Past Guest Experts
Guest Experts for 2020-21
Archbishop Wilton Gregory
Archdiocese of Washington
Nikole Hannah-Jones
The New York Times Magazine
James Goodwin
Editor, The Oklahoma Eagle
Dalia Mogahed
Director of Research, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
Mehrsa Baradaran
University of California Irvine and author, The Color of Money
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha
Director, Michigan State University and Hurley Children’s Hospital
Pediatric Public Health Initiative and author, What the Eyes Don't See
Erika Doss
University of Notre Dame
Richard Rothstein
Distinguished Fellow, Economic Policy Institute and author, The Color of Law
Austin Channing Brown
Author, I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Dr. Rhea Boyd
Director of Strategy and Equity, California Children's Trust
The Honorable Eric H. Holder, Jr.
82nd Attorney General of the United States (2009-2015), Partner, Covington & Burling LLP
Rachel Lee
Center for Antiracist Research
Fr. Bryan Massingale
James and Nancy Buckman Chair in Applied Christian Ethics, Fordham University and author, Racial Justice and the Catholic Church
Wesley Lowery
Journalist for CBS News and author, They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement
Frank Leon Roberts
Faculty, New York University and author of the groundbreaking "Black Lives Matter: Race, Resistance, and Populist Protest" course
Damon Berry
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, St. Lawrence University and author, Blood and Faith: Christianity in American White Nationalism
Dolly Chugh
Associate Professor, New York University and author, The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias
Sunny Hostin
Senior Legal Correspondent & Analyst for ABC News and author, I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds
Jeanne Theoharis
Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College and author, A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
Amy Spitalnick
Executive Director, Integrity First for America
Jessica Phillips
Partner, Paul Weiss
Michael Bloch
Counsel, Kaplan Heckler & Fink LLP
Jonathan Metzl
Director of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt University and author, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland
Christina Wolbrecht
Professor of Political Science and Director, Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy, University of Notre Dame
DeRay Mckesson
Civil rights activist and author, On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
Student-Alumni Roundtable:
Matthew Aubourg ‘21, Miranda Cuozzo ‘23, Frankie Tran ‘21, Mikayla Vaughn ‘21, Malik Zaire, ‘17
Guest Experts for 2021-22
Nancy Leong
Professor of law, University of Denver, and author of Identity Capitalists
Robin Jacobson
Professor and chair of politics and government, University of Puget Sound, and author of The New Nativism: Proposition 187 and the Debate over Immigration
Courtney Martin
Activist and author of Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter’s School
Jemar Tisby
President of The Witness: A Black Christian Collective and author of How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice
Howard Bryant
Senior writer, ESPN, and author of The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
Frank Dobbin
Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University, and author of Inventing Equal Opportunity
Claire Jean Kim
Professor of political science, University of California Irvine, and author of Dangerous Crossings: Race, Species, and Nature in a Multicultural Age
Ruby Bridges
Anna Malaika Tubbs
Advocate, educator, and author of The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
Rawn James, Jr.
Author of The Double V: How Wars, Protest and Harry Truman Desegregated America's Military
Anna Haskins
Andrew V. Tackes Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame, and co-editor of When Parents Are Incarcerated: Interdisciplinary Research and Interventions to Support Children
Fr. Daniel P. Horan
Director of the Center for Spirituality, Saint Mary's College