ENTERTAINERS & SPEAKERS

ENTERTAINERS:

After the Storm
(A local a capella quartet)

Ballet Folklorico Ritmos del Peru
(Traditional Peruvian Dance Troupe)

Duke Ellington Choir
(a 30 member Washington, DC High School Choir)

Hip-Hop Education, Inc., (Positive, educational music youth group)

Maharold Peoples Jr. and the Tribe of Praise
(a 14 member Gospel Choir)

Michele Smith Miller

Proverbs, Reggae Band (Tentative)

W-Cuno and P-Bloke
(Raeggeton Musical Sensation from Arlington, VA)

SPEAKERS:

Christine Brooks-Cropper
(a member of DC Young Democrats, Community Leader, and Entrepreneur)

Lamont Carey
(Director/Activist/Spoken Word Artist)

Ayawna Chase
(President of DC Young Democrats)

Aaron Cunningham
(Generation Obama, DC local community leader )

Jordan Hines
(Young Christian for Obama and community activist in DE)

Dr. Gail Anderson Holness
(President of Greater Washington Inter-Faith Council, Human Rights Activist, Motivational Speaker, Author, Law Professor)

Wessita McKinley
(Sistas United Grassroots Organizer/Community Activist/Mentor)

Bernard Ofori-Atta
(UnityforObama group and community leader from Ghana)

Jeffrey Richardson
(Chair for Obama4UnityBeatsMcCain, and Vice Chair of District of Columbia Democratic State Committee)

Robert Rideout, (Veteran, Served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and awarded Bronze Star)

Shirley Rivens-Smith
(President – DC US Africa Sister Cities)

Frank Wu
(Author, Yellow: Race in America, Beyond Black and White; Law Professor)