The 6th Annual Millennium Leadership Conference
Key Note Speaker: Byron Hurt
Byron
Hurt is the New York-based producer of the award-winning documentary and
underground classic I Am A Man: Black
Masculinity in America
and
Moving Memories: The Black Senior Video Yearbook.
Hurt is a former Northeastern University football star and long-time gender
violence prevention educator. For more than five years, he was the associate
director and founding member of the Mentors in Violence Prevention program, the
leading college-based rape and domestic violence prevention initiative for
professional athletics. He is also the former associate director of the first
gender violence prevention program in the United States Marine Corps.
In 1999, Hurt was the recipient of the Echoing Green Public Service Fellowship,
an award given to ambitious young activists devoted to creating social change in
their communities. Over the past decade, he has lectured at more than 100
college campuses and trained thousands of young men and women on issues related
to gender, race, sex, violence, music and visual media.
More than a
filmmaker, Byron Hurt is an anti-sexist activist who provides cutting-edge male
leadership, expert analysis, keynote addresses, and workshop facilitation in the
field of sexual and gender violence and education.
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