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A headshot of Nikki Lanier wearing a yellow dress and holding a mug.

Nikki Lanier

When asked why she has focused so much of her professional life onadvancing racial equity, Nikki Lanier will tell you it was anassignment passed to […]

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Billy Mills

Billy Mills (born June 30, 1938), also known as Tamokoce Te’Hila, is an Oglala Lakota Gold Medalist in the 10,000M run at the 1964 Tokyo

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Fran Berman

Dr. Berman joined the College of Information and Computer Sciences at UMass Amherst as Director of Public Interest Technology and Stuart Rice Research Professor in 2021. Previously,

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Emanuel Cleaver, II

Emanuel Cleaver, II is now serving his tenth term representing Missouri’s Fifth Congressional District, the home district of President Harry Truman. He is a member

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Lisa Z. Fain

Lisa Z. Fain is the Center for Mentoring Excellence™ CEO, a global speaker, and an expert in the intersection of cultural competency and mentoring. Her

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Julia M. Williams

Julia M. Williams is the author of Making Changes in STEM Education: The Change Maker’s Toolkit (Routledge/CRC Press, 2023), a research-based, practice-focused guide to achieving

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Erika Lynn Dawson Head

Erika Lynn Dawson Head, M.S. is the founding Executive Director of Diversity and Inclusive Community Development and Director of the Massenberg STEM Institute at the Manning

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Jeremy C. Young

Jeremy C. Young is the Freedom to Learn program director at PEN America. In this role, he leads PEN America’s efforts to fight government censorship in educational institutions, with a particular focus on the higher education sector. He directs PEN America’s work on educational gag

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Angelique Taylor

Angelique Taylor is an Assistant Professor in the Information Science Department at Cornell Tech and Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Lab (AIRLab) focusing

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Margaret Martonosi

Margaret Martonosi is the H.T. Adams ’35 Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, where she has been on the faculty since 1994. Martonosi’s research

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