Michael Conteh

Graduate Research Fellow Michael Conteh is an an interdisciplinary and participatory researcher with over two decades of experience conducting research, training, and consulting in South and West Africa, Europe, and the United States of America. His favorite aspect of being an educator and researcher is enabling people to learn and grow through the application of……

Deborah Smith-Gregory

President, NAACP Newark NJ Branch Deborah Smith Gregory serves as the president of the NAACP Newark NJ Branch, the  largest in the state with over 1,000 members.  In 2020, she was re- elected as president of the Newark Branch NAACP, and is  currently serving her fourth term in office. Her focus is on educational equity……

Dr. Nancy Cantor

Chancellor, Rutgers University- Newark Nancy Cantor is Chancellor of Rutgers University – Newark. A distinguished leader in higher education, she is recognized nationally and internationally as an advocate for leveraging diversity in all its dimensions and re-emphasizing the role of universities as anchor institutions in their communities, especially by forging diverse, cross-sector collaboratives and leveraging……