The speakers in each panel of the 10th Anniversary Conference and celebration for the Institute of Research in African American Studies reflect on the founding growth and development of one of the nation’s major programs in African American studies, celebrate the vision of Professor Manning Marable and the work and devotion of numerous students, staff, faculty and members of the community who’ve assisted in helping bring forth Dr. Marable’s vision of IRAAS. In this first panel, Laurent Alfred (Coordinator of the Africana Criminal Justice Project), Kristen Clarke (Trial Attorney in the civil rights division in the Civil Rights Division in the New York Department of Justice), Devin Furgus (Assistant Professor of History at Vandenberg University), Johanna Fernandez (Visiting Lecturer of African American studies and 20th Century US history at Trinity College), Amy Kendron (Chief Research Assistant for Dr. Manning Marable), and Monique Morris (Senior Research Associate for the National Council on Crime and Delinquency) discuss building an activist African American studies from campus to community.