Check out our past speakers who commemorated the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Recent Speakers

Fatima Goss Graves, JD

Fatima Goss Graves, JD
President and CEO, National Women’s Law Center, President, National Women’s Law Center Action Fund, Co-Founder, TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund

2024 Celebration Recap
Sharon Fries-Britt

Sharon Fries-Britt, PhD
Professor of Higher Education and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP)

2023 Celebration Recap
Lawrence T. Brown

Lawrence T. Brown, PhD, MPA
Educator, Equity Scientist, and Author

2022 Celebration Recap

Past Speakers

Anthony K. Wutoh

2021
Anthony K. Wutoh, PhD ’96, BSP ’90, RPH
Provost and Chief Academic Officer, Howard University

Roni Ellington

2020
Roni Ellington, PhD, MA
Associate Professor, Morgan State University

Angela Alsobrooks

2019
Angela Alsobrooks, JD ’96
Prince George’s County (Md.) Executive

Pamela V. Hammond

2018
Pamela V. Hammond, RN, PhD, ScD (hon), FAAN, ANEF
President and CEO, The Hammond Group, LLC

2017 Sherrilyn A. Ifill, JD

2017
Sherrilyn A. Ifill, JD
President and director-counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

Robert Bell

2016
Robert M. Bell, JD
Former chief judge, Court of Appeals of Maryland

 

Marco Williams

2015
Marco Williams
Director, MLK Boulevard: The Concrete Dream

 

Joseph Jones

2014
Joseph T. Jones
President and founder, Center for Urban Families

Larry Gibson

2013
Larry Gibson, LLB
Professor, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law