Juneteenth 2023 - Leadership

Chair: Fay Yarbrough, Rice University ’97
Associate dean of humanities and professor of history, Rice University

Speakers:

Brandon R. Byrd
Associate professor of history and African American and diaspora studies, Vanderbilt University

“‘United We Stand, Divided We Fall’: Unity and Difference in Post-Emancipation Black Politics”

Masonya J. Bennett
Assistant professor of anthropology, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

“Southern Solidarities”

Jeanelle Hope
Director and associate professor of African American studies, Prairie View A&M University

“The Enduring Legacy of Juneteenth and American Fascism”

Chair: Danielle King
Assistant professor of psychological sciences, Rice University

Speakers:

Derek R. Avery Rice University ’01
C.T. Bauer Chair of Inclusive Leadership, University of Houston

“Leading While Black”

Alison V. Hall Birch
Assistant professor of business, The University of Texas at Arlington

“Colored Credentials: Presumed Competent To Lead in the Crushed Velvet Ghetto”

Chair: Alexander X. Byrd Rice University ’90
Vice provost for access and institutional excellence, Rice University

Speakers

Richard Baker
Executive director of people, access and development and university Title IX coordinator, Rice University

Cecilia Fernández
Assistant director of access and institutional excellence and outreach, George R. Brown School of Engineering, Rice University

Constance Porter
Senior associate dean for access and institutional excellence and associate clinical professor of marketing, Jones School of Business, Rice University