Dr. Jane F. Levey is the editor of Washington History, the Magazine of the Historical Society of Washington D.C. She’s a consulting historian specializing in D.C. history and founder of Summit Historians, a corporate history group.

E. Ethelbert Miller, a poet, teacher editor, and literary activist, is currently the Board Chair or the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). For nearly four decades, he taught at Howard University an directed its African American Resource Center, while also working as an author, editor, blogger, and poetry teacher.

Robert Raben, president of The Raben Group, helps clients achieve complex public policy objectives at the intersection of law, policy, politics, and media. Raben serves on the Boards of The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, the Unidos Action Fund, and former President Barack Obama’s, My Brothers’ Keeper Alliance.

Rabbi Sid Schwartz is a social entrepreneur and distinguished Jewish leader. Serving for nearly three decades as a congregational rabbi, he founded Congregation Adat Shalom. The author of three books, an interfaith activist and commentator, he writes and speaks on connections among Jewish, Christians, Muslims, and Blacks in the DC area and worldwide.

James Stowe, Director of the Montgomery County Human Rights Commission, is the recipient of numerous awards and recognition for his decades of successful community service and human and civil rights advocacy.

Donald Thoms runs ThomsMediaGroup, consulting on television production and casting. He is the former Vice President of Programming for PBS, and prior to that was the Vice President, Talent Development and Diversity for Discovery Communications. Thoms is an award-winning television director, producer and executive producer.

Rabbi Arthur Waskow, early SNCC member and civil rights activist, is the founding director of the Shalom Center and author of multiple books. A vigorous human rights advocate, his current work focuses on eco-social justice and on building Black and Jewish alliances to confront persistent racism.

Dr. Andre C. Willis is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University. He is a philosopher of religion whose work focuses on Enlightenment reflections on religion, African-American religious thought, critical theory, and democratic citizenship. He currently teaches a seminar entitled “Exodus: Freedom and Liberation in the Black and Jewish Religous Imaginations,” and publishes widely.

Dr. Victoria Wolcott teaches civil rights, the labor movement, and African-American history at the University of Buffalo. Her book, Race, Riots and Roller Coasters: The Struggle Over Segregated Recreation in America, explores the critical role of segregated amusement parks in America’s civil rights history.