Historian, Scholar-Activist, Public Intellectual, and Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Author of Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins (2025, NYU Press’ Black Power Series)
Associate Professor of History and Director, Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, Tufts University.
Public Historian, African American Trail Project and the Du Bois Forum
Co-curator, We Who Believe In Freedom: Black Feminist DC,” the inaugural exhibition (2023) of the National Women’s History Museum.
Project Historian, Du Bois Freedom Center
Chief Historian, 10 Million Names Project
Author, Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War and The Stories We Tell.
President at Colorado College
Professor of Education
Educational Consultant
Author, Public School Equity: Educational Leadership for Justice, Schooling Multicultural Teachers: A Guide for Program Assessment and Professional Development, and Learning from the Inside-Out: Child Development and School Choice.
Award-winning Writer, Researcher, and Cultural Analyst
Associate Professor, Department of History & African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Author– Queen Mother” Audley Moore: Mother of Black Nationalism, Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed An Era, and New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition.
Mellon Associate Professor
Co-Director, African American Trail Project , Tufts’ Slavery, Colonialism, and Their Legacies Project
Author, Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter and The Grimkes
Comedian
Emmy-nominated documentary producer, PBS
Correspondent , The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Host, The Daily Show: Beyond the Scenes
White House Correspondents' Dinner, 2017
10 Comics to watch in 2016, Variety Magazine
Doctorate in Pastoral Counseling
Masters of Arts in Counseling Services
Counselor Educator
Program Chair
Designer of curriculum and pedagogy to educate professional counselors, psychologists, social workers, and mental health professionals
CACREP accreditation
Founder of MOSAIC Consulting and Counseling Services.
Specializing in Cultural Competence in Counseling, Wellness in Faith and Spiritual-based Communities, Disordered and Problem Gambling, Homicidal Loss, and Grief and Loss Recovery.
Clinical specialty includes Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) and Trauma
Author, On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard.
Author, Lecturer, and Professor
Dr. Jules K. Whitehill Professor of Humanism and Ethics in the Department of Government at Claremont McKenna College.
Books: One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle over an American Ideal, (Princeton University Press in October 2025, The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America, The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty , The Essential Douglass: Writings and Speeches , and Abraham Lincoln and Liberal Democracy.
Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at Lehman College-City University of New York
Author of Knocking on the Door: The Federal Government’s Attempt to Desegregate the Suburbs, Southern Stalemate: Five Years without Public Education in Prince Edward County, Virginia, and The Battle Nearer to Home: The Persistence of School Segregation in New York City.
Academic
Author, Black Samson: The Untold Story of an American Icon, Womanist Biblical Interpretation, Reimagining Hagar, and The Untold Story of An American Icon
Wes Walker
Professional Body Builder
Certified Strength, Conditioning and Nutrition Specialist
Fitness Coach
Author, Rise and Divine, Paybacks A Witch, From Bad to Cursed, Back in a Spell, In Charm's Way, Wicked Like A Wildfire, Fierce Like A Firestorm, Blood Countess, and Poison Priestess.
LanaPopovicBooks.com
www.fionadavisbooks.com
Author of
The Magnolia Palace
The Lions of Fifth Avenue
The Chelsea Girls
The Masterpiece
The Address
The Dollhouse
Writer
Author, Surviving The White Gaze, Sugar in the Raw, Uncle Tom or New Negro
Cultural Critic
Podcast Creator & Host
Creative Consultant
Dr. Brandon R. Byrd Historian of nineteenth and twentieth century black intellectual and social history, with a special focus on black internationalism.
Author of The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti , co-editor of Ideas in Unexpected Places: Reimagining Black Intellectual History , and of Haiti for the Haitians by Louis-Joseph Janvier.
Associate Professor
Graduate Program Director of Sociology
Sociologist
Educator
Public Intellectual
Social Justice Advocate
Author, Race on the Move and Not All In
Author of the novels Bed-Stuy Is Burning and The Body Politic
Writes for The New York Times, NewYorker.com, New York Magazine, The New Republic, and many other publications.
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology at UC-Davis
Author, The New Noir
Author, Sushi Tuesdays: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Resilience
Public Theologian
Author, Safeguarding the Stranger: An Abrahamic Theology and Ethic of Protective Hospitality
Sociologist
Author, Black and Queer on Campus, behind the laughs, PAINT the WHITE HOUSE BLACK, and THUG LIFE
michaelpjeffries.com
Author, The Cold is in Her Bones and The Beast Is An Animal
Editor
Author, The Last Woman in the Forest, Breaking Wild, Season of Ice, love cajun style, and The Stones of Mourning Creek
Author of
Who’s Black and Why w/ Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Diderot And The Art of Thinking Freely
The Anatomy of Blackness
Sublime Disorder
Scholar of Religion, Gender & Ethics
Author, The Woman Question in Islamic Studies, Tying the Knot, Half of Faith, Human in Death, Sexual Ethics and Islam, The Lives of Muhammad, Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam, and others.
Author, The Other Side of Disappearing, Georgia All Along, Love At First, Love Lettering, Beginner's Luck, Luck of the Draw, and other books.
Author, What You Don’t Know About Charlie Outlaw, The New Neighbor, The History of Us, Husband and Wife, The Myth of You and Me, and The Body of a Girl
Author, Amy's Story, Album Di Famiglia, Imaging Russia 2000, Before the Fall, The Red Screen, and other books.
