Friday, February 04, 2005

Feb. 3, 2005

By Hannah R. Brown, PR Intern

Wilmington, N.C.- Approximately 250 students from about 15 different colleges and universities will be on the campus of University of North Carolina Wilmington Feb. 18-20 for the 12th annual Southeastern African-American Student Leadership Conference at the Warwick Center Ballroom, Cameron Hall, and Dobo Hall.

Begun at UNCW 12 years ago, this student-led conference is held here every two years and at other participating schools the years in between. It features a number of workshops that will focus on leadership and other topics affecting African-American and other minority student leaders. Highlight of the Friday, Feb.18 session will be a presentation at 8 p.m. in the Warwick Center Ballroom of Don’t Forget, a gospel play performed by D&S Productions of North Carolina. Saturday’s events start at 7:30 a.m. with late registration in Dobo Hall and will feature four leadership sessions and end with keynote speaker Omar Tyree at 6 p.m. in the Warwick Center Ballroom.

Journalist, lecturer, poet, screenwriter and publisher, Tyree is the author of Flyy Girl, A Do Right Man, Capital City, Battle Zone, Single Mom, Sweet St. Louis and For The Love Of Money. A resident of Charlotte, N.C., he seeks to create timeless African-American reading material and feature films while continuing community entrepreneurship.

This conference is UNCW student-led and facilitated by the Center for Leadership Education and Service and the Office of Campus Diversity. This event is open only to registered participants, but media are invited to cover any portion of it.