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Panel 1:Voices of Integration: Black Students from the Class of
Moderator: Jacqueline Bridgeforth Williams
Panelists: Willis Potter, Troy Roots, Cynthia Druitt, Mary Ashlock
Jacqueline Bridgeforth Williams is the founder and director of The Village Initiative, a grassroots c3 organization focused on equity and racial justice in the school system. The Village Initiative engages in policy advocacy and outreach in the community to address the achievement gap and the disproportionate percentages of expulsion and suspension of minority youth which leads to the pipeline to prison. Her work for equity and racial justice in the Williamsburg-James City County Public Schools was recognized in with a commendation from the Virginia State Assembly and was recently featured inEssence magazine, alongside numerous local recognitions.
The second of eight children, Troy D. Roots spent his formative years in Williamsburg and was a member of the first full
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