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Arthuretta Holmes Martin

Discrimination Matters on Black Health, Black Wealth, Black Life

Distinguished Toastmaster Arthuretta Martin is a longtime advocate in the Whistleblower Community. After a 25-year career in the Federal Government, she launched a small business that focuses on stories and song to heal, educate and inspire. A certified Stress and Wellness Coach, she currently serves as Chair of the Health and Wellness Committee for the Coalition for Change – an Advocacy organization that informs the public on the systemic practices of discrimination against Black Americans within the Federal Government. Her business, Words and Melodies, provides audiences of all ages the experience of learning through the powerful tool of storytelling. She holds a BS in Public Administration and an MS in Federal Contract Management. As a member of the National Speaker’s Association, Toastmaster’s International, National Storytelling Network and the National Association of Black Storytelling she believes in using story to promote healing, understanding and respect.

Ken E Williams

Beyond Ferguson: How A Former Homicide Detective's Federal Lawsuit Could Reform Police in America

Ken Williams is a former Boston-area homicide detective and expert witness consultant in wrongful death cases. Mr. Williams is retained by civil rights attorneys to evaluate and render unbiased opinions in officer-involved shootings and other deaths. He has appeared as a subject matter expert in print and television media and has been featured as a public speaker at law schools and community forums. Mr. Williams also performs a public service for non-profits and families in need by providing an unbiased opinion review waving fees.

Louis Alan Clark

The Power of Individual Conscience: Strategically Multiplied

Louis Clark serves as both President and Corporate & Financial Accountability Director of the Government Accountability Project (GAP). Louis assumed the directorship of GAP in 1978, having first served as legal counsel for the organization. Louis received his J.D. from American University in 1977. Prior to becoming an attorney, Louis was a Methodist minister. He received a Masters of Divinity degree from the Pacific School of Region and his undergraduate degree from the University of Evansville. In 1980, Louis was the first recipient of the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award for Government. In 1992, he received the Gleitsman Award for his life‐long commitment to initiating, promoting and implementing positive forms of social change.

Marcel Vivian Reid

Whistleblowing: An Extenson of Hope

Marcel Reid has had a major impact over the last decade in grassroots community organizing, the whistleblowing community, and a national media foundation. Her efforts have resulted in major policy changes. Marcel has testified in the United States Senate on behalf of Major Legislation and has been included in several Congressional Oversight Committee Reports As National Director, Chair of DC ACORN and one of a three-member Interim Management Committee (IMC) to reorganize ACORN after the discovery of a embezzlement, Marcel faced the difficulties in reporting corruption. This was her first exposure in fighting entrenched corruption.

Michael McCray

Beautiful Souls: Courage And Integrity Are Worth Their Weight In Gold—Value The Whistleblower."

A native Arkansan, Michael McCray traveled to Washington, D.C. with the Clinton Administration and began his community development career working on the Presidential Empowerment Initiative—also known as the Federal Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities (EZ/EC) Program. Michael served with distinction as a community development specialist and a National Speaker on community economic development and technology issues for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Michael toured the country conducting technology training and speaking engagements at three White House Empowerment Zone Conferences and four Regional Enterprise Community Meetings. Michael blew the whistle on $40 Million worth of waste fraud and abuse at the USDA and became a nationally recognized whistleblower and public interest advocate. Michael hosts the Whistleblower Summit for Civil & Human Rights.

Stephen Kohn

The Untold Story of the Whistleblowers of 1777

Stephen M. Kohn is a founding director of the National Whistleblower Center and a partner at Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, LLP. He has been a trailblazer in establishing protections for whistleblowers since 1984. He won the first major Swiss bank whistleblower case, where his client’s disclosures resulted in $13 billion collected in fines and penalties, forcing thousands of Americans to close their illegal Swiss bank accounts. Ultimately, his client obtained the largest monetary reward ever paid by the government to an individual whistleblower ($104 million dollars). He has written ten books, including the first-ever manual on whistleblower law and the highly popular Whistleblower’s Handbook. Mr. Kohn was ranked by the National Law Journal as among America’s fifty top plaintiff’s lawyers.

Tom Michael Devine

Whistleblower Protection and the Truth: You Can't Have One Without the Other

Tom Devine is co-founder and legal director of the Government Accountability Project. Since 1979, Tom has assisted over 7,000 whistleblowers in defending themselves against retaliation and in making real differences on behalf of the public. In 2015 he won the first U.S. Supreme Court test of the Whistleblower Protection Act. Tom has been a leader in the campaigns to pass or defend 33 major national or international whistleblower laws. Tom has authored numerous books, including The Corporate Whistleblower’s Survival Guide: A Handbook for Committing the Truth, which won the 2011 Frankfurt Book Fair “International Business Book of the Year” award. Tom has been selected as one of Washington DC’s top employment lawyers for the last seven years by Washingtonian magazine.