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Director, Center for Family History
Chief Development Officer
Bishop Claude R. Alexander, Jr., Bishop of The Park Church,
Charlotte, North Carolina
Ross A Appel, City of Charleston Councilmember (District 11)
William Barnet III, CEO of The Barnet Company and Barnet Development Company, Duke Endowment Trustee and Former Mayor of Spartanburg, South Carolina
Mayor Steve Benjamin, Mayor of Columbia, South Carolina
Robert E. Branan, CPA – Financial Manager
Peg Breen, President, The New York Landmarks Conservancy
Vernita Brown, Chief Executive Officer, Natalist
Dr. Tamara Butler, Executive Director of Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
Dr. Emory Campbell, Consultant of the Gullah Heritage Consulting Services
Evelyn McGee Colbert, President of the Montclair Film Festival Board of Trustees
Grady L. Crosby, Vice President Public Affairs, Chief Diversity Officer and President, Johnson Controls Foundation
Henry E. Darby, Member, Charleston County Council
Richard D. Elliot, Esq, Attorney, Former Chair,
Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce
Michael P. Gianoni, President & CEO of Blackbaud, Inc.
Anna Glass, Executive Director, Dance Theater of Harlem
Jonathan Green, Artist & Activist, Jonathan Green Studios, LLC
James Hairston, Director of Policy, Facebook Reality Labs
Rev. Dr. Isaac Holt, Pastor of Royal Missionary Baptist Church
Wilbur E. Johnson, Esq., Attorney & Managing Partner, Clement Rivers, LLP
William E. Kennard, Co-Founder and Chairman of Velocitas Partners LLC and Former United States Ambassador to the European Union
Melissa L. Lindler, Director, Office of Business Opportunities, City of Columbia, South Carolina
George S. Loening, Chairman & CEO of Select Equity Group LP
Erwin Maddrey, II, Former CEO & President of Delta Woodside Industries
Kent Matlock, Chairman and CEO of Matlock Advertising and Public Relations
Lenard McKelvey, Radio Host of “The Breakfast Club,” known as Charlamagne tha God
Rev. Kylon J. Middleton, Charleston County Council Councilman
(District 6)
Carolyn Murray, Co-anchor of WCBD Channel 2
Bernard E. Powers, Jr, Ph.D., Director, Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston
Joseph P. Riley, Jr., Lifetime Member of the Board, Former Mayor of Charleston, South Carolina
Katherine S. Robinson, Former President and CEO of Historic Charleston Foundation
Minor Mickel Shaw, President of Micco, LLC, Chairman of The Duke Endowment
Henry B. Smythe, Esq., Attorney, Womble Bond Dickinson
Halle Tecco, President, & Chief Women’s Health Officer, Natalist
Mayor John Tecklenburg, Mayor of Charleston, South Carolina
Keith Waring, Member, Charleston City Council Financial Planner
Heather Andrew Williams, Ph.D., Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Department of Africana Studies – University of Pennsylvania
Dennis W. Archer, Served on Michigan Supreme Court, former Mayor of Detroit, 1st African American President of American Bar Association
Jeanne Moutoussamy Ashe, Arthur Ashe’s widow, photographer
Bruce Babbitt, Former United States Secretary of Interior and Governor of Arizona
David Beasley, Former South Carolina Representative and Governor of South Carolina, Chairman-Center for Global Strategies
Lonnie Bunch, 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Founding Director-Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture
James Clyburn, United States Representative, 1st African American in Congress from South Carolina since Reconstruction, founder of The James E. Clyburn Research and Scholarship Foundation, elected pres. of his NAACP youth chapter when he was 12 years old
Morris Dees, Co-founder/Chief trial counsel-South- ern Poverty Law Center, awarded the ABA Medal-their highest honor
David Dinkins (deceased), Former Mayor of NYC, 1st and only African American to hold that position, Professor-Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs
Howard Dodson, Director-Howard University Library, former director-Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, heavy involvement with African Burial Ground Project
Don Fowler (deceased), Former National Chair-DNC, Citadel
Professor-Urban Politics, Fowler Communications
Harvey Gantt, Architect, 1st African American student at Clemson, former Mayor of Charlotte-their 1st African American mayor
Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, an American historian, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, became the first African-American scholar to be awarded the National Humanities Medal
Marcia Hale, President, Building America’s Future Education Fund, Assistant to President Clinton and Director of Intergovernmental Affairs at the White House
Jim Hodges, Former Governor of South Carolina, advisor/partner McQuire Woods
J. Mac Holladay, Founder/CEO-Market Street Services, Charleston and SC Chamber of Commerce
Sheila C. Johnson, Founder & CEO of Salamander Hotels & Resorts
Walter F. Johnson, Retired Army Brigadier General, former defense contractor
John Lewis (deceased), United States Representative, one of the “Big Six” of Civil Rights movement
Jon Meacham, Pulitzer award winning author, Executive Editor-Random House, former co-host-PBS
Marc H. Morial, President/CEO-National Urban League, former Mayor of New Orleans, appointed to President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability
Robert Moses, Educator, leader in Civil Rights movement, founder of The Algebra Project
Phylicia Rashad, Nationally acclaimed actress, 1st African-American actress to win Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
Richard F. Riley, Former United States Secretary of Education, former SC Governor, Partner-Nelson Mullins law firm, honorary co-chair-World Justice Party
Steve Roberts, Journalist, writer, political commentator, Professor of journalism and political communication at the George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs
Kurt Schmoke, Dean, Howard University Law School, former Mayor of Baltimore-their 1st African American mayor, Rhodes Scholar, former Assistant US Attorney, part of President Carter’s Domestic Policy Staff
Cleveland Sellers, Former President, Voorhees College, former Director-African American Studies Program at USC, only person convicted/jailed during the 1968 Orangeburg Massacre, rec’d full pardon 25 years later
Inez Tenenbaum, Attorney, WYCHE, P.A.; former South Carolina Superintendent of Education
Henry Tisdale, Former President, Claflin University, NAACP Award-Educator of the Year, American Council on Education Commission on Effective Leadership
William Winter, Former Governor of Mississippi, The William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation on the Univ. of Miss. at Oxford, former member of President Clinton’s Advisory Board on Race, special counsel in Jones Walker law firm’s Government Relations Practice Group
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