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Our speakers are newsmakers, trendsetters and are some of the leading voices in media, communications and politics. Click on the links below to learn more about them and start the booking process today.
Bianca Crawford Shelton
Bianca Crawford Shelton is an entrepreneur, professor and blogger. Her career spans nearly 20 years of public relations, marketing, strategic planning and education experience. In 2013, Bianca began her teaching career at Claflin University in the Department of Mass Communications, where she teaches the Public Relations sequence, entrepreneurship, and advertising courses.
Jemele Hill
Emmy Award winning journalist, Jemele Hill is the Co-Founder of Lodge Freeway Media and a contributing writer for The Atlantic. In April 2019, Hill debuted a new podcast on Spotify, called Jemele Hill is Unbothered. Unbothered explores the news of the day and the intersectionality between the worlds of sports, politics, music, identity and culture. She is also the co-host of the popular VICE television show Stick to Sports with Cari Champion.
Judi Gatson
Judi Gatson is an evening anchor for WIS, the dominant television station in the Columbia, SC television market. As an anchor of WIS News at 5pm, WIS at 6pm, Judi reports on and anchors some of the biggest stories around the state. Judi's presentations center around her passion, her purpose and strong principles.
Dr. Baron Davis
A visionary educational leader with a career spanning over two decades, Dr. Baron R. Davis serves as the superintendent of Richland School District Two. No stranger to trailblazing, Dr. Davis became the district’s first African American to hold this position upon his appointment in 2017.