Featured Speaker - Shanta Driver

Shanta Driver is a graduate of Harvard, an attorney and the National Coordinator for United for Equality and Affirmative Active (UEAA), a Detroit-based organization dedicated to building a new civil rights movement like the one that secured affirmative action in the first place. A 25-year veteran of civil rights struggles, Ms. Driver is an articulate and passionate advocate for a fresh vision of an integrated society, she travels the country rallying grass-roots support in the fight for social equality. UEAA organized and directed the student intervention in "Grutter v. Bollinger," the Supreme Court-bound landmark affirmative action case involving the admissions practices of the University of Michigan Law School. Ms. Driver also serves as National Director of the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action and Integration, and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary. BAMN is a national civil rights organization fighting in defense of affirmative action and integration.