Virginia Tech® home

Keynote Speakers

2024 Signature Speakers

Dynamic Keynote Speakers

Cherrie Moraga 2024 FWCA Speaker
Cherrie Moraga - Writer, Scholar Feminist, Professor | University of California, Santa Barbara
Gabrielle A Tayac 2024 FWCA Speaker
Gabrielle A Tayac - Associate professor of public history in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University.
Menah Pratt 2024 FWCA Speaker v2
Menah Pratt - Vice President for Strategic Affairs and Diversity and Professor of Education at Virginia Tech.

Signature Leadership Panel

Mariam Lam 2024 FWCA Speaker
Mariam Lam - Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer | University of California, Riverside
Veronica Terriquez 2024 FWCA Speaker
Veronica Terriquez - Director of Chicano Studies Research Center | University of California, LA

Javaune Adams-Gaston - President | Norfolk State University

Javaune Adams Gaston - President | Norfolk State University
Javaune Adams-Gaston - President | Norfolk State University

Featured Authors Panel

Victoria Reyes 2024 FWCA Speaker
Victoria Reyes - Author of Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope | University of California, Riverside
Stephanie G Adams 2024 FWCA Speaker
Stephanie G. Adams - Editor of Dear Department Chair: Letters from Black Women Leaders to the Next Generation | University of Texas, Dallas