Keynote Speakers
Inside the Activists Studio
Antonio Albizures, a local immigrant rights organizer, and Dr. Vincent Harding, a long-time Civil Rights activist and educator, in conversation about the current state of education, the politics of immigration, and the power of community.
Moderated by Adeola Oredola
Antonio Albizures-LopezAntonio Albizures-Lopez was born on January 12, 1991 in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, migrating to the U.S. in the summer of 1992. Since that time he has been a proud resident of Rhode Island. He attended and graduated from Blackstone Academy Charter High School in 2009. He is currently an active member of Brown Immigrant Rights Coalition, working with undocumented youth and migrant rights throughout the State. He is also a youth leagues and high school soccer coach, works as a teacher/mentor for at risk youth in Woonsocket RI and is looking to continue his education pursuing degrees in Political Science and Sociology. |
Dr. Vincent HardingDr. Vincent Harding, historian, scholar and activist, is a Professor Emeritus of Religion and Social Transformation at Illiff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado and currently the Chairperson of the Veterans of Hope Project: A Center for the Study of Religion and Democratic Renewal. Dr. Harding was born in Harlem, NY on July 25, 1931. At the height of the Civil Rights Movement Dr. Harding’s worked closely with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and later was co-founder of the first Black think tank, the Institute for the Black World (IBW) in Atlanta, Georgia. He is well known for his close personal and professional relationship with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., for whom he drafted speeches including the famous anti-Vietnam war speech “A Time to Break Silence” which King delivered on April 4, 1967 at Riverside Church in New York City, exactly a year before he was assassinated. |