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From the organizers:

Ashton Hall is a native of Talladega, Alabama. He is the son of Tosha Scott and Adrian Hall, and has three brothers and a sister. Educated in the Talladega City Schools and a 2019 graduate of Talladega High School, Ashton furthered his education at Talladega College where he majored in Child Development & Instruction. He plans to enroll in The University of West Alabama in the spring to pursue his masters in Child Development. A past SGA President in college, he also served as the Southern Province Junior Province Vice Polemarch of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated for the State of Alabama. After graduation, he decided to enter in the political arena and was elected as Mayor of the City of Talladega, Alabama. In the runoff election, he became the youngest person elected to the position not only in the city, but in the State of Alabama. In addition to serving the city of Talladega as Mayor, he is also employed by the Talladega County Board of Education as a Third Grade Teacher at Stemley Road Elementary.

Suzan Cook is a U.S. presidential advisor, pastor, theologian, author, activist, and academic who served as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom from April 2011 to October 2013. She has served as a policy advisor to President Bill Clinton and later to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros, a dean and professor of communications at Harvard University, a professor of theology at New York Theological Seminary, a pastor at a number of churches, a television producer, and the author of nearly a dozen books. She was the first female senior pastor in the 200-year history of the Mariners Temple Baptist Church in NYC part of the American Baptist Churches USA and a close friend of Coretta Scott King. She is an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.

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From the organizers:

Join ECHO in hosting their 11th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration. 

Panelists:

Robert Appel, Former Director of the Vermont Human Rights Commission
Kim Carson, City of Burlington, Director of Racial Equity
Emiliano Void, Black Experience Organizer
Julia Torti, U.S. Attorney, Civil Rights Office
Pastor Arnold Thomas
James Duff Lyall, Vermont American Civil Liberties Union

From the organizers:

Keynote Speaker: Tim Wise returns to Burlington for another Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration. Tim Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and educators in the United States. He has spent the past 25 years speaking to audiences in all 50 states, on over 1,500 college and high school campuses, at hundreds of professional and academic conferences, and to community groups across the country.

Guests:

Tim Wise - Anti-Racist Activist, Author; TJ Donovan - Vermont Attorney General; Moise St. Louis - Director of Multicultural Affairs & Service, St Michael's College; Chol Dhoor - Founder and Executive Director of the Sudanese Foundation of Vermont; Bor Yang - Director of the Vermont Human Rights Commission; H. Sparks - Director of Equity Burlington School District

Association of Africans Living in Vermont, Champlain Housing Trust, City Market, First Unitarian Universalist Society, TD Bank, Howard Center, KeyBank, Mace Engravers, People’s United Bank, Spruce Mortgage, City of Burlington

Tyeastia Green, Burlington's Director of Racial Equity Inclusion and Belonging, tells the story of Juneteenth and the inaugural celebration in Burlington in the summer of 2021.