[iDiversity] Hip-Hop Leadership Conf, Feb. 27, 9-4:30, SVI

[Marisa Duarte]

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> *The Bush School invites you to join us for the *

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> *NW Hip-Hop Leadership Conference2 *

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> with keynote speaker

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> */Leila Steinberg*/*

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> */What Is Hip-Hop Doing to/for Our Communities and Youth?/*

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> **Saturday, February 27

> 9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m*

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> *FREE and open to the public*

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> *Seattle Vocational Institute *

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> *2120 S. Jackson Street *

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> *This conference is an annual opportunity to explore issues related to

> hip-hop such as youth leadership, global influence, community,

> privilege, diversity, social justice, race and racism, sexual

> orientation, and gender relations in a multicultural 21st-century America. *

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> *For more information, please contact: *

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> *Eddie Moore, Jr., PhD*

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> *Director of Diversity/The Bush School*

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> *(206) 326-7731*

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> *www.bush.edu <http://www.bush.edu>*

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> *www.uccs.edu/wpc <http://www.uccs.edu/wpc> *

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> **Leila Steinberg* is an artist and community organizer who began

> working with youth twenty years ago in the San Francisco Bay area. As

> the daughter of a criminal defense attorney, she grew up surrounded by

> the workings of the justice system and took a front row seat at the

> personal tragedies and socio-economic pressures that turn so many

> at-risk youths into hardened felons. Steinberg is committed to helping

> people who fall through the cracks of society. As hip-hop music became

> the expression of today's youth, Steinberg began training artists to

> develop voices powerful enough to reach a generation. While conducting

> poetry workshops in Northern California, she met Tupac Shakur and he

> became a regular participant in her class. They shared a vision of

> developing a space where each artist in attendance is encouraged,

> inspired and motivated to address social change in their work. Tupac

> referred to Leila as the "bow" and himself as the "arrow."Steinberg

> started the Microphone Sessions, a weekly workshop where young musicians

> and hip-hop artists write and perform new material, get feedback and

> launch discussions about pressing issues in their lives and in their

> communities. Steinberg's collaboration with Tupac deeply influenced the

> way she developed her workshops. Tupac Shakur is now an icon. His legacy

> as the most beloved and influential rapper of all time lives on in the

> hearts and minds of millions of young people. The poems published

> posthumously in The Rose That Grew From Concrete, were written by Tupac

> while he attended Steinberg's workshop. He entrusted her with original

> copies of his work to safe-keep. Along with Tupac's mother, Afeni, Leila

> was instrumental in getting them published. Steinberg was Co-Executive

> Producer of the spoken-word album of the same name, released on

> Interscope Records, with performances by Quincy Jones, Run D.M.C. and

> Danny Glover. She also produced and appears in the Tupac documentary,

> "Thug Angel," with Executive Producer Quincy Jones III.

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> www.hearteducation.org/leila.html

> <https://mail.bush.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=b4395be788c04d2982282d489c27bc18&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.hearteducation.org%2fleila.html>

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> Cynthia

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> Cynthia del Rosario

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> Director of Graduate Minority Recruitment & Retention

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> University of Washington

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> College of Education & The Information School

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> Box 353600 MLR 206C / MGH 416C Seattle WA 98195

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> 206-543-9779 1-888-241-9610 (toll-free)

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