Multicultural leadership will be focus of free workshop series

BELLEVUE, WASH. – “Multicultural Leadership for the Future,” a series of free, public, student workshops focusing on the qualities and skills needed for successful cross-cultural civic engagement, will be presented at Bellevue Community College on Wed., Feb. 28 and Thurs., March 1.

Concepts to be covered include cross-cultural communication, public speaking, use of the media, confidence-building, leadership opportunities for women and strategies for building multiracial coalitions.

The workshops also will present strategies and techniques to achieve academic success and improve writing skills.

A keynote speech by Malcolm Cash, on the role of leadership in creating a learning environment that encourages student success, will launch the program.

Cash, a BCC scholar-in-residence last year, is a noted author, lecturer and poet with expertise in English and creative writing as well as African and African-American literature and multicultural leadership.

Running from 9:30 a.m. to 2:20 p.m. each day, the program will be held in room 201 of the N Building at the south end of BCC’s main campus (3000 Landerholm Circle S.E., Bellevue, at the intersection of S.E. 28th St. and 148th Ave. S.E.).

The program is co-sponsored by BCC’s student Multicultural Leadership Club, Future 500 student business club and Black Student Union.

For further information please contact Ilays Aden [ilaysa711@yahoo.com] or David Oar [doar@bcc.ctc.edu; (425) 564-3134]

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