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 …
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 …
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 …
Cynthia Chigwenya is an African Union’s Youth Ambassador for Southern Africa. She is also a political researcher and pracademic with experience in international policymaking. Her advocacy is grounded in research, having served at think tanks, and published on topical issues including, Europe-Africa relations, transcontinental infrastructure and climate finance in EMEs. Cynthia is a TEDx speaker, …
Dr. Succès Masra is the President of Les Transformateurs (“The Transformers” in English), a major opposition political party in Chad. He is a former Senior Economist at the African Development Bank (AfDB), and a former Senior Consultant at Ernst & Young Global Limited and BNP Paribas Bank Group (Paris, France). As Chad’s political, economic and …
Chido Cleopatra Mpemba currently serves as the African Union Youth Envoy, where her primary focus is to empower young people across the African continent. She works on amplifying youth voices and engaging them in advocacy and policy recommendations. One of the critical aspects of her work is advocating for the meaningful participation of young people …
António Braga Fazenda, is an Activist, Political Consultant and Social Entrepreneur. Co-founder and secretary of Institutional Affairs and Foreign Affairs of the Angolan Youth Parliament. He is passionate about Civic Leadership and has become a reference and voice of responsible leadership and social entrepreneurship because of its ability to meet the challenges of effectively meeting …