About the Speakers

Linsey Davis is currently an anchor for ABC News Live Prime, which is ABC News Live’s first-ever streaming evening newscast, and weekend “World News Tonight” on Sundays. She is a correspondent filing reports for “World News Tonight,” “Good Morning America,” “20/20” and “Nightline.”

Throughout the 2020 presidential election cycle, Davis was at the forefront of ABC News’ coverage, beginning with all eight nights of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions to co-anchoring major political events such as two presidential debates, the vice presidential debate, presidential election coverage and Inauguration Day. She showcased her tough, but fair moderating skills at ABC News’ Democratic presidential debates in September, 2019 and February, 2020, holding candidates accountable on racial inequality and other key issues.

Read more about Linsey here.

Jason Samuels is an associate professor of journalism at NYU and a multiple Emmy Award-winning broadcast news and documentary producer.

He most recently produced the independent feature-length documentary “A Kid From Coney Island” which premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and is now streaming on Netflix.

Samuels also serves as a senior consultant at ViacomCBS, where he manages the development and production of primetime news specials and original award-winning documentaries for Black Entertainment Television, including Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement and Through the Fire: The Legacy of Barack Obama.

Read more about Jason here.