Dr. Myrlie Evers-Williams
Honorary Chair

Dale Allender
Associate Executive Director,
National Council of Teachers of English

Patrick A. Buddington
Chief Marketing Officer, CaribZone Media

Richard Jones
Executive Dean, Accreditation, Quality Assurance and Institutional Effectiveness, Medgar Evers College, CUNY

Louise Mirrer
President and CEO, New York Historical Society

Richard Wesley
Playwright, Screenwriter,
Chair Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing, New York University

John Edgar Wideman
Writer, Distinguished Professor,
University of Massachusetts

Marcia White. President, Personalized Skincare

Schwannah Wright
Manager of Community Involvement, Brooklyn Museum of Art