Schedule and Programming 

Schedule At A Glance

Educational Sessions

Thinking about attending AMC? There will be a variety of sessions to choose from. We are excited to share a sampling of sessions from our schedule HERE. 

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Keynote Speaker - Khalil Gibran Muhammad

 
Widely known as one of the most influential authorities on racial justice in America, KHALIL GIBRAN MUHAMMAD is redefining our understanding of diversity and equity. He’s the award-winning author of The Condemnation of Blackness, a “brilliant work that tells us how directly the past has formed us” (The New York Review of Books), and his work has been featured in the landmark New York Times “1619 Project” as well as Ava DuVernay’s Oscar-nominated Netflix documentary 13th. An incredibly dynamic, humorous, and grounding speaker, this Harvard Kennedy School Professor explains how companies invested in true DEI can break down the three barriers holding them back—efficiency, color-blindness, and investment—and free themselves for success.

Khalil Gibran Muhammad is the author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. This vital book has been called “a mandatory read” (David Levering Lewis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author) and “a poignant reminder of how these inequalities were shaped and how deeply they reach back into the nation’s history” (Journal of African American Literature).

He is also the co-host, alongside his long-time friend Ben Austen, of the podcast Some of My Best Friends Are. Today a Harvard professor (Khalil) and an award-winning journalist (Ben), the two interracial best friends show us how we can have conversations about race and racism with levity—that we can stumble and still move forward. Some of My Best Friends Are is a thoughtful and compassionate exploration of the issues that divide us, showing us that we can come together, however imperfectly, in the process of learning.

After graduating from college, Khalil worked as a public accountant at Deloitte & Touche LLP for three years, giving him a lens into how businesses work, why diversity is crucial to company success, and how to actually implement it. As nearly every organization in America pushes for diversity and inclusion, why are people of color still vastly under-represented in senior leadership? “It takes courage to redistribute power and it takes candidness to reflect on the fact that we do have a problem in our society,” Khalil says. With both a corporate and academic background, Khalil’s talks break down the three barriers that must be overcome for organizations to transform and harness the best ideas for success in the 21st century.

Khalil is the former Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of the New York Public Library and the world’s leading library and archive of global Black history. His writing and scholarship have been featured in a number of national print and broadcast media outlets, including The New York Times—notably as one of the contributors to its landmark “The 1619 Project,” which explores and exposes the true history of slavery in America—The New Yorker, The Washington Post, NPR, and MSNBC. He holds two honorary doctorates, and is on the board of The Museum of Modern Art, The Vera Institute of Justice, and The Nation magazine.

Source: https://thelavinagency.com/speakers/khalil-gibran-muhammad/ 

Supplemental Programming

2024 Bus Tours (Pre-Conference Opportunity)

2024 Middle Management Workshop (Pre-Conference Opportunity) 

2024 Toiletry Drive

Spring travel season is upon us! As you check-in and out of hotels, AMC’s Professional Resources Committee asks that you start collecting toiletries for our Toiletry Drive at this year’s conference! We will have a collection station during the entirety of the conference and we will donate to an area organization in need.