Dr Johnnetta Betsch Cole

A scholar, anthropologist, and academic pace-setter, Johnnetta Betsch Cole’s pioneering work about the on-going contributions of Afro-Latin, Caribbean, and African communities have advanced American understanding of Black culture and the necessity and power of racial inclusion in the US.

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Dr Elizabeth Alexander

Poet, scholar, and cultural advocate; a nationally recognized thought leader on race, justice, and American society and president of the Mellon Foundation, the largest funder of the arts, culture, and humanities in the United States.

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Marie McDonald

McDonald is not only the islands’ best-known practitioner of the art of Hawaiian lei making, but she is also its primary scholar.

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Dr Intan Paramaditha

Intan Paramaditha, Indonesian of Sumatran-Sundanese heritage, anticolonial feminist academic and writer based in Australia, is one of the co-founders of Sekolah Pemikiran Perempuan (The School of Women’s Thought).

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