Academic Presentations and Press Room

Professional Presentations:

  • September 28, 2000 -- "Quantitative Non-Functional Requirements" 34th Government Electronics Industry Association Conference; Dallas, TX
  • February 16, 2001 -- "Contemporary Black Leadership" Conference:The Progression of the Black Community; Villonova University
  • February 24, 2001 -- "Rationality and the Afrikan-American Male" 7th Annual Blacks in the Diaspora Student Academic Conference; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • March 29, 2001 -- "Rationality and the Afrikan-American Male" 13th Annual National Black Graduate Student Conference; Texas Tech University
  • March 29, 2001 -- "Increasing Airspace Utilization via User Fees"13th Annual National Black Graduate Student Conference; Texas Tech University
  • March 30, 2001 -- "Tupac Shakur: Keeping it Real vs. Keeping it Right" 13th Annual National Black Graduate Student Conference; Texas Tech University
  • April 1, 20001 -- "Contemporary Issues in Black and Jewish Relations" Goucher College; Baltimore, MD
  • September 17, 2001 -- "Of Hip-Hop and Tupac Shakur", College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
  • September 27, 2001 -- "Tupac Shakur: Keeping it Real vs Keeping it Right", George Mason University Fairfax, VA (see flyer)
  • February 15, 2002 -- "Hip-Hop, Leadership, and Tupac" Goucher College, Towson, MD
  • February 15-17, 2002 -- "Rationality and the Afrikan-American Male" -- Macalester College, St.Paul,MN
  • March 16, 2002 -- "Beats, Rhyme and Culture: Hip-Hop 101"Pre-Collegiate Multicultural Leadership Conference, Williamsburg, VA
  • October 4, 2002 -- "Improving Decsion Making in CDM" AIAA conference, Los Angeles, CA
  • February 1, 2003 -- "Black Voices: Malcolm X vs Tupac Shakur" nvidius.com Technology and Entertainment Forum, Polytechnic University, NY, NY
  • February 11, 2003 -- "The Birth of Hip-Hop and Why It Is Important", Johnson State College, Johnson, Vermont
  • February 11, 2003 -- "The Birth of Hip-Hop and Why It Is Important", Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, Vermont
  • April 5, 2003 -- "Why Hip-Hop Matters" New Jersey Commission on Higher Education, Trenton, NJ
  • April 12, 2003 -- Panelist, Hip-Hop as a Movement Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin [INVITED]
  • April 19, 2003 -- Panelist, Rutgers,Rutgers University Student Community of Hip-Hop (RUSCH) Hip-Hop Conference, New Brunswick, NJ
  • April 28, 2003 -- "Women in Hip-Hop ", Moderator/Organizer for Panel Discussion, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
  • February 17, 2004 -- "Brown vs Board of Education and Its Effect on the Hip-Hop Generation" ; George Mason University; Fairfax, VA
  • February 22, 2004 -- "Hip-Hop and Activism", Jack and Jill of Fairfax Black History Challenge; Fairfax, VA
  • April 15, 2004 -- Guest Lecture, "Hip-Hop and the Blues" course at University of Maryland (taught by Dr. Clyde Woods)
  • April 21, 2004 -- "Tupac Shakur: Keeping it Real vs Keeping it Right", University of Maryland, College Park 3rd Annual Hip-Hop Conference
  • August 11, 2004 -- "Brindging the Gap: General Aviation meets Intermodal Transportation", American Public Transportation Association Conference on Intermodal Transportation; Vancouver, Canada

Communivty Oriented Talks

 

Articles:

Quotes:
Raleigh News Observer -- May 2004
St Petersburg Sun Times
-- January 2004

 
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