Maker Directory

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EntertainmentMakers

Harry Belafonte

Entertainer

EntertainmentMakers

Kim Fields

Television Actress, Television Director, Actress

EducationMakers

Rebecca "Becky" Love

Elementary School Teacher, Yoga Instructor

EntertainmentMakers

William Greaves

Documentary Filmmaker, Stage Actor, Film Director

EducationMakers

Adelaide Sanford

Education Administrator, Elementary School Teacher

EducationMakers

Lionel McMurren

Junior High School Principal

EducationMakers

Paul Cooke

College President

EducationMakers

Jessica B. Harris

Culinary Historian, English Professor

EducationMakers

Robert B. Hill

Sociology Professor

EducationMakers

Jessie Gladden

Social Studies Curriculum Supervisor

EducationMakers

Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

History Professor

EducationMakers

Rafael Cortada

College President

EntertainmentMakers

Daphne Maxwell Reid

Television Actress, Actress

EducationMakers

Hubie Jones

Social Worker, Academic Administrator

EntertainmentMakers

Louis Cameron Gossett, Jr.

Actor

ArtMakers, EntertainmentMakers

Janet Angel MacLachlan

Stage Actress, Film Actress

EducationMakers

Katherine Jones

Civil Rights Activist, Historian, Nonprofit Executive, Academic Administrator

EducationMakers

Lorenzo Morris

Political Science Professor

EntertainmentMakers, MusicMakers

Diahann Carroll

Film Actress, Singer

EducationMakers

James Lowell Gibbs, Jr.

Cultural Anthropology Professor

MedicalMakers, EducationMakers

Dr. Helene Gayle

Epidemiologist, University President

EducationMakers

Joyce F. Brown

University President

EducationMakers, ArtMakers

E. Ethelbert Miller

Academic Administrator, Poet

SportsMakers, EducationMakers

Harrison B. Wilson

University President, College Basketball Coach

EntertainmentMakers

Judy Richardson

Film Producer

EducationMakers

J. Herman Blake

Sociology Professor, University President

EntertainmentMakers

Sheila Frazier

Actress, Television Producer

EntertainmentMakers

Bill Duke

Actor, Film Director

ScienceMakers, EducationMakers

Allen Sessoms

Physicist, University President

EducationMakers

Clayborne Carson

African American History Professor

EntertainmentMakers

Derek Ferguson

Entertainment Chief Executive

EntertainmentMakers

Malik Yoba

Actor

EntertainmentMakers

Whoopi Goldberg

Film Actress, Actress, Comedian

ArtMakers, EntertainmentMakers

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Actor, Screenwriter, Stage Director

EducationMakers

Geoffrey Canada

Education Administrator

EntertainmentMakers

Richard Roundtree

Film Actor

EntertainmentMakers

Vanessa Williams

Film Actress, Singer

EducationMakers

Roberto "Bert" Ifill

Academic Administrator

EntertainmentMakers, BusinessMakers

Stephanie Tavares-Rance

Producer, Marketing Chief Executive

EntertainmentMakers

Marcia Smith

Film Producer

EducationMakers

Nola Lancaster Whiteman

Education Administrator

EducationMakers

Thomas A. Parham

Academic Administrator, College President

EducationMakers

Paula Giddings

Professor

EducationMakers

Paula Allen-Meares

Academic Administrator

EducationMakers, MedicalMakers

Dr. Paula A. Johnson

University President, Cardiologist

EducationMakers

Mark Anthony Neal

African American Studies Professor, Historian

EducationMakers

Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom

Sociologist, Columnist

EntertainmentMakers

Charles D. King

Entertainment Chief Executive, Talent Agent

EducationMakers

Robin D. G. Kelley

African American Studies Professor, Historian

EntertainmentMakers

Floyd A.B. Rance III

Cinematographer, Film Festival Founder