| About the Panelists
Lilah Blackstone, JD, LLM, a UMGC adjunct faculty member, is the Deputy General Counsel for the District of Columbia's Department of Insurance, Securities, and Banking. She has extensive experience in all aspects of state securities law and compliance and is an advocate for victims of financial fraud. She earned her JD from Howard University Law School and her LLM in security and financial regulation from Georgetown University Law School.
Damon W. Freeman, PhD, JD, is the Director and Collegiate Professor of History and African American Studies at UMGC. He has taught at Indiana University, Rutgers University, the University of Alabama, and the University of Pennsylvania. He earned history and law degrees from Morgan State University, Indiana University, and the University of Maryland School of Law. His research is focused on the civil rights movement and African American intellectual history.
Treston Sanders, the Arts Program curator at UMGC, was studying nursing at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, but an interest in art led him to volunteer at the International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro. By his senior year he switched his major, earning a Bachelor of Arts in visual arts design. After graduation, he worked as an assistant art teacher and gallery coordinator before moving to the Washington, D.C., area.
Sharon Jackson Wilder, JD, joined UMGC in February as vice president and chief diversity and equity officer. Before joining UMGC, she served as the inaugural chief equity and inclusion officer at Montgomery College. Wilder holds a BA in political science and African American studies from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a JD from the Georgetown University Law Center, as well as Certified Public Manager credentials from George Washington University and the Maryland Equity and Inclusion Leadership Program at the University of Baltimore. |
