UpDate - Vol. 15, No. 29, Page 4
April 25, 1996
Black Leadership Conference in Clayton Hall

     Students from throughout the East Coast have been invited to the
University Friday through Sunday, April 26-28, for the second annual
Black Student Leadership Conference, to be held in Clayton Hall.
     This year's theme, "The Struggle Within: Challenges of Being a
Leader," will be discussed in three special sessions: "Resolving
Conflicts" and "Back to Basics" and "Networking and Collaboration."
Renowned educator Jawanza Kunjufu and Pamela Peters, founder and
president of the Center for Stress, Pain and Wellness Management Inc.
(The Center) in Wilmington, will be keynote speakers.
     Kunjufu, who will speak from 9-10 a.m. on Saturday, April 27, is
president of African American Images, a Chicago-based communications
company, and executive director of the African American Images Talent
Center, designed to identify and develop children's talents.
     Kunjufu has written several books, including Developing Positive
Self-Images and Discipline in Black Children, Motivating and Preparing
Black Youth To Work, Lessons from History: A Celebration in Blackness,
To Be Popular or Smart: The Black Peer Group, Critical Issues in
Educating African-American Youth and the three-volume Countering the
Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys.
     He also is a coauthor of an Afrocentric multicultural curriculum
called SETCLAE and the executive producer of a new, full-length movie
about peer pressure starring Marla Gibbs, entitled Up Against the
Wall. Kunjufu and his work have been the subject of numerous magazine
articles, and he has been a guest on many major talk shows. He is a
popular lecturer and workshop leader.
     Peters, who will speak from noon to 1 p.m. on Sunday, April 28,
spent 20 years working in higher education and for major corporations.
She has extensive experience as an administrator in organizational
management and development.
     She has served on several national committees and she has worked
as a consultant to several colleges developing a number of diversity
programs.
     In the corporate sector, she worked in transportation and
personnel and developed programs and seminars on topics as diverse as
self-esteem and dealing with hazardous materials.
     She founded The Center in 1986 and has incorporated various
alternative health therapies and counseling techniques into its
program. She also is a full-time instructor for the Myofascial Release
Center.
     She has a state contract for counseling services and a private
contract for the Women's Correctional Institute.
     Currently, Peters is an adjunct professor at Delaware County
Community College, is certified in HIV-AIDS education and serves on
the Consortium for the State of Delaware.
     Cost for the weekend conference is $60 for UD students and staff
and $75 for all others. Registrations must be completed in advance, by
calling 831-2991.
                                                          -Beth Thomas