The Freedom Summer Symposium is an annual inter-generational dialogue that presents a call to action from community elders to present and future generations of social justice leaders presented by the Institute for Black Justice.
The Race & Pedagogy Institute sponsored the Institute for Black Justice as to host their annual Freedom Summer Symposium at the University of Puget Sound on June 14, 2023. The call for this symposium was focused on bringing together young and old people of African descent to begin "getting the bag" by actively building long-term financial health and wealth for themselves and their children.
Hannibal B. Johnson is a graduate of Harvard Law School. He did his undergraduate work at The University of Arkansas, where he completed a double major in economics and sociology. Johnson is an attorney, author, and independent consultant specializing in diversity & inclusion/cultural competence issues and nonprofit governance. Johnson has also served as an adjunct professor at The University of Tulsa College of Law (legal writing; legal ethics), Oklahoma State University (leadership and group dynamics; business law [MBA Program]), and the University of Oklahoma (ethics; cultural diversity; race & reason; The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot; nonprofit leadership & management).