Male high school students of color will devote a Saturday to attend Highline College’s Black and Brown Male Summit.
The college’s longest-running event of its kind in the region, runs from 8:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the main campus in Building 8 (Student Union).
Saturday’s summit is not a college recruitment tool, organizers said. According to Rashad Norris, who co-founded the summit in 2011, the daylong event builds self-identity and confidence and helps attendees learn that they can still be successful in life despite the obstacles they face as young men of color.
The program includes:
• John Dunn will give the keynote address. When he was 14, Dunn was charged with murder. He spent 27 years in prison fighting the charges until being exonerated in May 2018. While in prison, he learned to read and now helps America’s 2 million prisoners through books and reading with his organization, A Voice 4 the Unheard.
• South King County community leaders and educators of color will make presentations and lead workshops.
• Close to 500 high school students of color from King and Pierce counties will choose from more than a dozen workshops.
• Students’ parents and chaperones will participate in separate workshops.
See the full agenda at bandbsummit.highline.edu.
