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Release date: Jan. 13, 2004 Belafonte Keynotes Emory's Cole Leadership Forum
WHAT: Third annual Kenneth Cole Leadership Forum on "Many Faces in One Place: Building the Diverse Community," the capstone event for Emory’s Kenneth Cole Fellowship in Community Building and Social Change. WHEN & WHERE: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 28: Opening keynote address by Harry Belafonte, Glenn Memorial Auditorium, 1652 N. Decatur Rd., Emory COST: All events are free and open to the public, but participants of the forum must pre-register online at the Kenneth Cole Leadership Forum Web site at http://oucp.emory.edu/Info/kennethcolefellows.html, or by calling 404-712-9893. Participants will be issued tickets. Seating for the Belafonte event is free and open to the public on a first come, first serve basis. PARKING: Fishburne Deck, 1671 N. Decatur Rd., Emory (access from Fishburne Drive, off Clifton Road) for the opening address, and at the Emory Conference Center and Hotel during the conference Leaders in business, philanthropy and community building will gather at Emory University Jan. 28-29 to examine the challenges of building and maintaining strong communities in an age of increasing ethnic, religious, economic and cultural diversity during the third annual Kenneth Cole Leadership Forum on “Many Faces in One Place: Building the Diverse Community." The forum is the capstone event for the Kenneth Cole Fellowship in Community Building and Social Change, a comprehensive, 12-month program designed to prepare Emory undergraduates to become the next generation of community builders. Legendary entertainer and activist Harry Belafonte will deliver the forum’s opening address at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 28 in Glenn Memorial Auditorium. In addition to his career as an actor, producer and composer, Belafonte also has been a dedicated activist in the struggle against hunger and racial inequality. He helped organize the 1985 "We are the World" recording to raise money for the starving in Africa, was named a UNICEF goodwill ambassador in 1987 and has been active in working to reduce teen gang activity across the country. Three panels and two challenge speakers the following day will highlight such issues as: innovative ways companies are responding to an increasingly diverse workforce; national and local community building and problem solving; and the role of elected leaders and government in creating a welcoming community for all. The 2003 class of Kenneth Cole fellows also will make brief presentations on their community building work in Atlanta this past summer. Speakers during the day-long forum include John McKnight, nationally renowned professor of public policy at Northwestern University, and Eddie Glaude Jr., a Morehouse College alumnus and associate professor of religion at Princeton University. McKnight is director of community studies at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University and has conducted research on social service delivery systems, health policy, community organizations, neighborhood policy and institutional racism for nearly three decades. He is coauthor of "Building Communities From the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets," considered the modern blueprint for community building. His talk at 10:30 a.m. will examine the current state of community building both nationally and in Atlanta. Glaude is the author of "Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation in Early 19th-Century Black America" and editor of "Is it Nation Time? Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black Nationalism." His talk at 1:10 p.m. will center on "New Tools for the Crises of Today" and will examine and challenge the wisdom of looking to strategies from the civil rights movement to respond to the crises in the African-American community today. Emory launched the fellowship program, the first of its kind in the United States, in 2001 with a lead gift from the Kenneth Cole Foundation. Cole, chairman, CEO and creative director of Kenneth Cole Productions Inc. and a trustee of the Kenneth Cole Foundation, has long used social-consciousness messages in marketing his products. He is a 1976 graduate of Emory and a university trustee. The Kenneth Cole Leadership Forum is an initiative of Emory’s Office of University-Community Partnerships. Visit the Kenneth Cole Leadership Forum Web site for full program details at http://oucp.emory.edu/Info/kennethcolefellow.html. ### Emory University is known for its demanding academics, outstanding undergraduate college of arts and sciences, highly ranked professional schools and state-of-the-art research facilities. For more than a decade Emory has been named one of the country's top 25 national universities by U.S. News & World Report. In addition to its nine schools, the university encompasses The Carter Center, Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Emory Healthcare, a comprehensive metropolitan health care system.
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