Full Program Thursday | Part I

Full Program Thursday | Part II

Full Program Friday | Part I

Full Program Friday | Part II

Amanda Gorman | Vision & Justice 
Performance by Amanda Gorman 

Citizenship and Racial Narratives
Alexandra Bell, Jelani Cobb, Nicole Fleetwood, and Makeda Best 

Originality and Invention
Carrie Mae Weems, David Adjaye, and Sarah Lewis 

Musical Opening by Wynton Marsalis
Performance by Wynton Marsalis 

Cultural Citizenship
Wynton Marsalis and Diane Paulus, moderated by Drew Gilpin Faust 

Race, Culture, and Civic Space 
David Adjaye, Theaster Gates, and Sarah Lewis 

Discovering the Flint Crisis
Chelsea Clinton and Mona Hanna-Attisha 

Race, Childhood, and Inequality in the Political Realm
Yara Shahidi and Naomi Wadler, moderated by Robin Bernstein 

Hank Willis Thomas Interview
Hank Willis Thomas and Cheryl Finley  

Turnaround Arts [White House Program] 
Melody Barnes and Damian Woetzel, moderated by Kimberly Drew 

Joy Buolamwini, “AI, Ain’t I a Woman?”
Spoken word by Joy Buolamwini 

Race, Technology, and Algorithmic Bias
Joy Buolamwini, Latanya Sweeney, and Darren Walker 

Mass Incarceration and Visual Narratives
Danielle Allen, Elizabeth Hinton, and Bryan Stevenson  

David Adjaye, architect and principal, Adjaye Associates 

Elizabeth Alexander, poet, educator, memoirist, scholar, and arts activist; chancellor, Academy of American Poets; president, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 

Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor and director of the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University 

Lawrence S. Bacow, president, Harvard University 

Melody C. Barnes, distinguished fellow at the School of Law, Compton Visiting Professor in World Politics and senior fellow at the Miller Center, and codirector for policy and public affairs for the Democracy Initiative, University of Virginia 

Alexandra Bell, multidisciplinary artist 

Maurice Berger, research professor and chief curator, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 

Robin Bernstein, Dillon Professor of American History and professor of African and African American studies and of studies of women, gender, & sexuality, Harvard University 

Makeda Best, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, Harvard Art Museums, and lecturer on history of art and architecture, Harvard University  

Lawrence D. Bobo, Dean of Social Sciences, Harvard College Professor, and W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University 

Vincent Brown, Charles Warren Professor of History and professor of African and African American studies, Harvard University 

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, and professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University 

Joy Buolamwini, founder, Algorithmic Justice League 

Chelsea Clinton, vice chair, Clinton Foundation 

Jelani Cobb, Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism, Columbia University; staff writer, New Yorker 

Teju Cole, photography critic, New York Times Magazine; Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing, Harvard University 

Kasseem Dean (Swizz Beatz), record producer, rapper, and DJ 

Kimberly Drew, writer, curator, and activist 

Ava DuVernay, writer, director, producer, and film distributor 

Michael Famighetti, editor, Aperture magazine 

Drew Gilpin Faust, president emeritus, Harvard University 

Cheryl Finley, associate professor of art history, Cornell University 

Nicole R. Fleetwood, associate professor of American studies and graduate faculty in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 

LaToya Ruby Frazier, photographer; video artist; and associate professor of photography, School of the Art Institute of Chicago 

Alan M. Garber, provost, Harvard University; Mallinckrodt Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School; professor of economics, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; professor of public policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; and professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University 

Theaster Gates, founder and executive director, Rebuild Foundation; inaugural distinguished artist in residence and director of artist initiatives, Lunder Institute for American Art; professor, Department of Visual Arts, the University of Chicago 

Claudine Gay, Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University 

Amanda Gorman, National Youth Poet Laureate 

Agnes Gund, philanthropist and art collector; founder, Art for Justice Fund; president emerita, Museum of Modern Art 

Catherine Gund, producer, director, writer, and activist; founder and director, Aubin Pictures 

Mona Hanna-Attisha, assistant professor of pediatrics and human development and founder and director of the Michigan State University–Hurley Children's Hospital Pediatric Public Health Initiative, Michigan State University 

Elizabeth Hinton, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department History and the Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University 

Sadie Rain Hope-Gund, photographer and writer 

Vijay Iyer, composer and pianist; Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts in the Department of Music and Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University 

Robin Kelsey, Dean of Arts and Humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography, Harvard University 

Peter W. Kunhardt Jr., executive director, The Gordon Parks Foundation 

Franklin Leonard, film executive; founder, the Black List 

Sarah Lewis, associate professor of history of art and architecture and African and African American studies, Harvard University 

Wynton Marsalis, musician, composer, and bandleader; managing and artistic director, Jazz at Lincoln Center 

Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design, Harvard University 

Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and professor of history, race, and public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University 

Diane Paulus, Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater and professor of the practice of theatre in the Department of English, Harvard University 

Leigh Raiford, associate professor and H. Michael and Jeanne Williams Chair of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley 

Tommie Shelby, Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences 

Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director, Equal Justice Initiative; professor of clinical law, New York University 

Latanya Sweeney, professor of government and technology in residence, Department of Government, Harvard University 

Martha Tedeschi, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director, Harvard Art Museums 

Hank Willis Thomas, conceptual artist 

Naomi Wadler, activist 

Darren Walker, president, Ford Foundation 

Carrie Mae Weems, artist 

Deborah Willis, university professor and chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts and director of the Institute of African American Affairs, New York University 

Damian Woetzel, president, the Juilliard School