Advancing Equal Opportunity for All

Join the National Urban League and its advocacy partners on Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at 11:30 am EST for a powerful and timely conversation about the critical challenges facing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) today. The Demand Diversity Roundtable, a live-streamed event, will bring together prominent leaders from diverse communities to explore the immediate threats posed by the new administration's anticipated policies.

This discussion will examine 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 will underscore the importance of collective action and call for standing against policies that threaten progress.

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
Melanie Campbell, President and CEO, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation	Juan Proaño, CEO, League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)	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	Sheila Katz, CEO, National Council of Jewish Women
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	Fatima Goss Graves, President and CEO, National Women’s Law Center