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Conference Speakers

Meet Our Speakers

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RON BUSBY SR.

CEO & Presdient
U.S. Black Chambers, Inc.

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REV. AL SHARPTON

Founder & President
National Action Network (NAN)

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MAYOR MURIEL BOWSER

Mayor

Washington, D.C.

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DERRICK JOHNSON

President & CEO

NAACP

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Dr. Ben Chavis Jr.

CEO - The Chavis Group

Host at The Chavis Chronicles

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Rev. Dr. Frederick D. Haynes, III 

Senior Pastor
Friendship-West Baptist Church

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ED GORDON

Journalist & Television Personality

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YING MCGUIRE

President & CEO

National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC)

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RON BUSBY JR.

Co-Founder & Head of Product

ByBlack

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KIM BARKER-LEE

EVP & Chief Legal Officer

Bally's

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CRISTINA ACKAS

Vice President

Inclusion, Equity & Belonging

DraftKings

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JUSTIN CARTER

SVP, Regional Operations

PENN Entertainment, Inc

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MICHAEL CROME

SVP & Chief Financial Officer

Las Vegas Raiders & Allegient Stadium

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JARVIS STEWART

Chairman & CEO

Highland Poe

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ASHLEY BELL, ESQ.

Chairman & CEO
Redemption Holding Company

 Ready Life

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REV. MARK A. THOMPSON

Radio and TV Personality, Activist Make It Plain

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everett sands

CEO

Lendistry

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MICHAEL BLAKE

Founding CEO

ATLAS Strategy Group

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Kendra
Bracken-Ferguson

Founder & CEO

The Brain Trust

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JANIS BOWDLER

Counselor to the Secretary
(Racial Equity)

U.S. Treasury Department

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GARY GUIDRY

Founder & CEO

Black Promoters Collective

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KEITH CLINKSCALES

Founder & CEO

KTC Ventures

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JENNIFER SCOTT

Business Partner

BBC Studios

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Sheryl Evans Davis

Executive Director

San Francisco Human Rights Commission

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ZAKIYA LARRY

President & CEO

Enlightened, Inc.

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MICHELE COBER

Director of External Affairs
Verizon

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Meedie Bardonille

Founder & CEO

Black Nurse Collaborative

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MICHAEL CRAWFORD

Founding Executive Director

1867 Health Innovations Project

at Howard University

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TALISHA BEKAVAC

Executive Vice President

U.S. Black Chambers, Inc. 

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ANTWANYE FORD

President & CEO

Enlightened, Inc.

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CHARLES O'NEAL

Chairman of the Board

U.S. Black Chambers, Inc.

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Alisa Joseph

VP, Director of ProgramsU.S. Black Chambers, Inc.

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Dr. Lanail R. Plummer

President & CEO

Onyx Therapy Group

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Jolie Bernard

Principal Owner
The Bernard Group LLC

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Debra Keller-Green

President & CEO
Keller Professional Services, Inc.

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STERLING MCKINLEY

Digital Marketing Coach

Grow With Google

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Camille Carter

President & CEO

Madison Black Chamber of Commerce

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Anthony Gaddy

President & CEO

Upstate New York Black Chamber

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PHILLIP DUNN

Program Manager
U.S. Black Chambers, Inc.

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ALICEA GAY

Vice President External Affairs
ByBlack

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Bridgett Gagné

Managing Member

Gagné Associates

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Catrina Craft

Founder & CEO
C M Craft, PLLC

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CJ Broderick

President & CEO
The Greater Durham Black
Chamber of Commerce

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Karla Causey

President & CEO

African American Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce

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Tonya White

CEO

The Write Touch

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Kendrick Tilghman

President & CEO

Greater Baltimore

Black Chamber Of Commerce

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Aisha Bond

President & CEO

Greater Washington DC

Chamber of Commerce

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Nigel Stephens

Principal

Phoenix Strategies

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