
Conference Speakers
Meet Our Speakers

RON BUSBY SR.
CEO & Presdient
U.S. Black Chambers, Inc.

REV. AL SHARPTON
Founder & President
National Action Network (NAN)

MAYOR MURIEL BOWSER
Mayor
Washington, D.C.

DERRICK JOHNSON
President & CEO
NAACP

Dr. Ben Chavis Jr.
CEO - The Chavis Group
Host at The Chavis Chronicles

Rev. Dr. Frederick D. Haynes, III
Senior Pastor
Friendship-West Baptist Church

ED GORDON
Journalist & Television Personality

YING MCGUIRE
President & CEO
National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC)

RON BUSBY JR.
Co-Founder & Head of Product
ByBlack

KIM BARKER-LEE
EVP & Chief Legal Officer
Bally's

CRISTINA ACKAS
Vice President
Inclusion, Equity & Belonging
DraftKings

JUSTIN CARTER
SVP, Regional Operations
PENN Entertainment, Inc

MICHAEL CROME
SVP & Chief Financial Officer
Las Vegas Raiders & Allegient Stadium

JARVIS STEWART
Chairman & CEO
Highland Poe

ASHLEY BELL, ESQ.
Chairman & CEO
Redemption Holding Company
Ready Life

REV. MARK A. THOMPSON
Radio and TV Personality, Activist Make It Plain
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everett sands
CEO
Lendistry

MICHAEL BLAKE
Founding CEO
ATLAS Strategy Group
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Kendra
Bracken-Ferguson
Founder & CEO
The Brain Trust

JANIS BOWDLER
Counselor to the Secretary
(Racial Equity)
U.S. Treasury Department

GARY GUIDRY
Founder & CEO
Black Promoters Collective

KEITH CLINKSCALES
Founder & CEO
KTC Ventures

JENNIFER SCOTT
Business Partner
BBC Studios

Sheryl Evans Davis
Executive Director
San Francisco Human Rights Commission

ZAKIYA LARRY
President & CEO
Enlightened, Inc.

MICHELE COBER
Director of External Affairs
Verizon

Meedie Bardonille
Founder & CEO
Black Nurse Collaborative

MICHAEL CRAWFORD
Founding Executive Director
1867 Health Innovations Project
at Howard University

TALISHA BEKAVAC
Executive Vice President
U.S. Black Chambers, Inc.

ANTWANYE FORD
President & CEO
Enlightened, Inc.

CHARLES O'NEAL
Chairman of the Board
U.S. Black Chambers, Inc.

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

Dr. Lanail R. Plummer
President & CEO
Onyx Therapy Group

Jolie Bernard
Principal Owner
The Bernard Group LLC

Debra Keller-Green
President & CEO
Keller Professional Services, Inc.

STERLING MCKINLEY
Digital Marketing Coach
Grow With Google

Camille Carter
President & CEO
Madison Black Chamber of Commerce

Anthony Gaddy
President & CEO
Upstate New York Black Chamber

PHILLIP DUNN
Program Manager
U.S. Black Chambers, Inc.

ALICEA GAY
Vice President External Affairs
ByBlack

Bridgett Gagné
Managing Member
Gagné Associates

Catrina Craft
Founder & CEO
C M Craft, PLLC

CJ Broderick
President & CEO
The Greater Durham Black
Chamber of Commerce

Karla Causey
President & CEO
African American Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce

Tonya White
CEO
The Write Touch

Kendrick Tilghman
President & CEO
Greater Baltimore
Black Chamber Of Commerce

Aisha Bond
President & CEO
Greater Washington DC
Chamber of Commerce

Nigel Stephens
Principal
Phoenix Strategies