The Measure of Leadership: Democracy, Moral Courage, and the Next Generation | ASU+GSV Summit 2026

Jonathan Eig (Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer, author of King: A Life), Dr. Michael Lomax (President and CEO of UNCF), Dr. Michael Sorrell (President, Paul Quinn College), and Dr. John Silvanus Wilson (Executive Director, The McGraw Center for Educational Leadership, University of Pennsylvania) discuss The Measure of Leadership: Democracy, Moral Courage, and the Next Generation at the ASU+GSV Summit 2026 to examine the values, courage, and responsibility required to lead the next generation.

At a moment when questions of leadership, democracy, and civic trust are deeply present, this conversation draws on the enduring lessons of Dr. King’s life and the legacy of HBCUs and higher education to explore how institutions shape citizens, leaders, and communities.

Pulitzer Prize–winning author of King: A Life, Jonathan Eig will join Dr. Michael Lomax, President & CEO of UNCF; Dr. Michael Sorrell, President of Paul Quinn College; and Dr. John Silvanus Wilson, Jr., Executive Director of the McGraw Center for Educational Leadership at Penn GSE, for a timely discussion on StageX moderated by Maurice DuBois, former co-anchor of the CBS Evening News—examining the values, courage, and responsibility required to lead the next generation.

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