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Lee Bynum is a composer and librettist of opera and serves as the executive director of Maestra Music.
As a freshman at Columbia, Jean-Jacques had an internship with the National Urban League, where he now works as an attorney.
Katori Hall is a Pulitzer Prize and Olivier Award-winning playwright and television creator/producer hailing from Memphis, Tennessee.
Shibley has written extensively about racial science and is now a visiting scholar at Yale.
Colby King is an arts leader, educator, and advocate whose work sits at the intersection of culture, justice, and community.
Zinga A. Fraser is an associate professor of Africana Studies at Brooklyn College, where she is director of The Shirley Chisholm Project on Brooklyn Women’s Activism.
More than 30 alumni, family and friends attended an alumni reception at the annual conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
The award is in recognition of his work building pathways for queer and trans artists of color and preserving the cultural legacy of the Kiki ballroom community.