Posted: 1/5/12
The life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be honored during Mitchell Community College’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Observance Celebration on Thursday, Jan. 12 at 12:15 p.m. in Shearer Hall.
The program will feature guest speaker Jennifer Pharr Davis, a human resource professional with over forty years of experience in corporate, manufacturing, public and private sector organizations. She is president and CEO of Jennifer P. Davis & Associates, LLC, a minority-owned business, which she started in 1997 following her retirement from IBM in Charlotte. Davis is a certified diversity consultant, motivational speaker, and co-author of three books. She served on the Gaston County Board of Education for 12 years, and was the first African-American to chair the Board in 2002 serving in that position for two years. She is an American Leadership Forum Senior Fellow.
Davis was featured in the June 2009 publication of “Black Enterprise Magazine.” She hosted a weekly radio show, “Shammah Time” and was featured in “Brown in Black and White,” a 2006 documentary developed by award-winning Broadcaster Steve Crump regarding the 1954 Supreme Court decision on the impact of desegregation in schools in Gastonia, NC. Davis produced and developed a video, “One Time” with Tavis Smiley, TV show host, personality, author, and commentator.
The program will include the presentation of the annual Viola Kimbrough-Parker Diversity. The awards recognize a Mitchell employee, a Mitchell student and one community member who have made a difference in promoting diversity in Iredell County. Kimbrough-Parker was a former long-time college employee who contributed to the spread of diversity at Mitchell.
The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration is free and open to the public. Shearer Hall is located on the historic main campus in Statesville. For more information, call (704) 878-4321.
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