Fabian Badejo
Publisher & Editor, St. Martin Business Week
Charles C. Bergman
Chair, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell
Dean, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Allan Edmunds
President, Brandywine Workshop
Josianne Fleming-Artsen
Director of Education, St. Martin University
Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Chair, Department of African and African American Studies,
Harvard University
Sam Gilliam
Artist
Thelma Golden
Executive Director and Curator
The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
Irene Gumbs
Fundraiser
Agnes Gund
Trustee & Former President
Museum of Modern Art, NY
Tonya Lewis Lee
Author and Producer
Glenda Noel-Ney
Director of Development, College of Letters and Science,
University of Wisconsin Foundation
Dr. Robert O'Meally
Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English,
& Director, Center for Jazz Studies Columbia University, NY
Dr. Richard J. Powell
John Spencer Bassett Professor, American, Afro-American and African
Art, Duke University
Derek Walcott
Poet, Playwright &
Nobel Laureate