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OCT 3rd – 5th 2024

THANK YOU NEW ORLEANS!

The 2024 National Reparations Summit is officially in the books! We extend our gratitude to the speakers, ADOS AF volunteer staff, supporters, and participants who joined us. Your presence was truly invaluable. We are excited about the prospect of continuing to advocate and collaborate with individuals who share our vision in the upcoming days. Stay tuned!

Join us for three days filled with informative presentations, engaging workshops, and networking opportunities with industry professionals. We can’t wait to see you in New Orleans for the National Reparations Summit!

Don’t miss this chance to enhance your advocacy skills and expand your knowledge of the need for reparations. Purchase your ticket now and take the next step towards advancing reparations for descendants of chattel slavery in the United States of America.

Upon purchasing a valid ticket, attendees will gain access to the National Reparations Summit. They will also receive notifications various updates to enhance their event experience. Stay alert for future announcements and updates!

Speakers

Yvette Carnell

President of ADOS AF
Yvette Carnell is the founder and President of the ADOS Advocacy Foundation. Previously, she served as staff assistant to U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), legislative aide to Congressman Marion Berry (D-AR), and assistant to the Chair of the Women’s Vote Center at the DNC. She also worked as regional field director for America’s Families United, where she supervised, mobilized, and coordinated the GOTV efforts of multiple non-profit organizations in preparation for upcoming elections. After leaving Capitol Hill, Yvette started a political call-in show on YouTube with almost 90k subscribers and co-founded the American Descendants of Slavery movement. Yvette grew up in Decatur, Georgia, and attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she earned a bachelor’s degree in political science with a minor in philosophy.

Nina Turner

Educator & Senator
The Honorable Nina Turner is the founder of We Are Somebody, a capacity building organization for the working class. She is a hell-raising humanitarian, thought leader and Senior Fellow at The New School Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy. She served on Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaigns as a national surrogate in 2016 and national co-chair in 2020. A former Ohio State Senator, she continues to fight tirelessly to advance policy that improves the material conditions of working people across the United States of America and has also taken that message abroad to the United Kingdom.

Dr. Cornel West

Presidential Candidate
Dr. Cornel West, affectionately known to many as Brother West, is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary. Dr. West teaches on the works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, as well as courses in Philosophy of Religion, African American Critical Thought, and a wide range of subjects -- including but by no means limited to, the classics, philosophy, politics, cultural theory, literature, and music. He has a passion to communicate to a vast variety of publics in order to keep alive the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. – a legacy of telling the truth and bearing witness to love and justice.

Mr. Marcus Coleman

Vice Chair Fulton County
Reparations Task Force
Marcus is the Founder and CEO of Save OurSelves (SOS), a human, political, civil rights organization with four major focuses: prison reform, youth mentorship, criminal justice reform, and police terrorism. His dedicated work has gained national and international recognition and has been featured on programs such as ABC 20/20, OWN Dr. Phil, and CBS Inside Edition, as well as The Doctors, spotlighting high profile civil rights cases of which Marcus was heavily involved, helping families struck by tragedies. Fulton County Board of Commissioners, in 2021, voted to implement the first Reparations Task Force. Marcus Coleman was nominated and accepted as the first member to begin this historic work. A father, husband, youth football coach and mentor, entrepreneur, and revolutionary, Marcus Coleman daily applies the quote--“Balancing the Scale of Justice”.

Aisha Muhammad

Policy Director ADOS AF
Aisha Muhammad is responsible for designing ADOS AF’s framework of a comprehensive federal reparations program and its implementation. She also led the Policy Team in developing the Black Agenda, which recommends data-driven policy proposals to rectify long-standing disparities in Black communities across America. To that end, Aisha also directs the organization’s candidate consulting program, a service offering expertise on how campaigns at the federal, state, and local levels can most effectively shape their message to reach their Black constituents and develop relevant legislative initiatives to meet that cohort’s particular needs. Aisha holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) with a concentration in health care policy and administration. Before earning her MPH, she received a Bachelor of Arts in history, focusing on African-American studies.

Rev. Dr. Kevin W. Cosby

Pres. Simmons College
In 2005, Dr. Cosby was inaugurated as the 13th President of Simmons College of Kentucky. Established by formerly enslaved Kentucky Baptists, Simmons became a full university with a law school and a medical school. Dr. Cosby earned a Bachelor’s degree from Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, a Master of Divinity degree from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, and a Doctor of Ministry degree from United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. Most recently, President Cosby earned a second doctorate – a Ph.D. in Public Policy (as a Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholar) from Union Institute & University in Cincinnati, OH.

Mr. Marvin Slaughter

Il. Reparations Commission Chair
Marvin Slaughter is a Senior Portfolio Manager in the Inclusive Economy Lab working on the City Colleges of Chicago portfolio of projects. Marvin graduated from The University of Illinois-Chicago with a bachelor's degree in political science and economics. Marvin graduated from The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy with his MPP. Prior to joining the Inclusive Economy Lab, he worked as the Interim Director at the African American Leadership and Policy Institute. He serves on the Alumni Advocacy Committee for the UIC Alumni Board. Slaughter graduated with a B.A. in political science and economics from the University of Illinois-Chicago and a master’s degree in Public Policy with certificates in Municipal Finance and Policy Analysis from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.

Dr. Patrick Rogers

ADOS Research Institute
Dr. John Patrick Rogers is a scientist who is interested in using his skills and talents to help people live longer, healthier lives. His desire to apply the tools of chemistry to tackle the biological and medical problems affecting society led him from Howard University where he earned a BS in chemistry to the University of California Davis. At U.C. Davis, he earned a PhD in chemistry with a concentration in organic chemistry and chemical biology. Dr. Rogers served as a Lecturer in the chemistry department at Howard University. In his current role, working for the federal government as a toxicologist, Dr. Rogers evaluates the human health effects of pesticides. In addition to his work as a toxicologist, Dr. Rogers serves as the co-founder and co-director of the American Descendants of Slavery Research Institute.

Dr. Lassiter F. Speller

ADOS Research Institute
Dr. Lassiter F. Speller is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Department of Psychology and Political Science at Eastern New Mexico University-Portales. He is also the co-founder and co-director of the American Descendants of Slavery Research Institute. Dr. Speller received his BA in Psychology from Winston-Salem State University before earning his MA and PhD in Cognitive-Experimental Psychology from The Ohio State University. His primary research focus is on cognition and psychophysiology, however, he has a range of research and publication interests including linguistic reality monitoring in politics, human factors/ergonomics and user interface experience, as well as design research and environmental psychology.

Tito Izard, MD

President & CEO Milwaukee Health Services, Inc
Physician, Dr. Tito Izard, is the President & CEO for Milwaukee Health Services, Inc., a multi-disciplinary independent not-for-profit Federally Qualified Health Center in Wisconsin. He has over 25 years of experience as an educator, instructor, and chief administrator of medical practices with emphasis on urban health issues, clinical practice redesign and reducing health disparities. His model for recruitment and retention of providers dedicated to working with Health, Education and Economically Disenfranchised (HEED) populations has received national recognition. Dr. Izard’s teachings focus on ethnocultural lineage and how racial malignant indifference disrupts ecosystems. He describes how instability impacts the continuum between health, health equity and health disparities. Along with his wife, Dr. Delicia Randle-Izard, the two have co-founded a statewide African American legacy mentoring program, Pipeline to Practice: Increasing ADOS scholars as future physicians.

Rev. Dr. Chris Campbell

Israel Missionary Baptist Church
Rev. Dr. Chris Campbell received his formal education from Harry Doss High School. He is a graduate of the University of Louisville, where he holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a minor in Pan-African Studies. He was a Mae Elizabeth and Theresa Coffman Scholar at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary where he earned a Master of Arts, with a concentration in Church Leadership and Administration. He holds a Doctor of Ministry from Duke University where his research topic was: The Case for Reparations: The Social Gospel of Walter Rauschenbusch, and A Program to Understand and Close the Racial Wealth Gap.

Jari C. Honora

Certified genealogist
Jari C. Honora, a Certified Genealogist®, is a New Orleans native and proud Louisiana Creole with roots dating back more than two centuries along Bayou Lafourche and the German-Acadian Coast. He is a graduate of St. Augustine High School and Tulane University. He is Family Historian at the Williams Research Center of the Historic New Orleans Collection. He also does historical and genealogical research professionally, including for the TV programs “Finding Your Roots,” “We’ll Meet Again,” and the Georgetown Memory Project. He is a trustee of the Board for Certification of Genealogists and a board member of the Louisiana Historical Society and Genealogical Research Society of New Orleans.

Dr. LaBarron K. Hill, Ph.D.

North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University
Dr. LaBarron K. Hill is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, as well as a faculty affiliate of the Center for Integrative Health Disparities and Equity Research (CIDHER) in the John R. and Kathy R. Hairston College of Health and Human Sciences at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Dr. Hill is a 2005 Psi Chi inductee, a former Ronald E. McNair Scholar, and a 2006 graduate of Tuskegee University. Dr. Hill received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with a specialization in Health from The Ohio State University and completed post-doctoral fellowships in Behavioral Medicine and Minority Aging at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Hill’s program of research focuses on the interaction of biological and psychosocial factors on health. His talk will focus on relations race-related stress, psychological coping and cardiovascular functioning with an emphasis on the role of the autonomic nervous system as a significant pathway in ethnic disparities in cardiovascular disease risk.

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