Our publicity campaigns over the years have offered clients the valuable opportunity to engage with their targeted audience at private events, bookstores, retail stores, tech companies, professional conferences, colleges and universities, TEDx events, and more. Now we are offering speakers beyond their book launch season.
If you are looking for a strong African-American professional speaker to book for a conference keynote, commencement, moderator for a high-level panel, commentary for a cultural or historical docu-series or film, freshman orientation, or workshop facilitator, we can help. Our clients offer dynamic and impactful conversations and presentations that are sure to inspire any audience.
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Martin McNair Founder of The Jordan McNair Foundation, Marty McNair is a father, thought leader, motivational speaker, and youth sports safety advocate.
Following the death of his son, Jordan, Marty began spreading his message of player safety to parents, coaches, and student-athletes across the country. His story has appeared on Good Morning America, CNN, ESPN, Sports Center, and HBO’s Real Sports. Since Jordan’s passing in 2018, Martin has worked with Legislators in the state of Maryland to get 3 student-athlete safety laws passed. The Jordan McNair Youth Safety Protection Act enacted in 2019 protects student-athletes at the youth level of competition ensuring that all sports organizations who utilize Baltimore City Parks and Recreational Facilities are trained in player safety. The Jordan McNair Act 2020 is a policy that will give all student-athletes a voice to express themselves to the institutions’ administration who are not directly involved in athletic programs or activities addressing safety concerns anonymously and confidentially.
Visit the Jordan McNair Foundation YouTube page to view some videos.
Lisa Bonner, Esq A successful entrepreneur for over 20 years as managing attorney of Bonner Law PC, Lisa represents clients in all aspects of media and entertainment transactional matters. She provides counsel for large media companies, film distribution companies, music, television and film producers, and independent artists, producers, writers and publishers. The Entertainment and IP attorney is also author of the The LegaliTEAS of Entrepreneurship: The Relentless Pursuit of Excellence and Balance in Starting Your Own Business which has been featured in Yahoo Finance, Essence and Finurah. Bonner graduated with honors from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism and received and a J.D. from New York University School of Law. She is a member of silver-star soror with Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated.
Access her speaker sheet here.
Janus Adams Emmy Award-winning journalist, historian, entrepreneur, and bestselling author of eleven books, Dr. Janus Adams is the host of public radio’s “The Janus Adams Show” and podcast. Her 19-hour International Women’s Day marathon broadcasts brought her to NPR as the network’s first National Arts Correspondent and opened the New York News Bureau. Indeed, Dr. Adams has been engaged by history and culture since childhood. A northern school desegregation pioneer at 8, she was one of the four children selected to break New York’s de facto segregation in the public schools in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education.
A classically-trained pianist, she is a graduate of New York’s High School of Performing Arts. Her master’s is the nation’s first graduate degree in Black Studies. Her honors include Doctor of Humane Letters degrees from Shaw University and the State University of New York.
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Menah Pratt is a scholar-activist, academic, advocate, and womanist. Pratt is the Vice President for Strategic Affairs and Diversity at Virginia Tech. She is also a Professor of Education in the School of Education in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, with affiliations in Africana Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and the Department of Sociology. She has almost 25 years of leadership experience in higher education, with a focus on large-scale institutional transformation. She was selected as the 2021 Inclusive Excellence Individual Leadership Award recipient by the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education. She is founder of the Faculty Women of Color in the Academy National Conference (11 th year) and the Black College Institute at Virginia Tech (6th year). She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Iowa with a major in English and minors in Philosophy and African-American Studies. She received her master’s degree in Literary Studies from the University of Iowa and a master’s degree in Sociology from Vanderbilt University. In addition, she earned her Ph.D. and JD from Vanderbilt University. Her research and scholarship focus on diversity issues in higher education. She is the author of three books A Black Woman’s Journey from Cotton Picking to College Professor: Lessons about race, gender, and class in America.
Access her keynotes and awards here.
Jasmine Nichole Cobb is a Professor of African & African American Studies and of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University, where she researches Black women, popular culture, and visual representation. She is the author of 3 books, including Picture Freedom: Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century, which explores the role of images in shaping views of African American citizenship before the 13th Amendment, and African American Literature in Transition, Vol. 2 (Cambridge University Press, 2021), an edited volume focusing on Black cultural production between 1800 and 1830. Her latest book, New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair (Duke University Press, 2023), examines the idea and image of “natural hair” through close readings of hair clippings, slave narratives, scrapbooks, travel illustration, documentary film, and photography, as well as fine art.
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Dr. Jame’l Rashad Hodges is the Vice President For Student Success And Engagement at Edward Waters College. Boasting of a superlative record for supporting overall student development and achievement as a seasoned and progressive student success and engagement leader in higher education, Dr. Jame’l Hodges is the Vice President for Student Success & Engagement at Edward Waters College (EWC). He has twenty years of experience in the field of Higher Education and has served in leadership positions at the Corporate Office of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.; University of Georgia; California State Polytechnic University Pomona; Lehigh University; The Association of Public Land Grant Universities, Tennessee State University and most recently as Associate Vice President for Student Success and Engagement at Virginia State University. As the founder of Jamelevate an interactive workshop designed to provide students with experiential activities for leadership enhancement Dr. Hodges’ mission is to educate, motivate and uplift students from k-12 through college about the fundamentals of leadership.
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