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Brandice Daniel is the founder of Harlem's Fashion Row (HFR) and a fashion industry expert with experience in buying, production and bridging the gap for designers of color. She has led collaborations with major brands including Nike, LVMH, Tommy Hilfiger, and Tiffany & Co. In 2020, she founded a non-profit organization, ICON360 that has donated over $2 million to HBCU fashion departments and black designers.
Her achievements have been recognized by various organizations including Forbes, Good Morning America, Fashion Institute of Technology, and Vogue. Brandice is also a proud mom to Sky and wife to Richard Daniel.
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Jelani Cobb joined the Columbia Journalism School faculty in 2016 and became Dean in 2022. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2015. He received a Peabody Award for his 2020 PBS Frontline film Whose Vote Counts? and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary in 2018. He has also been a political analyst for MSNBC since 2019.
He is the author of The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress and To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic. He is the editor or co-editor of several volumes including The Matter of Black Lives, a collection of The New Yorker’s writings on race and The Essential Kerner Commission Report. He is producer or co-producer on a number of documentaries including Lincoln’s Dilemma, Obama: A More Perfect Union and Policing the Police.
Dr. Cobb was educated at Jamaica High School in Queens, NY, Howard University, where he earned a B.A. in English, and Rutgers University, where he completed his MA and doctorate in American History in 2003. He is also a recipient of fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation and the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Journalism Project, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2023.
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Antonia Hylton is a Peabody and two-time Emmy award-winning Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, and the New York Times bestselling author of MADNESS. She is also the cohost of the hit podcasts Southlake and Grapevine.
From 2016 to 2020, Antonia was a Correspondent and Producer for Vice Media and HBO’s nightly news and documentary show, Vice News Tonight. Since 2019, she has also served as an annual judge for the American Mosaic Journalism Prize.
Antonia’s won several awards, including Emmys for education and immigration reporting, two Gracie Awards for her stories about women, a NAMIC Vision Award for reporting on violence and politics in Chicago, and two Front Page Awards for special reporting and breaking news.
Antonia graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 2015, where she received prizes for her writing and investigative research on race, mass incarceration, and the history of psychiatry. 
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Matthew Jordan Smith is a renowned professional photographer based in Tokyo, Japan. With a dynamic career spanning Tokyo, New York City, and Los Angeles, he has captured iconic images of world-renowned figures, including Oprah Winfrey, Angelina Jolie, Angela Bassett, Sofia Vergara, Samuel L. Jackson, Queen Latifah, Courtney B. Vance, Tyra Banks, Britney Spears, and Zendaya. Esteemed brands like Shiseido, Clé de Peau Beauté, Olay, Pantene, Revlon, Speedo, Coca-Cola, Intel, Toyota, and HBO have trusted him with their visual narratives.
While his professional achievements are vast, Matthew passionately dedicates his free time to personal projects, showcasing his work through books and photo exhibits. He has penned three acclaimed books: Sepia Dreams, Lost & Found, and Future American President. His upcoming masterpiece, Aretha Cool, is set to launch March 8, 2024.
Over the years, Matthew has been recognized for his exceptional talent, bagging prestigious accolades such as the Vision Award, the George Eastman Power of Image award, and the Western Digital Spotlight Award. He is a Nikon Ambassador, and represented in New York City by the esteemed photo agency, LVA Represents.
Learn more at www.MatthewJordanSmith.com
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Tanisha C. Ford is a cultural critic and star academic. A professor of history at The Graduate Center, CUNY, she has written for the New York Times, the Atlantic, Time,
the Root, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, and featured on NPR, among other places. In 2019, she was named to the Root’s list of the 100 Most influential African Americans. Ford is
the author of Dressed in Dreams, Kwame Brathwaite: Black is Beautiful, and Liberated Threads, which won the 2016 Organization of American Historians’ Liberty Legacy
Foundation Award for best book on civil rights history. She lives in Harlem. For more information visit: www.tanishacford.com. Follow her on social media: @SoulistaPhD
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Rhonda Ross is an Emmy-Nominated Actress, Grammy-Nominated Songwriter and Motivational Singer who helps people FEEL BETTER through the POWER of THOUGHT.
​As the only child between Diana Ross and Motown founder, Berry Gordy, Rhonda is quick to acknowledge the luck she was born into having two of the world’s most influential people as her parents, however, partly as a result of comparing herself to them and their accomplishments, Rhonda painfully struggled with insecurity, self-esteem, depression, and feelings of being unfulfilled.
​Finally, she embraced The Power of Thought and started to FEEL BETTER. It all began with a Crucial First Step...
​Now, through her invigorating music, impactful workshops and inspiring keynote presentations, Rhonda empowers others with tools and strategies to activate and implement their Power of Thought so they can feel better, no matter what life throws at them.
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