Demand Diversity Roundtable
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Advancing Equal Opportunity for All
The National Urban League and its advocacy partners hosted a powerful and timely conversation on Wednesday, January 22, 2025, at 11:30 AM EST, addressing the critical challenges facing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) today.
The Demand Diversity Roundtable, a live-streamed event, brought together prominent leaders from diverse communities to explore the immediate threats posed by the new administration’s anticipated policies.
This discussion examined the pressing need to safeguard DEI principles, confront regressive measures, and chart actionable strategies for advancing equal opportunity for all. By uniting voices from across the nation, the Roundtable underscored the importance of collective action and called for standing against policies that threaten progress. Watch the replay below.
Speakers
 Marc H. Morial, President and CEO, National Urban League |
 Janai Nelson, President and CEO, President and Director-Counsel Legal Defense Fund |
 Rev. Al Sharpton, Founder and President, National Action Network |
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 Damon Hewitt, President and Executive Director, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law |
 Rev. Shavon Arline-Bradley, President and CEO, National Council of Negro Women |
 Virginia Kase Solomón, President and CEO, Common Cause |
 Margaret L. Huang, President and CEO, the Southern Poverty Law Center |
 Maya Berry, Executive Director, Arab American Institute (AAI) |
 Brenda Victoria Castillo, President and CEO, National Hispanic Media Coalition |
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 Gregg Orton, National Director, National Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA) |
 Amy Spitalnick, CEO, Jewish Council for Public Affairs |
 Kelley Robinson, President, Human Rights Campaign Foundation |
 Alphonso David, President and CEO, Global Black Economic Forum |
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 Kimberlé Crenshaw, Co-founder and Executive Director African American Policy Forum |
