A producer, writer and diplomat, Ambassador Shabazz has spent more than 40 years offering keynote addresses, while developing curriculums and programs for educational institutions, executive forums, diplomatic networks, penal systems, conferences and human service organizations around the world, with the purpose of motivating and encouraging the young and mature alike to value and appreciate diverse cultural engagement, traditional rites of passage, and perspectives. She is recognized as a masterful creator and an astute businesswoman. She is the eldest of six daughters born to Dr. Betty Shabazz and Malcolm X Shabazz. In 2015, Dr. Brandy N. Kelly Pryor was jointly appointed as the Director of the Center for Health Equity, a division within the Louisville Metro/Jefferson County’s Department of Public Health and Wellness, and as an Assistant Professor with the University of Louisville’s School of Public Health and Infor- mation Sciences in the Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences. With expertise in various frameworks of youth development, community based participatory research and advancing equity, Dr. Kelly Pryor’s interdisciplinary research focuses on the perception and performance of hope in marginalized communities; development of domestic and international social policy regarding youth; and the relationship between gender and race/ethnicity in the development of health narratives. Recently, she became the Senior Director of Programs for the Humana Foundation. AMBASSADOR SHABAZZ January 20, 2017 DR. BRANDY N. KELLY PRYOR February 24, 2017