Advisory Board

Leah C. Aden
Deputy Director of Litigation
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

Tanya Debose
Founder
Preserving Communities of Color Initiative

Melissa Harris-Perry
Maya Angelou Presidential Chair
Wake Forest University
Founding Director
Anna Julia Cooper Center
Editor-at-Large
ELLE.com

Erica R. Hughes ’03
Judge
Harris County Criminal Court at Law No. 3

Martha S. Jones
Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor
Professor of History and the SNF Agora Institute
Johns Hopkins University

Rogers M. Smith
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science
University of Pennsylvania

Rebecca Traister
Author and Political Commentator
Writer-at-Large
New York Magazine

Verrick Walker ’94
Principal
Page Southerland Page, Inc.