9:00–9:30am Continental breakfast (provided)
9:30–10:15 Welcome and opening remarks
Marla Frederick, Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Religion and Public Life in Africa and the Americas. Professor of African and African American Studies and of Religion, Departments of Religion and African and African American Studies, Harvard University.
10:15–11:45 Panel I: Black Religious Institutions
Youssef Carter, College Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
Korie Edwards, Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University.
Walter Fluker, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Ethical Leadership. Director, Martin Luther King, Jr. Initiative for the Development of Ethical Leadership, Boston University School of Theology.
12:00–1:30pm Lunch break
1:30–3:00 Panel II: Black Business Institutions
Mehrsa Baradaran, Associate Dean for Strategic Initiative; Robert Cotten Alston Associate Chair in Corporate Law, University of Georgia School of Law.
Lucy Reuben Cole, Professor of the Practice of Business Administration, Duke University. Director, PhD Pipeline Opportunity Program. Curriculum Director, LEAD Summer Business Institute.
Juliet Walker, Professor of History, Department of History, The University of Texas, Austin.
3:00–3:15 Coffee break (provided)
3:15–4:45 Panel III: Black Educational Institutions
Crystal DeGregory, Associate Professor of History, Department of History. Director, Atwood Institute for Race, Education, and the Democratic Ideal, Kentucky State University.
Marybeth Gasman, Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor of Education. Director, Penn Center for Minority-Serving Institutions, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania.
Elizabeth Todd-Breland, Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, University of Illinois, Chicago.
John Silvanus Wilson, Senior Advisor and Strategist to the President, Harvard University. Former President, Morehouse College.
4:45–5:00 Break
5:00–5:30 Closing comments
5:30–6:30 Reception
Open to the public!
Marla Frederick, Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Religion and Public Life in Africa and the Americas. Professor of African and African American Studies and of Religion, Departments of Religion and African and African American Studies, Harvard University.
Ana Inoa
ainoa@fas.harvard.edu