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Dr. Gregory J. Vincent currently serves as professor, executive director of the Education and Civil Rights Initiative and program chair of the Ph.D. Senior Diversity Officer specialization at the University of Kentucky. He is the Principal Investigator of “Equity, Access, and Education,” a four-year $500,000 grant.

Vincent is the CEO of Vincent Strategies, a global diversity, equity and inclusion consulting firm and founding partner of Wilson Vincent Law, a firm focusing on civil rights, education and child advocacy. During 2018-2020, he served as the 48th Grand Sire Archon (CEO and Chairman) of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity (the Boulé), founded in 1904 as the first African American Greek-Letter fraternity. Previously, Dr. Vincent served as the 27th President of the Hobart College and the 16th President of William Smith College in Geneva, New York. He is a Life Member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. As one of the longest serving chief diversity officers in higher education, Vincent has developed and led over 200 workshops focused on justice, diversity, equity and inclusion.

From 2005-2017, Vincent was the University of Texas at Austin Vice President for Diversity and Community Engagement, W.K. Kellogg Professor of Community College Leadership and Professor of Law. Vincent led the most comprehensive unit of its kind in higher education with a budget of over $50 Million and 400 employees. It included the Office for Inclusion and Equity, which investigated any civil rights grievances or complaints brought against faculty and staff and the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities. These units provided training for inclusion, diversity, equity and access topics, including recruitment and retention of diverse faculty and staff, students and inclusive classrooms. He also served as university spokesperson and played a major role in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to uphold the use of affirmative action in higher education. Under Vincent’s leadership, the University of Texas at Austin developed a comprehensive diversity action plan and earned the prestigious Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement. In addition, Insight into Diversity Magazine named the University of Texas-Austin a 2016 Diversity Champion and Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Awardee for five consecutive years, 2012-2016.

Earlier in his academic career, Vincent was Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity and law professor at the University of Oregon from 2003 to 2005. From 1999 to 2003, he served as Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Campus Diversity and law professor at Louisiana State University. From 1995 to 1999, he was Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and lecturer of law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Prior to entering academia, Vincent was the assistant attorney general in the Office of the Ohio Attorney General where he successfully argued several major civil rights cases before the Supreme Court of Ohio. He was promoted to director for regional and legal affairs at the Ohio Civil Rights Commission in Cleveland and as vice president and lead counsel for Bank One.

Born in New York, New York, Vincent attended public schools and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1979. He received his bachelor’s degree in history and economics from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in 1983. He earned his law degree from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law in 1987 and his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004.

Vincent has served on the Moritz College of Law National Advisory Council since 2012. He has chaired numerous boards including the Austin Area League, Communities in Schools of Central Texas and Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas. He is a member of St. James’ Episcopal Church in Austin and served as Senior Warden for two terms.

For his service and community engagement, Dr. Vincent has received numerous awards and recognition. In 2016, He was named the Educator of the year by the University of Pennsylvania and in 2012 he received the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Distinguished Service Award. Mayor Steven Adler and the City Council designated June 13, 2017, as Dr. Gregory J. Vincent Day in the City of Austin.

Kim Wilson Vincent is a founding partner of the Wilson Vincent Law Firm where she devotes a significant part of her practice to child protective services cases. She brings her two decades of experience as a successful businesswoman and law firm owner to direct the business operations, case management and client outreach for Vincent Strategies. She also serves as a Vincent Strategies facilitator for gender and equity conversations.

As a court-appointed Family Attorney, Vincent represents either a child or a parent in child protective services cases. Her practice has focused almost exclusively on this work since 2013.

In 2017 Texas Governor Greg Abbott commissioned Kim Wilson Vincent as a Yellow Rose of Texas for her longstanding commitment to community service and, in her capacity as a lawyer, the pursuit of justice for children, women and indigent clients, child advocacy, leadership in the arts and distinguished community service. The Yellow Rose of Texas is a coveted award given only through the Office of the Governor of Texas, recognizing Texas women for their significant contributions to their communities and to Texas. Vincent was also named 2016 Profiles of Prominence Honoree by the Austin Metroplex Chapter of the National Women of Achievement, Inc.

Through her legal practice and volunteer activities, Vincent has worked with a range of communities throughout Travis County. She is an active member of The Links Inc. and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. She donated generously of her time and resources as the former chancellor of the St. James’ Episcopal School and current vice president for development for Mexic-Arte Museum.

A board member at the Capital Area AIDS Legal Project, Vincent has volunteered at legal clinics serving AIDS Services of Austin clients and provided assistance with everything from housing discrimination complaints to estate planning. She also has been significantly involved in court- appointed work, child protective services, mentoring young women and art education in the local public schools.

Vincent is currently involved in numerous national, state, and county cohorts focused on domestic violence and child welfare work. These include the Battered Women’s Justice Project, the Women of Color Leadership Cohort Project, and Texas Working at the Intersections for Safe Families. The cohorts meet regularly to discuss the roles of stakeholders in the domestic violence and child welfare spaces and how those areas intersect. The cohorts try to find ways to improve outcomes of the families impacted by both domestic violence and child welfare by reimagining how the system could be better, and by having honest conversations about how families of color are disproportionately impacted by these systems.

She is also a fellow on the Marketplace of Ideas Advisory Committee. This is a virtual series which aims to curate and produce a set of actionable ideas that can be agenda setting for 2021 in the child welfare/domestic violence space. Vincent serves as CLE co-chair and is a board member for the Court Appointed Family Attorney Board.

Vincent was born in New Orleans and raised in Houma, Louisiana. She earned her bachelor’s and law degrees from Louisiana State University.

Camille Vincent is the Director of Instruction for Vincent Strategies. Vincent has designed numerous interactive learning modules, including one that is currently under review by the National Parks Service regarding the underground railroad. Her work with Vincent Strategies includes management and technical advisory services, developing training and learning modules and preparation of staff and volunteers to facilitate these experiences.

Camille Vincent graduated with a master’s degree in Learning, Design and Technology from Georgetown University and will begin the doctoral program in History at Howard University in the fall of 2021. She earned her bachelor’s degree in history from Spelman College in 2014.

While at Georgetown, Vincent served on the Provost’s Diversity Advisory Committee and was the Maryland Province Archival Fellow. She is currently a special project intern with the Association of African American Museums. In this capacity, Vincent manages grants from the National Trust of Historic Preservation and the Institute of Museum and Library Science. She is the liaison between the AAAM office and Membership and Communications committees and provides technical support for all AAAM meetings and events.

Previously, Vincent was a national park ranger at the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site where she developed an Education Day for eighth graders based on the Alabama Standards of Learning and partnered with the Montgomery, Alabama, Parks and Recreation Department to develop an after-school program focused on air, wind and weather.

Raymond Vincent is a research analyst for Vincent Strategies and the Wilson Vincent Law Firm. He graduated cum laude from Morehouse College with a major in Philosophy and a minor in Leadership Studies. He earned highest departmental honors and was inducted into the Phi Sigma Tau International Honor Society in Philosophy as well. He will begin working on a master’s degree at the University of Denver in the fall of 2021.

Vincent has completed an internship with Gideon’s Promise, a nonprofit public defenders’ association in Atlanta and is currently interning with the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office. While at Gideon’s Promise, Vincent worked on projects to increase awareness of the role of the public defenders in the justice system. At the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office, Vincent compiles materials to assist attorneys in the Gaming Division.