A call for unity and reconciliation, for renewed hope and inspiration.
Convened By:
Penn Badgley
Performing Artist
William H. Smith, EdD
Founder and Executive Director, National Center for Race Amity
Rainn Wilson
Performing Artist and Author
The National Center for Race Amity works to advance cross-racial and cross-cultural friendship as the key tool as well as the end goal in achieving access, equity, social justice and unity in our nation.
The National Healing Summit is a call for unity and reconciliation, for renewed hope and inspiration. Respected civic, political, business and religious leaders— representing the diverse spectrum of America—will remind us of our heritage and core values and help us move Toward E Pluribus Unum.
Co-Hosts
Howard Ross
Founder, Udarta Consulting, Best-Selling Author and Activist
Celeste Headlee
NPR/CNN Journalist and Best-Selling Author
Invited Presenters
The following individuals are being invited to offer brief remarks during the Virtual National Healing Summit (in alphabetical order).
Charlie Baker
NCAA President and former Governor of Massachusetts
Ken Burns
Historian and Documentary Film Maker
George W. Bush
43rd President of the United States
John Calipari
University of Kentucky Basketball Coach
Paul Chavez
President of the Cesar Chavez Foundation
Liz Cheney
Ben Cohen
Co-Founder, Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream
Xernona Clayton
Founder, Trumpet Awards
Janet Langhart Cohen
Journalist, Playwright and Activist, Co-Founder, Race & Reconciliation in America
William E. Cohen, J.D.
Co-Founder, Race & Reconcilation in America and Former US Secretary of Defense
Johnnetta Betsch Cole, PhD
CEO/President Emeritus of the National Council of Negro Women
Cardinal Blase J. Cupich
Archbishop of Chicago
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde
Episcopal Diocese of Washington
Cathy Englebert
WNBA Commissioner
Gloria Estefan
Singer and actress
Shawn Fain
President, UAW
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Jonathan Greenblatt
CEO and National Director, Anti-Defamation League
Jerry Greenfield
Co-Founder, Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream
George Halvorson
Chairman and CEO (Retired), Kaiser Permanente
Celeste Headlee
Journalist, author, and CEO of Headway DEI Training
Robert C. Henderson
Fortune 500 management and diversity consultant
Dolores Huerta
Co-Founder, United Farm Workers
Debby Irving
Best-selling author and social activist
Derrick Johnson
NAACP President and CEO
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Historian and biographer
Martin Kim
Director of Immigration Advocacy, Advancing Justice | AAJC
Rev. Bernice King
CEO of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center For Nonviolent Social Change (The King Center)
Martin Luther King III
Former president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Wendell J. Knox
President and CEO, Abt Associates (Retired)
Mitch Landreau
Founder, E Pluribus Unum Fund and Former Mayor of New Orleans
Ed Markey
Cindy McCain
Executive Director, World Food Programme
Mitch McConnell
United States Senator
Peggy McIntosh, Ph.D.
Educator and Anti-Racist Advocate
Ryan McMahon
County Executive, Oneida Nation, Onondaga County, New York
Doug Mitchell
Founder, Next Generation Radio
Marc Morial
President and CEO, National Urban League
Dorothy Nelson, J.D.
Judge, 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals
Ernest Nieto
President and Founder, National Hispanic Institute
Dr. Buu Van Nygren, EdD
President of the Navajo Nation
Barack Obama
44th President of the United States
Sean M. O’Brien
General President, International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Edward James Olmos
Actor
Cindy Parlow Cone
President, US Soccer Federation
Dolly Parton
Humanitarian and Entertainer
Colette Phillips
Founder, Get Konnected
Sundar Pichai
CEO of Alphabet Inc.
Robert Rivers
President, Eastern Bank
Mitt Romney
Howard Ross
Author and Activist
Carlos Santana
Guitarist
Chuck Schumer
United States Senator
Rev. Al Sharpton
Social justice activist and Baptist minister
Cherry Steinwender
Co-Founder, Institutes for the Healing of Racism
Meryl Streep
Actor
Rev, Nancy Taylor, Ph.D.
Retired Senior Minister, Old South Church, Boston
Denzel Washington
Actor
Cornel West, J.D.
Philosopher and Civil Rights Activist
Timothy Wise
Anti-Racist Educator and Author
Michelle Wu
Mayor of Boston
Andrew Yang
Co-Chair of the Forward Party
Kevin Young
Director, National Museum of African American History and Culture