COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Emmai Alaquiva
CEO, Ya Momz House, Inc.
Jonathan Arac, PhD
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh and
Founding Director, Humanities Center at the University of Pittsburgh
Malik Bankston
Executive Director of the Kingsley Association
Samuel Black
Director, African American Program; Senator John Heinz History Center
Fred Brown, MSW
CEO, The Forbes Fund
Quinton Bullock
President, Community College of Allegheny County
Norm Conti, PhD
Associate Professor, McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts, Sociology
Kymberly M. Cruz, PhD
Senior Program Officer, Arts Educator - Pittsburgh Public Schools
Larry Davis, PhD
Director, Pitt University Center on Race & Social Problems
Khadija T. Diggs, Esq.
Deputy Director, Southwest Regional Office of PA Governor Tom Wolf
Leon Ford
Duquesne University Student, Writer
Josiah Gilliam
Special Assistant to CEO, web + Communications Manager - Homewood Children's Village
Laurence Glasco, PhD
Associate Professor of History - University of Pittsburgh, Department of History
Kathy Glass, PhD
Associate Professor/Director of Undergraduate Studies McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts Department of English
Mr. Melvin Hubbard EI
District Chief of Staff, Office of State Representative Edward C. Gainey
Renee Knox EdD
Instructor, Department of Developmental Studies, CCAC
Dan Kubis, PhD
Pitt University, Assistant Director, Humanities Center & Research Assistant Professor
Temple S. Lovelace, PhD
Associate Professor of Special Education - Duquesne University
Jeff Mallory
Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion - Duquesne University
Lenny McAllister
Conservative American Political Commentator for AOL and the Root, Running for PA's 14th Congressional District
Rick McCrown, PhD
Professor, School of Education, Foundations & Leadership
Rich Milner, PhD
Director, Center for Urban Education, Professor of Education; Even Faison Professor of Urban Education; Professor of Sociology, Social Work & Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Richard Malik Morris
Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh, Housing Director; long-time Homewood resident & historian
Connie Moss, EdD
Associate Professor, School of Education Foundations and Leadership
Esohe Osai, PhD
Surrogate for Rev. John Wallace & Director of University Services, Pitt-Assisted Communities & Schools
Mary J. Parish
Adjunct Professor, Duquesne University, Department of English and Center for Women's and Gender Studies
Elaine Parsons, PhD
Associate Professor, McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts - Department of History
Ursula Payne
Chairperson, Department of Dance at Slippery Rock University
Angelle D. Pryor, MLIS
Program Assistant - Center for Community-Engaged Teaching and Research, Duquesne University Librarian-at-Large
Ebony R. Pugh
Public Information Officer, Pittsburgh Public Schools
Marcus Rediker, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History - the University of Pittsburgh, Department of History
Jacqueline Roebuck Sakho, EdD
Post-Doctoral Fellow of Clinical Community Practice in the Canevin Center, School of Education, Duquesne University
David Shumway, PhD
Professor of English, Carnegie Mellon University
Victoria Snyder, M.Ed, MSLPA
Executive Vice President, Ya Momz House, Inc.
James Swindal, PhD
Professor and Dean of McAnulty College, McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts Department of Philosophy - Duquesne University
William Thompkins
Executive Director of the Pittsburgh Project
Sala Udin
Community Activist & August Wilson Center affiliate
Rev. John Wallace, PhD
Pitt University, School of Social Work Professor & Pastor of a strongly community-based church in Homewood
Chance Wideman
Son of Robbie Wideman; Nephew of John Edgar Wideman
Darryl T. Wiley
Executive Director of the Fund for Advancement of Minorities through Education (FAME)
Sharel Witt
Great-Neice of John Edgar Wideman