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Featured Speakers<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Dr. Shaun Harper
<\/span>Monday, October 5 | 12:00-1:00 p.m. ET<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dr. Shaun Harper<\/strong> is a provost professor in the Rossier School of Education and the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California (USC). He also serves as the Clifford and Betty Allen Chair in Urban Leadership, founder and executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center, president-elect of the American Educational Research Association and a past president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education.<\/p>\n

Dr. Harper\u2019s research focuses primarily on race, gender and other dimensions of equity in an array of organizational contexts, including K-12 schools, colleges and universities, and corporations. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and other academic publications, and his research has been cited in nearly 12,000 published studies. Johns Hopkins University Press is publishing his 13th book, Race Matters in College<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/em>, Los Angeles Times<\/em>, Washington Post<\/em>, Wall Street Journal\u00a0<\/em>and several thousand other news outlets have quoted Dr. Harper and featured his research. He has interviewed on CNN, ESPN and NPR and has testified to the U.S. House of Representatives and presented his research at various White House and U.S. Department of Education convenings. He was appointed to President Barack Obama\u2019s My Brother\u2019s Keeper advisory council in 2015 and recognized in Education Week<\/em> as one of the 10 Most Influential Professors in the field of education in 2017.<\/p>\n

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Panel Discussion – Back to Campus: Challenges, Successes
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Tuesday, October 6 | 12:00-1:00 p.m. ET<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"The return to campus this fall has created many challenges for higher ed HR leaders, but there have also been successes and opportunities that we should acknowledge and build upon. During this session, you’ll hear from a university president and a chief academic officer and the chief HR officers who have been working alongside them to create a safe learning and working environment. Our panelists will address the challenges faced during the preparation for the fall semester, as well as current challenges and opportunities as we learn to operate in a different environment. Panelists are Dr. Paul Gore<\/strong>, provost at Bellarmine University; Lynn Bynum<\/strong>, chief HR officer at Bellarmine University; Ruth Watkins<\/strong>, president of University of Utah; and Jeff Herring<\/strong>, chief HR officer at University of Utah. Susan Norton<\/strong>, CUPA-HR board chair and vice president for HR at Augusta University,\u00a0will facilitate the conversation.\u00a0
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Wes Moore<\/a><\/h2>\n

Wednesday, October 7 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. ET<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Wes Moore<\/strong> is the CEO of Robin Hood, one of the largest anti-poverty forces in the nation. He is a bestselling author, a combat veteran and a social entrepreneur.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moore’s first book, <\/span>The Other Wes Moore<\/em>, a perennial <\/span>New York Times <\/em>bestseller, captured the nation\u2019s attention on the fine line between success and failure in our communities and in ourselves. That story has been optioned by executive producer Oprah Winfrey and HBO to be made into a movie. He is also the author of the bestselling books <\/span>The Work<\/em>, <\/span>Discovering Wes Moore<\/em>, and <\/span>This Way Home<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moore grew up in Baltimore and the Bronx, where he was raised by a single mom. Despite childhood challenges, he graduated Phi Theta Kappa from Valley Forge Military College in 1998 and Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University in 2001. He earned a master’s in International Relations from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 2004. Moore then served as a captain and paratrooper with the U.S. Army\u2019s 82nd Airborne, including a combat deployment to Afghanistan. He later served as a White House Fellow to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before becoming CEO at Robin Hood, Moore was the founder and CEO at BridgeEdU, an innovative tech platform addressing the college completion and job placement crisis. BridgeEdU reinvents freshman year for underserved students. Moore remains chairman of the board of directors at BridgeEdU. He has also worked in finance as an investment banker with Deutsche Bank in London and with Citigroup in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moore’s proudest accomplishments are his two children with his wife Dawn.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sponsored by:\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>\"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr. Michael J. Sorrell<\/a><\/h2>\r\nSunday, October 20 | 5:00-6:15 p.m.\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\nDr. Michael J. Sorrell\u00a0<\/b>is the longest-serving president in the 146-year history of Paul Quinn College. During his 11 years of leadership, Paul Quinn College has become a small, private, minority-serving institution that, by focusing on the most persistent, prevalent and pressing problems of our society, is remaking higher education and becoming a movement.\r\n\r\nDuring President Sorrell\u2019s tenure, Paul Quinn College has won the HBCU of the Year, the HBCU Student Government Association of the Year and the HBCU Business Program of the Year. Additional achievements include the college being recognized as a member of the President\u2019s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the creation of the New Urban College Model, achievement of full-accreditation\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n
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Whitney Johnson<\/a><\/h2>\r\nMonday, October 21 | 8:30-10:15 a.m.\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\"\"Whitney Johnson<\/strong>, CEO of WLJ Advisors, is an innovation and disruption theorist, best-selling author, sought-after executive and performance coach, and management consultant. She is recognized as one of the world\u2019s most influential management thinkers by\u00a0Thinkers50<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Fortune<\/em>. Johnson specializes in helping leaders grow their awareness, building the skills needed to achieve maximum success in their organizations. Senior executives seek out Johnson\u2019s coaching and consulting expertise because she understands that productive workplace cultures begin with the leader. She excels at helping leaders break through to new levels of personal and organizational effectiveness. Johnson\u2019s services utilize her exclusive proprietary tools, such as her S-Curve coaching framework and team disruption diagnostics, which were first developed after co-founding the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard Business School\u2019s Clayton Christensen. At WLJ Advisors, she has mastered her formula for helping executives and organizations harness the unpredictability of change so they can thrive in today\u2019s volatile business environment.\r\n\r\nJohnson\u2019s best-selling book,\u00a0Build An A-Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve,\u00a0<\/em>is being used by leaders globally to build the culture and attract the talent they need to reach their big goals. This follow-up to her critically acclaimed\u00a0Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work (2015),\u00a0<\/em>outlines the key strategy to having an engaged, productive and innovative workforce, which is having a plan for developing all employees \u2014 no matter where they are on their personal learning curves. Using her book\u2019s frameworks, Johnson works with leaders to shape how their organizations embrace and manage disruption by leading individuals and teams up the S-curve of change.\r\n\r\nPrior to WLJ Advisors, Johnson was an award-winning Wall Street analyst. She is one of Marshall Goldsmith\u2019s original cohort of 25 for the #100 Coaches Project, is a coach for the Harvard Business School\u2019s Executive Education program, frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, a LinkedIn influencer and hosts the Disrupt Yourself Podcast.\r\n\r\n
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Michele Norris<\/a><\/h2>\r\nTuesday, October 22 | 8:00-10:15 a.m.<\/strong>\r\n

\"\"<\/h2>\r\nMichele Norris<\/strong>\u00a0is a Peabody Award-winning journalist, founder of The Race Card Project and executive director of The Bridge, The Aspen Institute\u2019s new program on race, identity, connectivity and inclusion.\r\n\r\nFor more than a decade Norris served as a host of NPR\u2019s\u00a0All Things Considered\u00a0<\/em>where she interviewed world leaders, American presidents, Nobel laureates, leading thinkers and groundbreaking artists. She has also produced in-depth profiles, interviews and series for NPR News programs as well as special reports for\u00a0National Geographic<\/em>,\u00a0Time Magazine,\u00a0<\/em>ABC News and Lifetime Television. Norris created The Race Card Project, an initiative to foster a wider conversation about race in America, after the publication of her family memoir,\u00a0The Grace of Silence<\/em>.\r\n\r\nBefore joining NPR in 2002, Norris spent almost 10 years as a reporter for ABC News in the Washington Bureau. She has also worked as a staff writer for\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em>,\u00a0Chicago Tribune\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0The Los Angeles Times<\/em>. In 2014, Norris earned a Peabody award and the Distinguished Dialogue Award for her work on the Race Card Project.\r\n\r\nIn 2009, she was named \u201cJournalist of the Year\u201d by the National Association of Black Journalists. The NABJ recognized Norris for her coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign \u2014 when she co-hosted NPR\u2019s Democratic presidential candidates\u2019 debate, covered both conventions, anchored multi-hour election and inauguration live broadcasts and moderated a series of candid conversations with voters on the intersection of race and politics. That series earned Norris and\u00a0Morning Edition\u00a0<\/em>Host Steve Inskeep an Alfred I. DuPont -Columbia University Award for excellence in broadcasting.\r\n\r\nNorris was honored with NABJ\u2019s Salute to Excellence Award, for her cove","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-454","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/virtual-annual2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/virtual-annual2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/virtual-annual2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/virtual-annual2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/virtual-annual2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":61,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/virtual-annual2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1858,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/virtual-annual2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454\/revisions\/1858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/virtual-annual2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}