Dr. Rosemary Gray's long and successful career in diversity and inclusion spans more than 30 years in the community, secondary education, and higher education. She has often worked with community leaders, churches, schools, and colleges and city managers, mayors, county administrators, attorneys, and state and federal agencies, including chairing and advising diversity and inclusion task forces and councils. She is a promoter of diversity and inclusion and recruitment and retention of underserved and underrepresented students as well as assisting with efforts to build a diverse faculty and staff and a diverse organization workforce, specifically with emphasis on Black/African American and Hispanic students, faculty, and staff as well as all student leaders. William S. Bundy, II's illustrious career as a writer and educator, community outreach, and leadership in education, church, and civic venues makes him an outstanding active participant in the diversity and inclusion process from elementary through college and in the community. From elementary school sales at 9 years old of $500 by going door-to-door with his granddaddy in tow let his parents know that he was a born leader; to leading his student body in his senior year through campus clean ups, a spirit retreat, homecoming, production of a year-long video in collaboration with East Tennessee State University's Communication Department; to collaborating with teachers, students, and student organizations in decorating holiday trees; to his high school principal winning a $25,000 National Milken Award because William kept the students busy before and after classes ended each day for an entire year; to his work in Atlanta with President Jimmy Carter's Atlanta high school project tutoring high school students; to learning the customs and culture of 7 countries for 3 months traveling abroad; and to being selected as the first Black Elementary Teacher of the Year for Calcasieu Parish, Lake Charles, Louisiana. Educator, teacher leader, train-the-trainer-he enjoys working with students and the community. He is an empowering speaker on diversity and inclusion-for audiences from elementary through college and the community. William Bundy has a passion for instilling the importance and benefits of diversity and inclusion within schools, the community, and the workplace.
