FORA.tv Speaker - Michael Lomax

Michael Lomax is the President and CEO of the United Negro College Fund-the nation's largest and most effective minority education organization.

Immediately before joining UNCF, he served seven years as President of Dillard University in New Orleans. He taught literature at Morehouse and Spelman Colleges and the University of Georgia. He served as the first head of the Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs and was elected to the Fulton County Board of Commissioners, serving as its first African-American chair.