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Download a pdf of the symposium's program to view the order of events and the biographies of the participants listed below.

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**Wale Adebanwi**, Director of the African Studies Centre; Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, University of Oxford

**Emmanuel Akyeampong**, Ellen Gurney Professor of History and of African and African American Studies; Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Center for African Studies, Harvard University

**Martha Biondi**, Lorraine H. Morton Professor of African American Studies and Professor of History; Director of the Center for African American History, Northwestern University

**Lawrence D. Bobo**, Dean of Social Science; W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University

**Carole Boyce-Davies**, Professor of Africana Studies and English, Cornell University

**Sulee Stinson Clay,** ’92, Chair of the Corporate Group and Managing Partner at McKennon, Shelton & Henn LLP

**Lee A. Daniels**. ’71, Journalist and Writer

**Sangu Delle**, ’10, Entrepreneur, investor, and author; Managing Director of Africa Health Holdings

**Henry Louis Gates Jr.**,, Alphonse Fletcher University Professor; Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University

**Claudine Gay**, Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

**Farah Jasmine Griffin**, ‘85, Chair of the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies; William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies, Columbia University

**Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham**, Chair of the Department of History; Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and African and African American Studies, Harvard University

**Elizabeth Hinton**, Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

**Jeffrey P. Howard**, ’69, Founder and President of the Efficacy Institute

**Octavia Hudson**, ‘71, CEO, Weall Media

**Myles V. Lynk**, ‘71, Peter Kiewit Foundation Professor of Law and the Legal Profession, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University

**Ingrid Monson**, Chair of the Department of Music; Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music, supported by the Time Warner Endowment; Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

**Jennifer C. Nash**, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies, Northwestern University

**Orlando Patterson**, John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

**Imani Perry**, Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University

**Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts**, ‘00, Writer and journalist

**Henry Rosovsky**, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Emeritus, Geyser University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University

**Barbara Savage**, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Department of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania

**Tommie Shelby**, Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies, Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University

**Olufemi Táíwò**, Professor of African Political Thought and Department Chair at the Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University

**Brandon M. Terry**, ’05, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and of Social Studies, Harvard University

**Terence Carter**, ’01, Co-President, Head of TV, Westbrook Studios

**Aurora Vergara-Figueroa**, Director(a) del Centro de Estudios Afrodiaspóricos, Universidad Icesi

**Cornel West**, '74, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard University