of the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program selection committee. In 2015 she was appointed to the Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company Board.

Ory earned a JD from Harvard Law School and graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Pittsburgh. In 2010, Ory was named one of the top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy Magaine and in 2011 Ory was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, and one of Africa's most Powerful Women by Forbes Magazine. In 2014 she was named Time 100's most influential people in the world. She lives in Nairobi with her husband and 3 children.

Spencer A. Overton ’93 Spencer Overton is the fourth President of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. The Joint Center--founded in 1970 as a think tank to support black elected officials-- faced a fiscal crisis when Spencer became the leader in early 2014. Spencer spent 18 months resolving these challenges. The Joint Center is now debt-free and growing, and under Spencer's leadership has restarted programming. The Joint Center now supports innovative elected officials of color and policy experts who focus on communities of color

Spencer is also a tenured Professor of Law at George Washington University, where he teaches and writes on voting rights. He is the author of the book Stealing Democracy: The New Politics of Voter Suppression and several academic articles on democracy. While serving on the 2005 Jimmy Carter-James Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform, Spencer helped establish the contours for current debates over voting restrictions with his dissent from the Commission's photo ID recommendation. As a member of the 2005- 06 Commission on Presidential Nomination Scheduling and Timing, Spencer led an effort that resulted in Iowa restoring voting rights to 98,000 Iowans who had completed their sentences. He also worked with the Commission's chairs to move more diverse states (South Carolina and Nevada) to prominent positions in the presidential primary election calendar, and since 2008 these states have played pivotal roles in the presidential selection process.

Spencer held several positions on the Obama campaigns, transition, and administration. For the 2008 campaign he chaired government reform policy, and during the 2012 campaign he had several leadership roles on the National Finance Committee. At the beginning of the Obama Administration Spencer served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Policy, the "think tank" of the Department of Justice that develops and coordinates policy and regulations and leads the Department's efforts in the selection and confirmation of federal judges. 22

In that position, he led a task force that developed the Attorney General's reentry reform priorities (which have since been implemented), and partnered with White House officials to lead the Administration's policy efforts related to the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, and many other areas.

Spencer received his BA from Hampton University, and he clerked for US Court of Appeals Judge Damon J. Keith.

Warrington S. Parker ’89 Warrington S. Parker, a partner in Orrick's San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices, is a member of the White Collar & Corporate Investigations group. Mr. Parker's practice focuses on the representation of defendants and plaintiffs in litigation matters and appeals, including criminal matters, trade secrets misappropriation and commercial disputes. He also has argued numerous cases before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and California Court of Appeal. From 1992 to 1996, Mr. Parker was Assistant United States Attorney for the United States Attorney's Office, Central District of California, Criminal Division in Los Angeles.

Natosha Reid Rice ’97 Natosha Reid Rice currently serves as the Associate General Counsel for Real Estate and Finance at Habitat for Humanity International where she initiates and manages financing programs and strategies to generate sources of capital that enable Habitat affiliates to provide decent, affordable housing to families throughout the country. In addition to her work at Habitat, Natosha also serves as an Associate Pastor, Women’s Ministries at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia and founder of Fresh Rain for Life Ministries, a non-denominational ministry that provides a “sanctuary for women in the midst of life” through worship services, retreats, bible studies, workshops, and mission outreach.

Prior to joining Habitat, Natosha practiced law in the commercial real estate practices of Alston & Bird LLP, in Atlanta, Georgia and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison in New York City. While at these firms, she specialized in commercial real estate development transactions, acquisitions, dispositions and leasing.

Natosha is passionate about providing a voice to the voiceless and opportunities to communities that have been historically disadvantaged. She is a frequent speaker and facilitator for community/civic organizations, churches, colleges and corporate events on topics such as the intersection of faith and justice, race and gender justice, leadership development and community empowerment. In addition, Natosha is a past Board Chair for Georgia Women for a Change and currently serves on the boards of the YWCA of Greater Atlanta and Invest Atlanta’s Atlanta Emerging Markets, Inc. which is a community development entity that seeks to spur job creation, economic development and neighborhood revitalization in under-served parts of the City of Atlanta. She has been actively involved in efforts to pass legislation and policy to protect victims of human sex trafficking in Georgia and provide for a fair workplace for women.

Natosha has received recognition and several awards for her work and leadership in the community. Recent honors include the YWCA Academy of Women Achievers, the Circle of Friends Pearl Award and the Church Women United (Atlanta Unit) Outstanding Young Woman. Natosha was also a member of the Leadership Atlanta Class of 2014.

Natosha received her JD from Harvard Law School and her BA in Government with honors from Harvard/Radcliffe College where she was a Harvard/Radcliffe Class Marshall and awarded the Captain Jonathan Fay Prize (Radcliffe’s Highest Honor) and the E.P. Saltonstall Prize. Natosha lives in metro Atlanta with her husband Corey Rice and their children, Kayla, Malachi and Caleb.

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April Reign April Reign practiced law for over twenty years, honing her talent for public speaking and persuasive writing, but it wasn't until she walked away from her legal practice that she found her true passion. Now, as Managing Editor of BroadwayBlack.com and Editor at Large of NU Tribe Magazine, Reign is able to capitalize on her strengths and pursue her calling, using her voice to spark dialogue and explore issues of race, politics and culture.

As the Creator of the viral hashtag #OscarsSoWhite, April Reign challenges the lack of representation of marginalized communities in Hollywood and beyond. Reaching out to her engaged network of over 25,000 digital media followers worldwide, Reign sustains a movement that has resulted in the most systemic change ever seen in the over 80-year history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. April Reign owned her opportunity, the results of which are reverberating throughout the entertainment industry.

Reign is an influential and sought-after digital media presence, having built an organic following of over 25,000 worldwide. April Reign now travels the country speaking at academic institutions.

Christopher P. Reynolds ’86 Chris Reynolds is a Managing Officer of Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC). As a Managing Officer of the global automaker, Reynolds functions as General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer, responsible for all legal matters of the company in its design, manufacturing and sales operations worldwide including litigation, regulatory, transactional and legal compliance matters. Reynolds also serves as TMC's Deputy Chief Officer of the General Administrative & Human Resources Group. In that function, he is responsible for Human Resources matters related to "high potential" executives outside of Japan. As Chief Officer for the Governance Management Group, Reynolds is responsible for co-managing the governance practices of TMC.

Previously, Reynolds was General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer of Toyota Motor North America, the holding company of Toyota's North America operations, and before that Group Vice President, general counsel, chief environmental officer and corporate secretary of Toyota Motor Sales, USA (TMS), Inc., Toyota's sales and distribution arm in the United States.

Before joining TMS in 2007, Reynolds was a partner and trial lawyer at the law firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in New York City. While at the firm, Reynolds served as manager of the New York office's employment law group, a member of the firm's advisory board and chair of the firm's diversity committee.

Earlier, Reynolds served from 1989 to 1994 as an Assistant United States Attorney in the criminal division of the US Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York. Before his stint with the US Attorney’s Office, Reynolds worked from 1987 to 1989 as a litigation associate at the law firm of Hughes Hubbard & Reed in New York City, and as a law clerk for the Honorable Damon J. Keith, US Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit in Detroit, Michigan from 1986 to 1987.

Reynolds grew up amid the auto industry in Detroit as the son of a Ford Motor Company River Rouge plant worker and a registered nurse. He attended Detroit Public Schools and entered Kalamazoo College in 1979. In 1981, he was named a Harry S. Truman Scholar. After a junior year abroad at the Universite de Strasbourg in France, Reynolds received his 24 bachelor’s degree in political science with honors from Kalamazoo College and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1983. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1986.

Reynolds is a member of the American Bar Association and the National Bar Association. He serves as a trustee of Kalamazoo College and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Married with three children, he currently lives in the Los Angeles area.

Brooke J. Richie-Babbage ’03 Brooke Richie-Babbage is the Founder and Executive Director of the Resilience Advocacy Project (RAP), a New York City-based youth leadership organization working to empower youth to become leaders in the fight to end poverty. Brooke has over 15 years’ experience in the social justice arena. She has worked as an anti-poverty attorney and advocate for numerous organizations, including the National Center for Law and Economic Justice, the Children’s Defense Fund-NY, the Center for and Urban Future, and the Center for Law and Social Policy, and has taught the history of social welfare law and policy at Tufts University. In addition to serving as the ED at RAP, Brooke is also an Adjunct Professor at the Baruch School of Public Affairs, and she sits on the Board of Directors of the Community Resource Exchange and Forstdale, Inc. in NYC.

Brooke has been a speaker and presented papers at Harvard, NYU, Fordham, and Brooklyn Law Schools, and has published articles and presented papers at conferences and trainings throughout the country on child care policy, welfare law and policy, teen fathers and child support, social entrepreneurship, and youth empowerment methodology. She is a Harvard Law School Young Wasserstein Fellow, a recipient of the Skadden Fellowship, a finalist for the Echoing Green Social Innovation Fellowship, a former Chair of the Social Welfare Committee of the NYC Bar Association, and a CORO Leadership alumna. Brooke received both her JD and MPP from Harvard, and her BA from Yale.

Joyce M. Roché Joyce M. Roché is an author and former President and Chief Executive Officer of Girls Incorporated (a national nonprofit research, education, and advocacy organization in New York, New York). Prior to her role at Girls Inc. Ms. Roché was President and Chief Operating Officer of Carson, Inc. and held various senior marketing positions at Avon products, Inc., including Vice President of Global Marketing. Ms. Roché received her BA from Dillard University and earned her MBA from Columbia University. Ms. Roché serves as Lead Director of AT&T and Chairperson of the Human Resources Committee. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Macy’s Inc. where she chairs The Nominating and Governance and is a Director of Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc. and Tupperware Brands Corporation.

Daron K. Roberts ’07 Daron K. Roberts is the founding director of the Center for Sports Leadership & Innovation (CSLi) at the University of Texas. His pivot from Harvard Law School to NFL coach has been featured in ESPN the Magazine, Sports Illustrated and Bloomberg Businessweek.

As a faculty member in the Liberal Arts Honors Program at the University of Texas, Roberts teaches three courses: Leadership Strategy in Sports, Disruptive Innovation in Sports and Gameplan for Winning at Life. Roberts served coaching stints with the Kansas City Chiefs, Detroit Lions, Cleveland Browns and West Virginia Mountaineers.

He holds a BA in Plan II Honors and Government from the University of Texas, an MPP from Harvard Kennedy School and a JD from Harvard Law School.

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The Presidential Leadership Scholars Foundation – a joint venture between Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush – tabbed Roberts as a Presidential Leadership Scholar for 2015. He was one of 60 members selected for the inaugural class.

Roberts is the CEO and founder of 4th and 1, Inc. (4thand1.org). 4th and 1 offers free SAT prep, life skills development and football training to at-risk high school youth in Michigan, Texas and Florida. The camp has served nearly 500 students during the last six years.

Roberts has served as a contributor to TIME, Fortune, Forbes, Austin American-Statesman, Houston Chronicle, and Dallas Morning News.

Stephanie Robinson ’94 Stephanie Robinson is a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, a national media figure, author, former Chief Counsel to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and the President and CEO of The Jamestown Project, a national think tank focusing on democracy.

Between 2013 and 2014, Ms. Robinson hosted her own national radio show, Roundtable with Stephanie Robinson, a popular and weekly 30-minute, talk-radio program focused on culture, politics and relationships that aired on the Tavis Smiley Network.

For five years, between 2008 and 2013, Ms. Robinson was Political Commentator for the Tom Joyner Morning Show where she spoke to between 9 and 10 million people weekly, offering her perspective on the day’s most pressing social and political issues.

Ms. Robinson is a nationally recognized expert on issues relating to social policy, women, race, family, and electoral politics. She was featured as one of the 30 Young Leaders of the Future in Ebony Magazine and was profiled in the book As I Am: Young African American Women in a Critical Age, by Julian Okwu. She is a frequent speaker expressing her views in countless media outlets including the Associated Press, The Washington Post, C-Span, NPR, The Baltimore Sun, CN8, and Fox News. As a political and legal analyst, Ms. Robinson has spoken on a wide variety of topics including faith and policy, international conflict, race and society, political participation and voting trends of African Americans and women.

Ms. Robinson, a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Maryland and the Harvard Law School, is a native of Steubenville, Ohio. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and two sons. She, along with Harvard Law Professor and husband, Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., are the first black Faculty Deans in the history of Harvard University.

Kim K.W. Rucker ’93 Kim Rucker is the Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary of Tesoro Corporation, a Fortune 100 company that is an independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products. There she is a member of the Executive Leadership Team responsible for executing the strategic direction for the Company. She is directly responsible for providing effective advice and counsel to the Board and its committees, officers and business leaders.

Kim serves on the Board of Directors of Lennox International Inc., a $3.5 billion global leader in the heating, air conditioning and refrigeration markets. She also is a member of the Board of Trustees of Johns Hopkins Medicine, a $6 billion nonprofit which includes Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins International.

Prior to joining Tesoro in 2016, Kim was the Executive Vice President, Corporate and Legal Affairs, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, for Kraft Foods Group, Inc. (now The Kraft-Heinz Company). During her tenure, the 26 company had a market cap of approximately $32 billion. Its iconic brands include Kraft, Maxwell House, Oscar Mayer, Philadelphia, Planters, Velveeta, Capri Sun, Lunchables and JELL-O.

Prior to joining Kraft, Ms. Rucker held the position of Senior Vice President, for Avon Products Inc. Before that she was the Senior Vice President, for Energy Future Holdings Corp., in Dallas, Texas, and also worked as a partner at the Chicago office of Sidley Austin LLP.

In addition to her Harvard Law School degree, she earned a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She received her BA with highest honors in Economics from the University of Iowa in 1989, and was also named a Harry S. Truman Scholar.

Kim has received numerous accolades for her achievements, and has been interviewed and noted in publications in the legal, corporate governance and compliance areas. She is a sought-after speaker on a variety of topics including corporate governance, corporate reputation, leadership, ethics and compliance and managing for value.

Ms. Rucker was born and raised in the Chicago area, and now lives in the San Antonio with her husband and two children.

Congresswoman Terri A. Sewell ’92 Congresswoman Terri A. Sewell is serving her third term as the US Representative of Alabama’s 7th Congressional District. She is one of the first women elected to Congress from Alabama in her own right and is the first black woman to ever serve in the Alabama Congressional delegation.

Congresswoman Sewell sits on the House Committee on Financial Services and the distinguished House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence charged with the oversight of our national security. She is the Ranking Member on the Subcommittee on the Department of Defense Intelligence and Overhead Architecture, a key subcommittee on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

In her short time in Congress, Sewell has held several leadership positions, including Freshman Class President in the 112th Congress. This term, she was selected by Democratic leadership to serve as a Chief Deputy Whip, and sits on the prestigious Steering and Policy Committee which sets the policy direction of the Democratic Caucus. Congresswoman Sewell is also a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.

A proud product of Alabama’s rural Black Belt, Congresswoman Sewell was the first black valedictorian of Selma High School. She is an honors graduate of Princeton University and Oxford University in England and received her law degree from Harvard Law School.

Rob Simmelkjaer ’97 Rob Simmelkjaer has served as Senior Vice President of NBC Sports Ventures since September of 2011. NBC Sports Ventures is a division of NBC Sports Group, which forms joint venture partnerships and makes minority investments in a wide variety of sports-related businesses.

In addition to his position as Senior Vice President, NBC Sports Ventures, Mr. Simmelkjaer serves as an on-air contributor across multiple NBCUniversal platforms, including NBC Sports, NBCSN, NBC Sports Radio, NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC. He anchored MSNBC’s coverage of the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics.

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Prior to joining NBC, Mr. Simmelkjaer served in a variety of roles at ESPN from 2003-2011. Prior to his tenure at ESPN, Simmelkjaer practiced law at two New York firms, Weil, Gotshal and Manges from 2000-2001, and Cravath, Swaine & Moore from 1997-2000.

Mr. Simmelkjaer joined the board of directors of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) in 2016. CSGV is Washington, DC based 501(c)(4) organization that was founded in 1974. It seeks to secure freedom from gun violence through research, strategic engagement and effective policy advocacy. Simmelkjaer also serves on the board of directors of the Child Center of NY, and is a member of the Zoning Board of Appeals in Westport, CT.

Mr. Simmelkjaer is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School. He is a native of Haworth, NJ. He currently lives in Connecticut.

Bryan Stevenson ’85 Bryan Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama. Mr. Stevenson is a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor, the incarcerated and the condemned. Under his leadership, EJI has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent death row prisoners, confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill and aiding children prosecuted as adults. Mr. Stevenson has successfully argued several cases in the United States Supreme Court and recently won an historic ruling in the US Supreme Court banning mandatory life-without-parole sentences for all children 17 or younger are unconstitutional.

EJI has also initiated major new anti-poverty and anti-discrimination efforts challenging the legacy of racial inequality in America. Mr. Stevenson’s work fighting poverty and challenging racial discrimination in the criminal justice system has won him numerous awards including the ABA Wisdom Award for Public Service, the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Award Prize, the Olaf Palme International Prize, the ACLU National Medal Of Liberty, the National Public Interest Lawyer of the Year Award, the Gruber Prize for International Justice and the Ford Foundation Visionaries Award.

In 2015, he was named to the Time 100 recognizing the world’s most influential people. Recently, he was named in Fortune’s 2016 World’s Greatest Leaders list. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and the Harvard School of Government, has been awarded 26 honorary doctorate degrees and is also a Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law. He is the recent author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Just Mercy, which was named by Time Magazine as one of the 10 best books of nonfiction for 2014 and has been awarded several honors including the Carnegie Medal by the American Library Association for the best nonfiction book of 2014 and a 2015 NAACP Image Award.

Carter M. Stewart ’97 Carter Stewart is a Managing Director at Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation. He supports investment selection, builds portfolio support, cultivates fund development and drives strategic and operational leadership. Stewart comes to Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation from the US Department of Justice where he served as the presidentially-appointed United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio. In this role, Stewart was responsible for prosecuting federal crime in a district comprised of 5.5 million people, which included Columbus, Cincinnati, and Dayton. Stewart also served on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee and chaired the Attorney General’s Child Exploitation Working Group. Stewart previously served as an Assistant US Attorney in San Jose, CA, and he was a litigator at Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP in Columbus, OH and Bingham McCutchen LLP in San Francisco, CA.

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Prior to law school, Stewart was a New York City Urban Fellow and then taught history at Friends Seminary High School and in the Prep for Prep program. Stewart received a JD degree from Harvard Law School in 1997. He holds a Master of Arts Degree in Education Policy from Columbia University and received his undergraduate degree in Political Science from Stanford University. After law school, Stewart clerked for the Honorable Robert L. Carter, US District Judge in the Southern District of New York and the Honorable Raymond L. Finch, US District Court Judge for the District of the Virgin Islands.

David Strickland ’93 A partner in Venable’s Regulatory Group, David Strickland has significant federal government and private experience and focuses his practice on transportation policy, consumer protection, Internet privacy, data security, and legislative and government affairs. He draws on his experience as former Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration where he led high-profile investigations of companies in the sector, including investigations regarding violations of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act that resulted in record fines being issued by the agency. Prior to his position as the country’s top automotive safety official, he served as the Democratic Senior Counsel on the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation where he played an important role in conducting investigations and inquiries of companies in connection with consumer protection issues and commercial practices, including the 2002 Enron inquiry concerning the company’s bankruptcy and business practices.

Ronald S. Sullivan ’94 Professor Sullivan is a leading theorist in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, trial practice and techniques, legal ethics, and race theory. He is the faculty director of the Harvard Criminal Justice Institute and the Harvard Trial Advocacy Workshop. Professor Sullivan also serves as Master of Winthrop House at Harvard College. He is the first African American ever appointed Master in Harvard's history. He is a founding member and Senior Fellow of the Jamestown Project.

Professor Sullivan has merged legal theory and practice over the course of his career in unique and cutting-edge ways.

In 2014, Professor Sullivan was tasked to design and implement a Conviction Review Unit (“CRU”) for the newly elected Brooklyn District Attorney. The CRU, designed to identify and exonerate wrongfully convicted persons, quickly became regarded as the model conviction integrity program in the nation. In its first year of operation alone, Professor Sullivan discovered over 10 wrongful convictions, which the DA ultimately vacated. Some of the exonerated citizens had served more than 30 years in prison before they were released.

In 2008, Professor Sullivan served as Chair, Criminal Justice Advisory Committee for then-Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. In this capacity, Professor Sullivan’s committee made policy recommendations on a range of issues in an effort to put into practice some of the best research in the field. He also served as a member of the National Legal Advisory Group for the Barack Obama Presidential Campaign. Finally, Professor Sullivan was appointed Advisor to the Department of Justice Presidential Transition Team.

In 2007, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Professor Sullivan was asked to create a system to solve a criminal justice crisis. Over 6000 citizens were incarcerated in and around New Orleans without representation and with all official records destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Professor Sullivan designed an indigent defense delivery system that resulted in the release of nearly all the 6000 inmates.

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In 1994, Professor Sullivan was a visiting scholar for the Law Society of Kenya, where he sat on a committee charged with drafting a new constitution for Kenya. He also worked with the Kenyan Human Rights Commission on monitoring and challenging human rights abuses.

Prior to joining Harvard’s faculty, Professor Sullivan was on the Yale Law School faculty where he won the award for outstanding teaching after his first year. Before joining the legal academy, he served as the Director of the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. He also spent several years in private practice in two major Washington, D.C. law firms where he specialized in white-collar criminal defense and complex commercial litigation.

Professor Sullivan still maintains an appellate and trial practice. He has represented persons ranging from politicians to professional athletes to recording artists to pro bono clients in criminal jeopardy. Representative clients include: The family of Micheal Brown; Former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez; The family of Usaamah Rahim.

Professor Sullivan has provided legal commentary for CNN, FoxNews, PBS, and all the major networks. He has been quoted in the nation’s leading newspapers and periodicals, and he has testified before the United States Senate and House of Representatives on numerous occasions.

Professor Sullivan is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Morehouse College and the Harvard Law School. Where he served as President of the Harvard Black Law Students Association and as General Editor of the Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal.

Jeff H. Tignor Jeffrey H. Tignor is Special Counsel in the Broadband Division of the Wireless Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission. Jeffrey develops rules for spectrum auctions, including for the first-of-its-kind Incentive Auction. Concurrent with his tenure at the FCC, from 2012- 14, Jeffrey was a Fellow at Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) and a contributor to Freedom-to-Tinker (CITP’s blog), where he discussed civic participation and engagement in diverse communities. Previously, but also concurrent with his FCC tenure, Jeffrey was elected Chairman of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 4B in Washington, DC. Prior to joining the FCC, Jeffrey was an Associate and Member of the Hiring Committee at Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky. Jeffrey graduated from Harvard College and the Duke University School of Law. Jeffrey currently serves on the Board of Harvard Club of Washington, DC, where he is co- chair of the Schools Committee.

Kristin Turner ’17 Kristin Turner ’17 is the President of the Harvard Black Law Students Association. A 2012 graduate of the University of Southern California, Kristin majored in Political Science and Spanish. She later returned to her hometown and alma mater to teach Spanish at St. John's College High School in Washington, DC. At the Law School, Ms. Turner has been an active member of Harvard Defenders and HLS Parody. Last year, she chaired HBLSA's Leadership and Mentorship Program (LAMP), where she continued her passion for inspiring and coaching high school-aged students in achieving their goals. This past summer, Kristin was a Summer Associate at White & Case LLP in Palo Alto, CA and plans to return to the San Francisco Bay Area after graduation.

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Mayor Sylvester Turner ’80 Mayor Sylvester Turner was elected Mayor of Houston on December 12, 2015, to serve a four year term beginning January 4, 2016.

Sylvester Turner was born and raised in the Acres Homes community in northwest Houston. His parents moved to Acres Homes in 1954, the year Sylvester was born.

Sylvester’s mother worked as a maid in the old Rice Hotel in Houston. His father worked as a painter for Continental Ensco and cut yards with his sons on the weekends to make extra money. The Turners raised nine children in their modest two-bedroom home in Acres Homes. Sylvester lost his father to cancer when he was 13 years old. Afterward, his mother took over the Turner household. Although she never finished high school or learned to drive, she ensured her children got an education and inspired them to achieve.

Sylvester attended neighborhood public schools until forced integration came to Houston and he was bused to Klein High School. After a predictably rocky start, the student body adapted to its new enrollees – and Sylvester was later elected president of the student body and graduated as valedictorian.

Sylvester graduated from the University of Houston and Harvard Law School before joining the law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski. He later founded the Houston law firm of Barnes & Turner in 1983.

In 1988, Sylvester was elected to the Texas House of Representatives to serve the people of House District 139 in Northwest Houston. He served until his election as mayor, working on the House Appropriations Committee for 21 years and serving as Speaker Pro Tem for three terms. He was appointed to several Budget Conference Committees to help balance the state’s budget and served on the Legislative Budget Board.

He is very proud of his daughter Ashley, who is continuing the Turner family tradition of public service in the healthcare field.

Rory E. Verrett ’95 Rory E. Verrett is a principal at The Raben Group and leads the firm’s Sports Practice. Raben's Sports Practice is committed to helping organizations which traditionally operate in the sports arena - as well those whose interests intersect with the sports sector - to develop innovative solutions which promote fairness, equity, and integrity within sports. Rory is also a leader in the firm’s Inclusion practice, which helps corporations, foundations and advocacy organizations develop strategies and implement solutions which increase diversity and inclusion within their organizations.

Rory most recently served as vice president of public affairs at the National Football League, where he was responsible for creating partnerships with leading advocacy organizations. Prior to that role, Rory served as the NFL’s first ever head of talent management, where he developed initiatives to help diversify senior management at league headquarters and within the front offices of the 32 NFL clubs.

Prior to the NFL, Rory worked in the diversity and public policy practices at Spencer Stuart, a leading executive search firm, where he recruited senior leaders for clients such as the NFL, the U.S. Olympic Committee, The New York Times, Harvard University, and other leading organizations. He began his career in executive search at Russell Reynolds Associates. Rory was formerly CEO of Diversiplex, a public affairs consulting firm with offices in Atlanta and New

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Orleans. Rory began his career as legislative counsel to a Member of Congress and later served as senior counsel for governmental affairs for Entergy, a Fortune 500 utility corporation in New Orleans.

Rory serves on the advisory board of Mentoring USA and Auburn Avenue Films.

Rory is a 1995 graduate of Harvard Law School, where he served as class marshal, and Howard University, where he was an elected student member of the Board of Trustees and a Harry S. Truman Scholar.

Rory is also host and producer of the critically acclaimed podcast, Protégé. Protégé Podcast provides the insightful career advice, powerful inspiration and unvarnished truth you need to pursue and fulfill the career of your dreams. Rory interviews guest mentors from media, sports, entertainment, technology and law, as well as dynamic entrepreneurs and artists who share their career insights with the protégés/listeners.

A native of New Orleans, Rory lives in the Washington, D.C. area with his wife, Tamara, and daughter, Jordan.

Frances Cudjoe Waters ’96 Frances Cudjoe Waters is an Associate Pastor at Hamilton Park United Methodist Church in Dallas, TX and a blogger for the Huffington Post. She is a highly-sought after preacher; an insightful, spirit filled writer, an adept media entrepreneur and a highly-regarded Strategic Planner. Rev. Waters graduated with Honors from Stanford University and Harvard Law School and has pursued theological studies at Brite Divinity School. She combines faith, intellect and media in dynamic, innovative ways that result in new vision for ministry; personal and spiritual transformation; as well as strategic planning and practical theology.

Cecil R. Webster, Jr., MD Cecil Webster is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist in private practice in Boston’s Back Bay with an academic appointment at Harvard Medical School (HMS), and Cambridge Health Alliance. A Morehouse College graduate, Dr. Webster completed his Chief Residency in general psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, and a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Harvard Medical School. He is a former Diversity Leadership Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, as well as a former American Psychoanalytic Association Fellow. With an avid interest in supporting the needs of ethnic minorities in educational pipelines, Dr. Webster maintains a consultant practice working with educational administrators and students in constructive responses to racial animus, how to address equity more fully, and transforming difficult moments into important conversations for institutions. Dr. Webster is a national presenter around racial minority needs in training programs and early professional settings, and the intersection of race, gender, and sexual identity in psychotherapy.

Theodore V. Wells, Jr. JD-MBA ’76 Ted Wells co-chairs the Litigation Department at Paul, Weiss and is widely recognized as one of the best trial lawyers in America. In 2010, The National Law Journal named Mr. Wells one of “The Decade’s Most Influential Lawyers” and in 2006, named Ted, “Lawyer of the Year.”

Chambers USA has noted that Mr. Wells “is considered by many to be ‘the best trial lawyer in the country.’” Some of Ted’s significant representations include the successful defense of a number of high profile clients: US Secretary of Agriculture Michael Espy; US Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan; US Senator Robert Torricelli; hedge fund manager Steven Cohen and SAC Capital Advisors; financier Michael Milken; Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the chief of staff to former

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Vice President Dick Cheney; and former New York Governors, Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson.

Ted is a 1976 graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School. He served as an editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and clerked for Judge John J. Gibbons on the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Active in social, political and community affairs, Ted is Chairman Emeritus of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Board of Directors, and he is a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation, the governing body of Harvard University.

Rev. Dr. Wesley S. Williams, Jr. ’67 The Rev. Dr. Wesley S. Williams, Jr., has had a lengthy and esteemed legal career as both a practicing attorney and a law professor since completing his JD from Harvard Law School in 1967. He has also earned a BA, magna cum laude, MA, an LLM, and a DMin degree.

He started as an instructor at Columbia University Law School, while commuting for a year and a half to work for the Washington Office of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and as counsel to the then newly-formed District of Columbia City Council. He spent a year and a half as legal counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the District of Columbia.

In the fall of 1970, Dr. Williams commenced his nearly 35 years (five as an associate and 30 as a partner) with the DC- based international law firm of Covington & Burling. Concurrently, he served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center.

He also served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and for more than 25 years as a member of the American Law Institute.

Wes Williams is the recipient honoris causa of the LLD degree from his parents’ alma mater, Virginia Union University, “for pioneering achievements in law, business, education, religion and community service.” Also, by command of the Sovereign Prior, Her Royal Britannic Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Wes Williams was dubbed a Knight of Grace (honorary) of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem “for sustained commitment to the ideals of the Order, in service to humankind.”

Dr. Williams has stayed involved with Harvard University over the years, including serving a six-year term as a member of the University’s Board of Overseers, and as chairman of the Overseers’ governance committees for Harvard Divinity School and for the University’s Memorial Church. In the 1980s, he served as an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Harvard University Alumni Association; and later, in the 1990s, he served as President of the Harvard Law School Association (world-wide). He also served on the governing boards for annual fund drives and capital campaigns for Harvard College, Harvard Law School, Harvard Divinity School, and Harvard University overall.

After his retirement from law practice in 2004, Wes Williams prepared for and was subsequently ordained to priesthood in The Episcopal Church. In this capacity he now serves as the Bishop of the Virgin Islands’ Sub-Dean for the islands of St. Thomas and St. John, as Priest-in-Charge of the Cathedral Church of All Saints and All Saints Cathedral School, and as Vicar of Nazareth By The Sea Episcopal Church - the Cathedral, its school, and Nazareth Church all located on St. Thomas.

Lastly, it bears noting that Wes Williams’s wife of 48 years, Karen Hastie Williams, Esq., until her retirement in 2010, served on the boards of several corporations including Fannie Mae, SunAmerica, Inc., and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board. Additionally, the Williamses have served on the boards of directors of two or more charitable foundations each.

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Professor David Wilkins ’80 Professor Wilkins is the Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession, and Faculty Director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a Fellow of the Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, and a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Professor Wilkins has written over 80 articles on the legal profession in leading scholarly journals and the popular press and is the co-author (along with his Harvard Law School colleague Andrew Kaufman) of one of the leading casebooks in the field. His current scholarly projects include Globalization, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies (where he directs over 50 researchers studying the impact of globalization on the market for legal services in rapidly developing countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe); After the JD (a ten-year nationwide longitudinal study of lawyers' careers); The Harvard Law School Career Study (examining, among other things, differences in the experiences of male and female graduates and the careers of lawyers who do not practice law); and The New Social Engineers (charting the historical development and current experiences of black lawyers in corporate law practice).

Professor Wilkins teaches several courses on lawyers including The Legal Profession, Legal Education for the Twenty- First Century, and Challenges of a General Counsel. In 2007, he co-founded Harvard Law School’s Executive Education Program, where he teaches in several courses including Leadership in Law Firms and Leadership in Corporate Counsel.

Professor Wilkins has given over 40 endowed lectures at universities around the world and is a frequent speaker at professional conferences and law firm and corporate retreats. His recent academic honors include the 2012 Honorary Doctorate in Law from Stockholm University in Sweden, the 2012 Distinguished Visiting Mentor Award from Australia National University, the 2012 Genest Fellowship from Osgoode Hall Law School, the 2010 American Bar Foundation Scholar of the Year Award, the 2009 J. Clay Smith Award from Howard University School of Law, and the 2008 Order of the Coif Distinguished Visitor Fellowship.

Paul S. Williams Paul Williams is a Partner in the Chicago office of Major, Lindsey & Africa, the largest legal recruiting firm in the nation. Paul graduated cum laude from Harvard in 1981 and received his JD from Yale Law School in 1984. A Fortune 500 public company director and a former chief legal officer and corporate secretary of a Fortune 20 company, Paul focuses on conducting in- house searches, particularly general counsel and other senior level positions.

Paul is a member of the board of directors of three public companies, each having a market cap exceeding $1 billion: Essendant, Inc., a Fortune 500 distributor of business products; Bob Evans Farms, Inc., the owner and operator of nearly 700 restaurants in the US; and Compass Minerals, Inc., a producer of salt and other inorganic mineral products. He currently is the Compensation Committee chairman for Bob Evans and Compass Minerals. He previously has served as the Lead Independent Director of State Auto Financial Corporation, a property and casualty insurance company, and retired from that board in 2015 after serving for 12 years. He has sat on numerous charitable and educational boards, including Physicians for Human Rights, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Arthritis Foundation, Buckeye Boys Ranch and Salesian Boys and Girls Club. He is a long-time member of the National Association of Corporate Directors.

Prior to joining Major, Lindsey & Africa, Paul served for several years as Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary of Cardinal Health, Inc., a Fortune 20 healthcare services company with $80 billion in revenues and 55,000 employees. Responsible for managing legal affairs globally, he also served as the co-chairman of the company’s Diversity Council. His 51-lawyer legal department was recognized for its outstanding diversity, receiving the Minority Corporate 34

Counsel Association’s ''Employer of Choice'' award. Paul has been recognized by two publications as one of the 100 most influential diverse lawyers in the nation.

His career began as a corporate and securities associate with the large law firms of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Southern California and Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease in Ohio. Paul also served as general counsel of a computer software company and group counsel for the dairy division of a multinational corporation.

Paul and his wife, Laura, who is also a lawyer, are the proud parents of two grown sons. In his spare time, Paul enjoys movies and physical fitness.

S. Reginald Williams ’95 S. Reginald Williams is the founder and CEO of Ambrosia For Heads (AFH), a Hip-Hop lifestyle digital media company that curates and creates content reaching more than 3 million people per month via its web site and social media platforms. Prior to AFH, Reggie was SVP of Programming, Music & Specials at BET Networks, where he set the overall programming and business strategy for the department and managed its day-to-day operations. Prior to BET, Reggie was the Chief Operating Officer of Desi Hits, a global digital media company that bridged the world between Western entertainment and Bollywood. Reggie also spent 7 years at MTV Networks in a number of positions that concluded with his role as the SVP of Music Strategy. Reggie also produced the 2006 HBO/Cinemax documentary, “Cutting Edge,” which depicted a day in the life of a Harlem barbershop. Prior to MTV, Reggie founded and was the CEO of nuRules.com, an urban lifestyle web site. Reggie began his career as a corporate attorney at Paul Hastings before transitioning into entertainment law. He graduated cum laude from Harvard College and earned his JD at Harvard Law School.

Benjamin F. Wilson ’76 Benjamin F. Wilson is the Managing Principal of Beveridge & Diamond PC of Washington, DC. He has been lead counsel in many complex environmental litigation and regulatory matters for major consumer products corporations, retailers, oil and gas companies, municipalities, and developers. He serves as the court-appointed Monitor for the Duke Energy coal ash spill remediation project, and previously served as lead counsel at the largest chromium site in the United States. Mr. Wilson has extensive experience with environmental justice representation.

He is also a recognized leader on diversity and inclusion in the legal profession, establishing the African American General Counsel and Managing Partners Network in 2012, and founding the Diverse Partners Network in 2008.

After graduating from Harvard Law School, Mr. Wilson worked at the Atlanta, GA law firm of King & Spalding, focusing on litigation and tax matters. He joined the Civil Division of the Department of Justice in 1979. At the Justice Department, he gained substantial trial expertise in commercial litigation matters, appearing on behalf of the government in the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the US Court of Claims and district courts throughout the United States. While at the department, he received two Special Achievement Awards in recognition of his performance. From 1983–1985, Mr. Wilson worked at Rose, Schmidt, Chapman, Duff and Hasley, focusing on civil litigation. He joined Beveridge & Diamond in 1986.

A tireless advocate for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession, in 2016, Mr. Wilson received the Charles Hamilton Houston Medallion of Merit from the Washington Bar Association and will receive the Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s Thurgood Marshall Legacy Award. Also in 2016, he received the Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet

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Council’s Extraordinary Service Award. Savoy Magazine named him to its list of the Most Influential Black Corporate Directors (2016) and Most Influential Black Lawyers (2015).

In 2014, he received the Spirit of Excellence Award from the American Bar Association (ABA) Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession, the Commission’s highest honor. In 2013, Mr. Wilson received the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources’ Dedication to Diversity and Justice Award. He was recognized by the National Bar Association Commercial Law Section with its coveted Outside Counsel Award for his excellent work and service on behalf of his clients, and his work promoting diversity in the profession.

In 2009, The Environmental Leadership Program’s (ELP) Mid-Atlantic Network honored the work of Mr. Wilson with “A Celebration of Leadership: Remembering Dr. King’s Environmental Legacy with Benjamin Wilson.”

Mr. Wilson serves on the Board of Directors of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, and on the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Environmental Law Institute, and was elected in 2014 to the Board of Governors of the District of Columbia Bar Association. He serves as an Adjunct Professor of Environmental Law at the Howard University School of Law and co-founded the Howard Energy and Environmental Law Society. He is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Maryland/DC Chapter of The Nature Conservancy.

Rowan D. Wilson ’84 Rowan D. Wilson is a partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, where he has been for 30 years, following a clerkship with Chief Judge James R. Browning of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Rowan’s practice in complex litigation includes antitrust and competition, intellectual property, contract, securities fraud, entertainment and media, and civil rights and employment matters. He has served for twenty years as Board Chair of the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, and is a member of the Board of Directors of Wide Horizons for Children. He has previously served on the Boards of Directors of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the National Center for Law and Economic Justice and The Constitution Works. Rowan presently oversees Cravath’s pro bono practice.

Kneeland Youngblood Kneeland Youngblood is a founding partner of Pharos Capital Group, a private equity firm that focuses on providing growth and expansion capital/buyouts in health care, business services and opportunistic investments.

He is a director of Energy Future Holdings Corp. (formerly TXU) and Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals. He is a former director of Burger King Corporation, Starwood Hotels and Lodging and Gap Inc.

Mr. Youngblood graduated from Princeton University with an AB in Politics/Science in Human Affairs and earned an MD from the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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