National Advisory Committee
Sojourn to the Past is grateful to the members of its distinguished National Advisory Committee for their support of the program’s mission and goals.
- Hon. Norman Mineta, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation and Member of Congress
- US Congresswoman Jackie Speier (CA)
- US Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (CA)
- US Congresswoman Karen Bass (CA)
- US Congressman John Lewis (GA), Author, veteran leader of the Civil Rights Movement
- US Congressman Jared Polis (CO)
- Senator Curren D. Price, J.D. (CA)
- Assemblymember Jerry Hill (CA)
- Mayor Kevin Johnson, Sacramento, CA, (NBA All – Star)
- Hon. Willie L. Brown, Jr., J.D., Former Speaker of the Assembly, CA and Mayor of San Francisco
- Hon. Julian Bond, Former Chair NAACP, Former Member of Congress
- Robert M. Franklin, Jr., Ph.D., President Morehouse College
- Richard Cohen, J.D., President & CEO Southern Poverty Law Center
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Ph.D. Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University
- Clayborne Carson, Ph.D., Professor of History and Director, Martin Luther King, Jr. Research & Education Institute at Stanford University
- Douglas Brinkley, Ph.D., Author, Historian, Professor of History, Rice University
- Rudolph P. Byrd, Ph.D., Professor of American Studies, Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Department of African American Studies, Director of the James Weldon Johnson Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Emory University
- Eva Paterson, J.D., President Equal Justice Society
- Maestro James Conlon, Internationally renowned conductor
- Morgan Freeman, Actor, Film Director, Co-founder of Plan!t Now
- Lateefah Simon, Executive Director Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law of the San Francisco Bay Area
- Hank Thomas, One of the original Freedom Riders; Entrepreneur
- Helen Zia, Chinese American author, Journalist, Activist
- Ronnie Lott, Pro Football Hall of Fame
- Maelia Macin, Vice President/General Manager Univision
- Joan Baez, Folk singer, Songwriter, Activist
- Dolores Huerta, Co-Founder United Farm Workers of America
- David Gockley, General Director, San Francisco Opera
Programs like Sojourn to the past help ensure America’s future as a land of liberty and justice for all…The Sojourn to the Past project highlights the themes of nonviolence, forgiveness, faith, and tolerance as it leads students –literally-down the roads that have defined the American civil rights movement.
