Congresswoman Maxine Waters to Rebut President
Trump’s State of the Union Address
Rashad Robinson, State Legislator Stacey
Abrams, David Johns, Mayor Melvin Carter, Opal Tometi, Stefanie
Brown James to Join Program’s Special Guest Panel
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The special will feature Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA,
43rd District) delivering an exclusive rebuttal to the
president’s state of the union address. Representative
Waters is widely recognized as one of the most outspoken political
leaders against Donald Trump’s presidency and his
administration; she has called for his impeachment on
several occasions.
Also joining the program’s guest panel: Spokesperson of Color Of
Change PAC, Rashad Robinson; Democratic candidate for
Georgia Governor and former House Minority Leader, Stacey
Abrams; Executive Director of the National Black Justice
Coalition, David Johns; St. Paul, MN mayor, Melvin
Carter; Executive Director of The Black Alliance for Just
Immigration (BAJI), Opal Tometi; DC Insider and public
affairs strategist, Stefanie Brown James.
Rye and the expert panel will discuss President Trump’s first
year in office, exploring how his agenda is affecting
African-Americans. The special will also explore ways to increase
and mobilize black political power to enact change.
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About the Panelists:
Rashad Robinson
Rashad Robinson is the Executive Director of Color of Change,
the nation’s largest online racial justice organization. As a force
driven by over one million members, Color of Change moves decision
makers in corporations and government to create a more human and
less hostile world for Black people, and all people. Rashad has
developed winning strategies to change the rules of many fields
affecting Black people’s lives: employment and the economy, voting
and politics, news and entertainment, criminal justice. He has
appeared in hundreds of media outlets including ABC, CNN, MSNBC,
BET, NPR, The New York Times and Huffington Post. He was a 2015
EBONY Magazine "Power 100" honoree, and on “The Root 100” for the
last six years. Fast Company named Color Of Change the 6th Most
Innovative Company in the world (2015), and the Stanford Social
Innovation Review profiled its strategies for “pursuing the fight
for racial justice at Internet speed” in both online and offline
venues.
Stacey Abrams
The former top Democrat in the Georgia legislature, candidate
for Governor of Georgia and former House Minority Leader Stacey
Abrams received degrees from Spelman College, the LBJ School of
Public Affairs at the University of Texas, and Yale Law School. As
co-founder of NOW Account – a financial services firm that helps
small businesses grow – Stacey has helped create and retain jobs in
Georgia. Through her various business ventures, Stacey has helped
employ even more Georgians. As House Minority Leader, she has
worked strategically to recruit, train, elect, and defend Democrats
to prevent a Republican supermajority in the House, and has worked
across the aisle on behalf of all Georgians. During her tenure as
House Minority Leader, she has stopped legislation to raise taxes
on the poor and middle class and to roll back reproductive
healthcare. She has brokered compromises that led to progress on
transportation, infrastructure, and education. Dedicated to civic
engagement, she founded the New Georgia Project, which registered
more than 200,000 voters of color between 2014 and 2016. And under
the pen name Selena Montgomery, Stacey is the award-winning author
of eight romantic suspense novels, which have sold more than
100,000 copies.
Melvin Carter
Melvin Carter is a fourth-generation Saint Paul resident, Saint
Paul Public School graduate, former Saint Paul City Council member,
father, and Mayor of Saint Paul, MN. He lives in Saint Paul’s Rondo
neighborhood with his wife, Sakeena, and three of their five
children. He is the son of a police officer and a teacher (who
later became a County Commissioner), both of whom instilled in him
the value of community and public service. Melvin’s passion for
civic engagement began in 2000, when as a college student his
brother-in-law was turned away from casting an all-important
Presidential election ballot in a Florida polling precinct. After
arguing for his brother-in-law’s right to vote and protesting that
year’s historic acts of disenfranchisement in the Florida State
Capitol, Melvin found himself on a path toward public service.
Since then, Melvin has been working to engage, enfranchise, and
uplift people in Saint Paul and across the state and nation. He’s
trained political candidates, community organizers and campaign
staff in over 30 states with several national organizations,
including Wellstone Action.
David Johns
David J. Johns is known for his passion, public policy acumen
and fierce advocacy for youth. He is an enthusiast about
equity—leveraging his time, talent and treasures to address the
needs of individuals and communities often neglected and ignored. A
recognized thought leader and social justice champion, David’s
career has focused on improving life outcomes and opportunities for
Black people. On September 1, 2017, David Johns began his next life
chapter as the executive director of the National Black Justice
Coalition (NBJC)—a civil rights organization dedicated to the
empowerment of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer
(LGBTQ) people, including people living with HIV/AIDS. NBJC’s
mission is to end racism, homophobia, and LGBTQ bias and stigma. In
2013, Johns was appointed as the first executive director of the
White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African
Americans (Initiative) by President Barack H. Obama and served
until the last day of the Obama Administration in January, 2017.
Johns has been featured as an influential politico and advocate by
several publications and outlets, including TheRoot.com, NBC, EBONY
and The Washington Post. Johns is a prominent strategist who offers
commentary for several media outlets including BET, CNN,
EducationPost and TV One.
Opal Tometi
Opal Tometi is a New York based Nigerian-American writer,
strategist and community organizer. Ms. Tometi is a Co-founder of
#BlackLivesMatter. The historic political project was launched in
the wake of the murder of Trayvon Martin in order to explicitly
combat implicit bias and anti-black racism and to protect and
affirm the beauty and dignity of all Black lives. Ms. Tometi is
credited with creating the online platforms and initiating the
social media strategy during the project’s early days. Ms. Tometi
is currently at the helm of the country’s leading Black
organization for immigrant rights, the Black Alliance for Just
Immigration (BAJI) founded in 2006, is a national organization that
educates and advocates to further immigrant rights and racial
justice together with African-American, Afro-Latino, African and
Caribbean immigrant communities. As the Executive Director at BAJI,
Opal collaborates with staff and communities in Los Angeles,
Phoenix, New York, Oakland, Washington, DC and communities
throughout the Southern states. The organization’s most recent
campaign helped win family reunification visas for Haitians
displaced by the 2010 earthquake. BAJI is an award winning
institution with recognition by leading intuitions across the
country.
Stefanie Brown-James
Stefanie Brown James is a master of making the political,
personal. As an experienced social entrepreneur, Stefanie is the
Co-Founder and Senior Advisor for The Collective – a consortium of
political action organizations including The Collective PAC and The
Collective Super PAC – dedicated to recruiting, training, funding
and supporting black candidates to run for office on the local,
state and federal level. Founded in August of 2016, The Collective
has raised over $500,000 from 13,000+ individual contributions and
organizations to support 39 endorsed candidates and launched a
national campaign training operation to prepare campaigns to win. A
native of Cleveland, Ohio, Stefanie is also the CEO and Founding
Partner of Vestige Strategies, LLC – a Washington, DC based
community engagement firm that specializes in grassroots community
and civic engagement strategies. In 2012, Stefanie served as the
National African American Vote Director for the Obama for America
Campaign where she created and managed the national strategy to
engage African American leaders and voters to re-elect President
Barack Obama, leading to the highest black voter turnout in
history.
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