2024

Fatima Goss Graves, JD
President and CEO, National Women’s Law Center, President, National Women’s Law Center Action Fund, Co-Founder, TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund

2022

Lawrence T. Brown, PhD, MPA
Educator, Equity Scientist, and Author

2020

Roni Ellington, PhD, MA
Associate Professor, Morgan State University

2018

Pamela V. Hammond, RN, PhD, ScD (hon), FAAN, ANEF

President and CEO, The Hammond Group, LLC

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2016

Robert M. Bell, JD

Former chief judge, Court of Appeals of Maryland

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2014

Joseph T. Jones

President and founder, Center for Urban Families

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2023

Sharon Fries-Britt, PhD
Professor of Higher Education and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP)

2021

Anthony K. Wutoh, PhD ’96, BSP ’90, RPH
Provost and Chief Academic Officer, Howard University

2019

Angela Alsobrooks, JD ’96

Prince George’s County (Md.) Executive

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2017

Sherrilyn A. Ifill, JD

President and director-counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

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2015

Marco Williams

Director, MLK Boulevard: The Concrete Dream

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2013

Larry Gibson, LLB

Professor, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

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