William Collins is a student at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee where he is a Fisk Jubilee Singer. In this video, he performs the song “Deep River” as part of The Education Trust’s virtual conference, “Education Equity in the COVID-19 Era” on Oct. 14, 2020. William is a student leader with The Education Trust in Tennessee’s EmpowerEd (https://empoweredtn.org/), a storytelling series focused on capturing the experiences of underrepresented students during the COVID-19 crisis.