Keynote Speakers

Lynn Walker Huntley, Esq. is president of the Southern Education Foundation, a public charity focused on reducing educational inequality in the American South and abroad for low-income students, with special emphasis on persons of African descent.  An American citizen, Ms. Huntley received her A.B. in Sociology with honors from Barnard College, and J.D. degree with honors from Columbia University Law School, where she was a member of The Columbia Law Review.


Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, serves as North Carolina’s NAACP state president. Rev. Dr. Barber is a graduate of NC Central University (BA in Public Administration, cum laude) and Duke’s Divinity School, where he was a Benjamin Mays Fellow and earned a Masters of Divinity degree. Barber earned his doctoral degree at Drew University, Madison, NJ. Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is also pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, NC


J. Kameron Carter is Associate Professor in Theology and Black Church Studies at Duke University Divinity School. He received the B.A. degree from Temple University, the Th.M. degree from Dallas Theological Seminary and the Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in religious studies. The author of growing list of essay and journal articles, Professor Carter’s just-released book, Race: A Theological Account  (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008) considers the modern construction of race as a theological problem. He is finishing a book on black intellectuals and religion and has just begun a new study on the medieval origins of the modern world. Dr. Carter has just completed a fellowship as the Lilly Foundation Fellow in Religion at the National Humanities Center during 2006–07 academic year.