BLACK MIDWEST INITIATIVE COUNCIL

TAMIRA AMIN

​ADAM BLEDSOE

University of Minnesota

​ROSE BREWER​

University of Minnesota
​Resource Coordinator

KIDIOCUS CARROLL​

University of Minnesota
Resource Coordinator

LAUREN ELDRIDGE

University of Minnesota
​Social Media Coordinator

FREDA FAIR

Indiana University Bloomington
​Program Committee

MELISSA FORD

Slippery Rock University
​Program Committee

TIA-SIMONE GARDNER

​Macalester College

TAMA HAMILTON-WRAY

Michigan State University
Program Committee

DURIEL E. HARRIS

Illinois State University

ASHLEY HOWARD

University of Iowa

JANE HENDERSON

University of California, Berkeley
Events Coordinator

ZENZELE ISOKE

University of Minnesota

EZEKIEL JOUBERT III

Cal State, Los Angeles
​Program Committee

RAHSAAN MAHADEO

Georgetown University
​Program Committee

JAMAAL MAY

Wayne State University
​Co-Chair, Program Committee

CRYSTAL MOTEN

Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Program Committee

DENISE PIKE

Tech & Design Coordinator

THOMAS REDD

Hennepin County Library
​Program Committee

JAMALA ROGERS

Organization for Black Struggle

NAYYIRAH SHARIFF

Flint Rising

KATHERINE SIMÓNE REYNOLDS​

CATHERINE SQUIRES

University of Minnesota
​Program Committee

DEVONA THOMAS

Hamline University
Program Committee

CHAUN WEBSTER

TERRION WILLIAMSON

University of Minnesota
Director 
Co-Chair, Program Committee

TAMARA WINFREY-HARRIS

Program Committee

JEFF WRAY

Michigan State University
Program Committee

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ADVISORY BOARD

Lisa Marie Brimmer, Artist/Organizer, Twin Cities

Keona K. Ervin, Associate Professor, University of Missouri

Aaron K. Foley, Director, Black Media Initiative, CUNY

Tanisha C. Ford, Professor, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Michelle S. Johnson, Public Scholar, Michigan

Erik McDuffie, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign