The University of Michigan Women of Color Task Force will host its 35th annual Career Conference March 3, continuing its long-standing tradition of supporting the professional and personal development of U-M community members and the general public.
Roland Martin
This year’s conference keynote address will be delivered by anti-racism activist and educator Jane Elliott and “NewsOne Now” host and managing editor Roland S. Martin. The two will discuss race, gender and identity in the workplace, according to a news release.
The opening keynote starts at 8:30 a.m. at Hill Auditorium. Robin Means Coleman, associate dean for academic programs and initiatives, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies; professor of communication studies, and Afroamerican and African studies, LSA, will moderate the keynote discussion.
Although the keynote event is open to the public, those who are not going to the conference must register to attend the discussion. The registration and cancellation deadline for the conference is Feb. 24.
The conference will offer 20 workshop sessions for guests’ professional and personal development. As a new addition this year, the keynote speakers also will conduct workshops and be available for book signings.
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The conference is sponsored by LSA, University Human Resources, Michigan Medicine Human Resources, the Office of the Provost, the Center for the Education of Women and corporate sponsor TIAA.
Martin is a journalist and host of TV One’s “NewsOne Now,” a morning news program that concentrates on news and analysis “from an explicitly African-American perspective.” He also is the creator and host of “The Roland Martin Show” and a senior analyst for the “Tom Joyner Morning Show.”
Among his many awards, Roland received the National Association of Black Journalists’ Journalist of the Year Award in 2013 and was part of the team that earned CNN a Peabody Award for its 2008 election coverage.
Elliott is known for her “Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes” anti-racist social exercise, which she started as a teacher in her third-grade classroom in an all-white Iowa town after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
She has received the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education, and has appeared on several television shows including “60 Minutes” and “Oprah.”
