WEBINAR SPEAKERS
George Curry
Webinar #1 Featured Speaker
Thursday February 26, 2009
George E. Curry is a journalist, keynote speaker, moderator and media coach. From 2001 until 2007, he served as editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service in Washington, D.C. Curry’s work at the NNPA ranged from being inside the Supreme Court to hear oral arguments in the University of Michigan affirmative action cases to traveling to Doha, Qatar to report on America's war with Iraq, accompanying Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) President Charles Steele on a mission to Torino, Italy to institutionalize the concept of non-violence and traveling to Accra, Ghana to cover the 50th anniversary of that nation’s independence.
We look forward to you joining us as the Symposium Series continues throughout 2009.
-Carole Copeland Thomas
(508) 947-5755
Sonia Aranza
Filipino Born-Hawaiian Raised Cross Cultural Keynote Speaker
Thursday March 19, 2009 Conference
MY STORY
Learning to bridge differences at an early age
I was born in the Philippines, a country at the geographic center of the Far East and comprised of over 7,000 islands with nearly seventy different spoken dialects. My parents each came from different parts of the country and each spoke a different dialect. Each was orphaned at an early age and learned to manage a life filled with challenges. They introduced their different dialects and backgrounds in our home and I learned early on how to comfortably navigate through differences and become fluent in both dialects.
MARCH 19TH MULTICULTURAL CONFERENCE
Azekah Jennings
Thursday March 19th Luncheon Keynote Speaker
US Department of Justice
Community Relations Service
Azekah Jennings presently serves as a Senior Conciliation Specialist with the U.S. Department of Justice, Community Relations Service (CRS), in the Boston Regional Office which services the six (6) New England states to include, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, where, among other things, he is responsible for assisting state and local governments, private and public organizations, and community groups with preventing and resolving racial and ethnic tensions, incidents, and civil disorders, and in facilitating the restoration of racial stability and harmony.
October 29th Keynote Speaker
Pam Cross, Television Anchor
WCVB-TV Channel 5-Boston
OCTOBER 29TH MULTICULTURAL CONFERENCE
Pam Cross has been WCVB-TV's news anchor for the 6 and 11 p.m. weekend editions of NewsCenter 5 since September 1994. Cross had been, since May 1993, the anchor of the weekend edition of the Midday newscast. She is also a general assignment reporter for weekday and weeknight newscasts.
Before joining Channel 5, Cross worked as a weekend anchor/reporter for WFSB-TV, Hartford, Conn., for three years, and as a general assignment reporter for the same station for two years. In the late 1970s, Cross was a radio news reporter for WDRC in Hartford, Conn., and for WSTC in Stamford, Conn.
Cross is the recipient of numerous awards, including the YMCA Boston Black Achievers Award, honors from the Massachusetts Black Legislative Caucus, the Boston Association of Black Journalists, and was included in the 2001 class of the Boston's Academy of Women Achievers. In addition, Cross serves on the Board of Directors of the Boston YWCA.
Cross is a graduate of Emerson College in Boston. She lives in Canton, Mass., with her husband Ron Ancrum and their daughter, Erica.
