Dr. Kase L. Lawal

Dr. Kase L. Lawal is the non-executive Chairman of CAMAC International Corporation, a global corporation with interests in Banking, Engineering Services and Crude oil and Refined products trading for markets in Africa, Europe, South America and North America. Additionally, he retired in 2016 as Chairman and CEO of Erin Energy, a NYSE publicly-listed energy company. He…

Larry P. Thomas

Larry P. Thomas, managing director of the Frederick Douglass Distinguished Scholars (FDDS) program, is one of the most influential, honored, and admired leaders in American higher education today. Known for over 20 years of success in student leadership development, career readiness, and graduate/professional schoolpreparation, hundreds of undergraduate, graduate, and professional students from around the world…

Dr. Charles Flippen, II

Charles C. Flippen II, M.D., is the Richard D. and Ruth P. WalterProfessor and Vice Chair of Education for the Department of Neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Flippen’s research interests include curriculum development in neurological education and new preventive therapiesfor headache. Dr. Flippen earned his B.A. degree in Psychology…

Dr. Tommie Smith

Tommie Smith began life quietly, born to Richard and Dora Smith on June 6, 1944 in Clarksville, Texas the seventh of 12 children.  Tommie Smith survived a life-threatening bout of pneumonia as an infant which allowed him to carry out the work that God intended for him. Today, his historic achievements make him a nationally and…

DeLois Jordan Smith

Delois Jordan Smith was born December 7, 1950, in Attalla, Alabama, and raised in Southern California. She has four children and a blended family of nine. Her first born son is Montell Jordan, National recording artist, singer, producer, song writer and now Pastor for over ten years. Delois has fifteen grandchildren and one great grandchild….

Xernona Clayton Brady

Xernona Clayton is the Founder, President and CEO of the Trumpet Awards Foundation, Inc.and Creator of the Foundation’s Trumpet Awards. The Trumpet Awards is a prestigious event highlighting African American accomplishments and contributions. Initiated in 1993 by Turner Broadcasting, the Trumpet Awards has been televised annually and distributed internationally to over 185 countries around the…

Judge Glenda Hatchett

Judge Glenda Hatchett

A graduate of Mt. Holyoke College and Emory University School of Law, where she was an Earl Warren Scholar, Hatchett completed a prestigious federal clerkship in the United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia. She then spent nearly 10 years at Delta Air Lines, where she was the airline’s highest-ranking woman of color worldwide….