Meet thinkers, leaders, entertainers. Join workshops and discussion groups led by:

Cory McCray- Maryland General Assembly, Senator
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: Black Voices, Black Votes: A Discussion about Keeping Promises


Bill Fletcher Jr.- Author and activist
Keynote Speaker: The Time Has Long Since Come to Stop Blaming Ourselves for being Oppressed


Robin Williams- Director of Civil Rights, United Food and Commercial Workers Union
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: Black and Brown in the Workplace


Kwesi Chappin- Senior Political Director, Color of Change
Leading Workshop: Public Narrative


Dr. Kristee Haggins- Co-founder, Safe Black Space
Leading Workshop: Healing Circles and Safe Black Space


Jacqui Patterson- Director, NAACP Environmental and Climate Change Dept.
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: Green Jobs, Black Work


Erica Smiley- Executive Director, Jobs with Justice
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: LGBTQ and Black at Work


Neneki Lee- Director, Service Employees International Union
Co-Leading Workshop: I Am Not My Hair


William Pritchett- Principal, Pritchett & Associates
Leading Workshop: Deconstructing White Supremacy Culture in our Workplaces and Organizations


Dominic Moulden- Resource Organizer, One DC
Co-Leading Workshop: Making the Just City- Gentrification & Community Health


Chenjerai Kumanyika- Rutgers University Journalism Professor and award-winning podcaster
Leading Workshop: Podcasting Power: Using Podcasting to Amplify Hidden Histories, Contemporary Struggles and the Political Power of Black Worker Voices


Janel Bailey- Director, Los Angeles Black Worker Center
Leading Workshop: Economy Through a Black Lens


Lenora Knowles- Baltimore Black Workers Center
Co-Leading Workshops: Know Your Rights and Reversing Runaway Inequity


Carmen Berkeley- Senior Associate, Civitas Public Affairs Group, DJ
Co-Leading Workshop: How to Clap Back & Not Lose Your Job


Gioncarlo Valentine- Award Winning Photographer and Baltimore Native
Leading Workshop: Making Art While Black


Phela Townsend- Doctoral Student, Rutgers University
Co-Leading Workshop: Black Votes Matter


Lady Brion- International spoken word artist and Baltimore native
Opening Performer & Leading Workshop: From a Burning CVS to a Phoenix Rising


Alyxandra Goodwin, ACREResearch Analyst
Leading Workshops: Making Moves to Move Baltimore and
Workers, Women & Finance


Nzingha Hooker- Senior Attorney, National Employment Law Project
Co-Leading Workshop: Best Practices for Working Together


Rebecca Dixon- Chief of programs, National Employment Law Project
Co-Leading Workshop: Best Practices for Working Together


Serita El Amin- Organizer, One DC
Co-Leading Workshop: Making the Just City- Gentrification & Community Health


Yasmine Pauling- Political and Policy Fellow, The Sunrise Movement
Co-Leading Workshop: The New Green Deal


Aisha Satterwhite- Director, coworker.org
Leading Workshop: Dancing the Gig


Zaki Smith- The Next 100
Leading Workshop: The Silent Sentence


Sunu Chandy- Legal Director, National Women’s Law Center
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: LGBTQ and Black at Work


Neidi Dominguez- International Union of Painters and Allied Trades
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: Black and Brown in the Workplace


Joan Joans- Acting Director, National LGBTQ Workers Center
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: LGBTQ and Black at Work


Erika Symmonds- Director, Workforce Development, GRID Alternatives
Co-Leading Workshop: The New Green Deal and
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: Green Jobs, Black Work


Lester Spence- Author and Johns Hopkins Professor
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: Knocking the Hustle


Clair Watson-Minson- Workforce strategist, ABC
Co-Hosting Black Table Talk: Knocking the Hustle


Antwain Jordan- Baltimore Algebra Project
Leading Workshop: Young, Gifted, Black + Unemployed in Baltimore


Nakisha Lewis- AFL-CIO
Moderating Black Table Talk: Black Voices, Black Votes: A Discussion about Keeping Promises


Reena Doyle- California Teacher’s Association
Leading Workshop: Mitigating Your Blackness at Work: A Harmful Survival Technique


Destiney Lee- The Sunrise Movement
Co-Leading Workshop: The New Green Deal


Special Guests include:


Kevin Wilson Jr. – Academy Award nominated filmmaker
“My Nephew Emmett”
Black Film Festival: Director’s Q&A


Britni Joy Matila- Mrs. Maryland ABN 2019



Special Performances By:

Lethal Ladies of Baltimore- Leadership School for Young Women Step Team


Charisa the Violin Diva