Former United States Ambassador to South Africa, Duke University Professor of the Practice of Public Policy Studies and Leader-in-Residence at the Hart Leadership Program
Paul Mellon Professor of American History at Cambridge University; Author: The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement
Dr. Douglas Brinkley
Director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies and Professor of History at the University of New Orleans; Author: A Biography of Rosa Parks and The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter’s Journey Beyond the White House
Dr. Adam Fairclough
Distinguished professor of history at East Anglia University; Author: To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr. and Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana
The Honorable Moon Landrieu
Former Mayor of New Orleans and United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Dr. Charles Vincent
Distinguished professor of history at Southern University; Author: The African American Experience in Louisiana
