Alice Duhon Ross Author

Dr. Ashraf Esmail is associate professor and program coordinator of criminal justice at Dillard University. He is the Director for the Center for Racial Justice and Barron Hilton Criminal Justice Endowed Professor.

Dr. Abul Pitre is professor and department chair of Africana Studies at San Francisco State University. He was appointed Edinboro University’s first named professor for his outstanding work in African American education and held the distinguished title of Carter G. Woodson Professor of Education.

Dr. Alice Duhon Ross is a core faculty for the Richard W. Riley College of Education at Walden University. Current research focus is multicultural, international, peace education. She is a career educator with over thirty years of teaching in higher education and is Nationally Board-Certified Counselor and National Board-Certified School Counselor.

Dr. Judith Blakely is academic coordinator at Walden University and serves a vital role in maximizing student achievement by incorporating leadership, advocacy, and collaboration. She is certified in multiple states as a school superintendent, school administrator (pre-K-12 principal), and Director of Special, Bilingual, and Gifted Education.

Dr. H. Prentice Baptiste is a Regents and Distinguished Achievement Professor, and in 2014 was awarded the first College of Education, Diversity Award at New Mexico State University. He was president of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME), a premier organization advocating for equity and social justice, which he helped found in 1990.