SPEAKERS
2024 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
OPENING KEYNOTE
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Professor, Princeton University – Department of African American Studies
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, published in 2019 by the University of North Carolina Press, a semi-finalist for a National Book Award for nonfiction and a 2020 finalist for the Pulitzer in History. Taylor’s book From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, won the Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book in 2016. She is also editor of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, which won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ nonfiction in 2018. In 2021, Taylor was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Fellowship.
LUNCH KEYNOTE AND MODERATOR
Shaun Donovan
CEO and President, Enterprise Community Partners
Shaun Donovan is the CEO and President of Enterprise Community Partners. One of the nation’s foremost leaders in housing and community development, Donovan’s 30-year career in public service has focused on building opportunity and fighting for people and communities too often left behind. He served in President Barack Obama’s cabinet for his full eight years in office, as secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from 2009 to 2014 and as director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget from 2014 to 2017.
CLOSING KEYNOTE
Brian Goldstone
Author
Brian Goldstone is a journalist and author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America. Told through the lives of five families in Atlanta, the book traces the rise of America’s “working homeless,” exposing the forces—gentrification, racialized displacement, precarious low-wage labor—fueling a deepening crisis of housing insecurity. It was published by Crown in March 2025. His longform reporting and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, The New Republic, The California Sunday Magazine, Guernica, and Jacobin, among other publications.
