The Fred D. Gray Institute Fellows

2025 Cohort

Appointment of the 2025 Cohort of Gray Institute Fellows

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Professor
Bryan Adamson

Case Western Reserve University,
School of Law

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Professor Ayesha Bell Hardaway

Case Western Reserve University,
School of Law

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Professor
Bryan Fair

University of Alabama Law

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Professor
Jeffrey R. Baker

Pepperdine University, Caruso
School of Law

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Reverend
Derrick Jackson

Together Sumner

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Reverend
Trent Oglive

Columbia Peace and Justice Initiative

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2024 Cohort

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Dr.
Catherine Meeks

Independent
Scholar

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Professor
Jonathan Entin

Case Western Reserve
University School of Law

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Dr.
Derryn Moten
(in memorium)

Alabama State
University

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Dr.
Phil Thompson

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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The Fred D. Gray Institute for Human and Civil Rights Inaugural Dinner and Symposium

March 2025 Speakers


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Bryan Stevenson

Equal Justice Initiative

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Fred Gray

Distinguished Civil Rights Lawyer

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A man in a suit and light blue shirt is looking at the camera with a thoughtful expression. The blurred interior background, with its dark and light areas, echoes the complex history of human rights advocates like Fred Gray.

Bryan Fair

University of Alabama Law

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Jeffrey R. Baker

Pepperdine University,
Caruso School of Law

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Ayesha Bell Hardaway

Case Western Reserve University, School of Law

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Shaun Casey

Special Representative for Religion and Global Affairs

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Patrick T. Smith

Duke University, Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, & the History of Medicine

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Roslyn Satchel

Kennesaw State University
Radow Institute for Social Equity and the New Georgia Project

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Robert Solomon

Case Western Reserve University

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Paul Gowder

Northwestern University,
Pritzker School of Law

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Marisa Giggie

University of Alabama, Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine and Chief Psychiatrist for the Tuscaloosa County Jail

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Michael A. Anastasi

Senior Vice President of Local News, Gannett Co. and USA Today and former editor of The Tennessean

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Angela D. Sims

Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, President

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Kenneth Williams

Texas Tech University School of Law, Fred Gray Endowed Chair for Civil Rights

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Jerome Dees

Faulkner University, Thomas Goode Jones School of Law

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Shay Farley

Southern Poverty
Law Center

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Bryan Adamson

Case Western Reserve University, School of Law

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Brian Stogner

Michigan School of Psychology, President

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Stephen Sodeke

Tuskegee University

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Columbia Peace and Justice Initiative

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