Conference Speakers
Dr. Rochanda Mitchell, DO
Maternal Fetal Medicine/Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Virginia Hospital
Dr. Taison Bell, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Divisions of Infectious Diseases and International Health and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
University of Virginia Hospital
Dr. Cameron Webb, MD, JD
Hospitalist, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of Health Policy and Equity
University of Virginia
Rev. Dr. Francis Murphy Draper (b.k.a. Pastor Toni)
Publisher, Founding Pastor
The Afro Newspaper, Freedom Temple AME Zion Church
Dr. Elizabeth Primas
National Newspaper Publishers Association Program Manager on a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Education Awareness Grant
National Newspaper Publishers Association
Darlene Goins
Senior Vice President, Head of Financial Health Philanthropy Wells Fargo Foundation, Wells Fargo & Company
Wells Fargo & Company
Colin Topper Carew
Sounder of the Techquity Research Group and faculty fellow at the Innovation Lab at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia
MIT Media Lab
Charles W. Muse
General Motors Program Engineering Management Team for Autonomous Vehicles
General Motors
Calvin Anderson, President of Best Media Properties, Inc., Publisher of the New Tri-State Defender
President of Best Media Properties, Inc, and serves as the publisher of the New Tri-State Defender.
New Tri-State Defender
Jan-Michele Lemon Kearney, Esq.
President of Sesh Communications, Publisher of The Cincinnati Herald, The Northern Kentucky Herald, The Dayton Defender, seshPRIME Magazine, and PIX (News in Pictures), and hosts the annual Daddy-Daughter Dinner Dance, BRIGHT Awards, and the Nefertiti Awards.
Sesh Communications
BENJAMIN L. CRUMP, ESQ.
WINNER: NNPA 2020 FREEDOM-FIGHTING LEGAL ACHIEVEMENT
Founding Attorney, Ben Crump Trial Lawyers for Justice
ICE CUBE
WINNER: NNPA 2020 ARTIST OF THE CENTURY ICON AWARD
Founder and CEO of Big3 Basketball, Actor, Entrepreneur, Recording Artist, Screenwriter, Film Producer, Director
MC Lyte
WINNERS: NNPA 2020 LIFETIME LEADERSHIP AWARD
Recording Artist, Philanthropist, Actress, Entrepreneur
Representative Karen Bass (D-CA)
WINNER: NNPA 2020 OUTSTANDING CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP AWARD
Chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, United States Congress
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