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Author Jabari Asim to Speak at Leadership Institute
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
by: Dan Nugent

Author Jabari Asim will serve as the Keynote Speaker for this year's Seton Hall Leadership Institute on Saturday, April 4, 2009. Asim is the editor-in-chief of Crisis magazine, a preeminent journal of politics, ideas and culture published by the NAACP and founded by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1910. He spent 11 years at the Washington Post, where he served as deputy editor of the book review section. For three years he also wrote a syndicated column on political and social issues for the Post.

He is a frequent public speaker and commentator who has appeared on The Today Show, The Colbert Report, Hannity & Colmes, the Tavis Smiley Show, the Diane Rehm show and countless other programs.

An accomplished poet, playwright and fiction writer, Asim has published work in a number of anthologies and literary magazines. He was the only writer to have both poetry and fiction included in In The Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers; his short story "Two Fools" appeared in Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America (Ballantine); and his poems, along with "Peace, Dog," a one-act play, were published in Soulfires: Young Black Men on Love and Violence.
 
Asim will discuss his latest book, What Obama Means...For our Culture, Our Politics, And Our Future, as well as issues in leadership facing today's college students and the Obama administration's call to leadership and service.
 
The annual Seton Hall Leadership Institute is a day-long conference on the South Orange Campus. Registration is open to all students and topics focus on leadership skills and professional development.
 
Students, staff and faculty members interested in presenting on the topics of leadership, professionalism and career development are welcome to submit proposals.
 
For more information on this year's conference please e-mail SHLIConference@shu.edu.

For more information please contact:
Sarah Clifford
(973) 275-2937
shliconference@shu.edu