Danielle Hill
Featured Speaker
Founder of Heron-Hill LLC, Co-Owner of Wampanoag Trading Post and Gallery, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe
Colleen Roan
Featured Speaker
McKinley County Early Childhood Coalition, Navajo Nation
Emerson Toledo
Featured Speaker
McKinley County Early Childhood Coalition, Navajo Nation
OrigiNation Cultural Arts Center
Performing Arts
Boston-based nonprofit performing arts organization, founded by current Artistic Director, Shaumba-Yandje Dibinga. Learn more at https://www.originationinc.org.
Mar Parilla
Child Enrichment Workshop
Founding Artistic Director
Danza Orgánica
Tanya Nixon-Silberg
Child Enrichment Workshop
Founder and Director,
Little Uprisings
Paige Beliveau
Project Manager
Center for Health Equity, Education, and Research, Boston Medical Center
Jitu Brown
National Director
Journey for Justice Alliance
Jaye Clement
Director of Community Health Programs and Strategies
Henry Ford Health System
Raul Fernandez
Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, Boston University
Jenna Gaarde
Program Director, Research & Training
The Praxis Project
Lonias Gilmore
Childhood Obesity Prevention Specialist
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
Nneka Hall
Mother, Maternal and Infant Health Advocate, Commissioner, Doula, Bereavement Specialist, and Community Evaluator
Boston Breastfeeding Coalition
Alycia Hardy
Policy Analyst, Child Care and Early Education
The Center for Law and Social Policy
Dianne Haulcy
Senior Vice President for Family Engagement
Think Small
Sarah Jimenez
Senior Researcher
Community Labor United
Xavier Morales
Executive Director
The Praxis Project
Jose Oliva
Co-Founder and Co-Director
Food Chain Workers Alliance
Maryellen Santiago
Director
HEROES Youth Leadership
Maurice Sykes
Executive Director
Early Childhood Leadership Institute at the National Center for Urban Education
Nurys Camargo
Founder and Board Chair
Chica Project
Gladys Vega
Executive Director
Chelsea Collaborative
Tommy Luna
Co-Chair
Newark for Educational Equity and Diversity (N.E.E.D.)
Rosario Ubiera-Minaya
Executive Director
Amplify Latinx
Roseann Bongiovanni
Executive Director
GreenRoots
Adela Gonzalez
Health Equity Corps Organizer
GreenRoots
Marciela Escobar
Food Justice Organizer
GreenRoots
Dina Abreau
Resident Researcher
Healthy Neighborhoods Study
Liz Friedman
Co-Founder and Co-President
Group Peer Support for Parents (GPS)
Dave Ellis
Executive Director
Office of Resilience at the New Jersey Department of Children and Families
Reann Gibson
Senior Research Fellow
Conservation Law Foundation
Indira Guzman
Co-Founder and Director
Community Language Cooperative
Shaneka Boucher
President and Founder
Social Responsibility Through Me
Aza Nedhari
Co-founding Executive Director
Mamatoto Village
Ashanti Jones
Community Engagement Manager
New Jersey Institute for Social Justice
Jasmine Lee
Social Justice Mediator
Social Justice Mediation Program (SJMP)
Anusha Chaitanya
Co-Director
Social Justice Mediation Program (SJMP)
Liz O'Connor
Founder & Principal
Strategy Matters
Katie Stewart Dorfman
Senior Consultant
Strategy Matters
May Losloso
Community Engagement Director
Children's Defense Fund
Meme Styles
President and Founder
MEASURE
Victoria Xiao
Mediator
Social Justice Mediation Program (SJMP)
Eva Vanterpool
NJ Youth for Justice Youth Council
150 Years is Enough Campaign
Alicia Garcia Rivas
NJ Youth for Justice Youth Council
150 Years is Enough Campaign
Lydia Prado
Executive Director
Lifespan Local
Dacia Thompson
Founder and Lead Facilitator
Truss Training Institute LLC
Kira Riley
Facilitator
CSR Visitation Program

Speakers
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Mayra Alvarez
Keynote Speaker
President of The Children's Partnership
Nominated to serve on the First 5 California Commission and the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission
Jennie Joseph
Keynote Speaker
Advocate, Founder and Executive Director of Commonsense Childbirth Inc.
Loretta Ross
Keynote Speaker
Advocate and Author, Reproductive Justice: An Introduction, and Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundations, Theory, Practice, Critique
Visiting Associate Professor, Smith College Program for the Study of Women and Gender
Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson
Keynote Speaker
President and CEO of Deaconess Foundation
Incoming President and CEO of Children’s Defense Fund