Adriana Alves dos Santos Cruz is a Brazilian jurist,federal judge for the state of Rio de Janeiro . She is notable for becoming, in 1999, one of the first black federal judges in the country, and for having led several initiatives to promote human rights and racial equality in the Judiciary. Adriana graduated in Law …
Judge Carlos E. Moore, a Moss Point, Mississippi native, is the Managing Partner of The Cochran Firm – Mississippi Delta based in Grenada, Mississippi. In July of 2017, he was appointed as the first African-American Municipal Judge Pro Tem for the City of Clarksdale, Mississippi and in May of 2020 he was named the first …
Carla Parris is an Entertainment and Sports Lawyer with a Master’s degree in Entertainment & Intellectual Property Law. She is also a TED X 2018 Speaker, Web and TV Producer & CEO of an online educational services company Parris Productions Ltd. The company produces the Web & TV series The Business Of Carnival ®, an …
Beverley Agbakoba Onyejianya is a Sports, Entertainment & Tech lawyer and creator of a skills and personal development platform called ‘Develop Your A Game‘. She describes herself as a lawyer-preneur . She regularly advises a range of clients from techies, accelerator hubs, film directors, real estate, founders, SME’s ,sports clubs, sports associations, etc. Beverley also …
Bryan Stevenson is the Founder & Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a human rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama. 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. He …
Aissata M.B. Camara is the Deputy Commissioner for Policy & Strategic Initiatives and Chief of Staff in the NYC Mayor’s Office for International Affairs. In this role, she provides international policy guidance to NYC agencies. She also works to strengthen NYC’s strategic leadership on the global stage through partnerships and best practice sharing with local …
Adjoa Kyerematen is President, Ghana Diaspora, Public Affairs Collective. She has over a decade of strategic communications and public affairs experience, both on and off Capitol Hill. She is driven by the art and science of persuasive storytelling on what we should care about, why we should care, and what to do about it. She …
Achaleke Christian Leke serves as the African Union Youth Ambassador for Peace representing the Central African Region. He is a Multi-award-winning peace builder and violent extremism expert with 16 years of experience working as a practitioner, researcher and academic from Cameroon. He is also the Executive Director of a leading youth-led peace-building organization in Cameroon; …
Temwa Gondwe is seasoned trade and development economist. He leads African Export-Import Bank’s deployment of support towards the development of the creatives and cultural industries in Africa through various initiatives such as financing, capacity building, export and investment promotion, and policy advocacy. Prior to joining Afreximbank as Manager for Trade Facilitation in the Intra-African Trade …
Geovanny Vicente-Romero is a Dominican political strategist, lawyer, columnist, international consultant and university professor who teaches strategic communications at Columbia University as an associate lecturer. He specializes in public policy and public administration, and has several years of experience in the public sector, academics, and journalism. He writes a weekly column for CNN as a political …