BBSA Newsletter | 9-20-2019

Hi BBSA Fam,

First of all, a huge welcome to our new first years! We hope you are all getting into groove with classes and life at Haas - we know it can be a lot the first few weeks. We try to send out these newsletters every couple weeks to share any upcoming events and opportunities at Haas/in the broader Berkeley & Bay Area community that might be of interest. To kick things off, we are hosting a BBSA Happy Hour on Tuesday (10/1) from 5-7 pm at Freehouse - so please join us... first drink (at least) is always on us! :-)

Events:

• Michelle M. Wright, a professor at Emory University in Atlanta, offers a lecture entitled “Using Time to Represent Blackness” this Saturday (Sept 21) at 4 pm at BAMPFA (UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive). She argues that the complexity of black identities is poorly served by traditional representations of time—including those used by many academics in black studies. Drawing on the history of theoretical physics and concepts of race, gender, and sexuality in African diasporic writing, Wright shows how a “physics of blackness” is necessary for writing accurately and inclusively about blackness. See LINK.
• The 41^st Annual National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA) Conference & Exposition convenes members, corporate and university partners, and some of the world’s most sought after thought leaders at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas for a week (Sept 24-28) of exploration in the areas of education, leadership, career opportunities, and networking connections that enable professional development. More than 10,000 professionals will travel to Houston to gain access to opportunities that only this national conference can offer. Please see their website for more details and to register.
• Dean's Speaker Series: Tony Prophet, Chief Equality Officer of Salesforce will be in conversation with Kellie McElhaney, founding director of The Center for Equity, Gender and Leadership on Tuesday, Oct 1 from 12:30-1:30 pm in Spieker Forum.
• CMG URM NETWORKING NIGHT on Wednesday, Oct 2 from 6-8 pm in Spieker Forum. Please see attached flyer for more details and register via this LINK.
• The Diversity Symposium welcomes candidates with diverse backgrounds to Haas from October 4-5.
  • Mixer: Oct 4 from 4-6pm (location in San Francisco)
  • Symposium: Oct 5 from 9am-6pm at Haas
  • Signup to volunteer HERE.

• Alex Tsado, the Founding Director of Alliance4ai, is interested in connecting with Haasies about opportunities to intern with them during the fall semester for credit or otherwise.The attached document shares more about Alliance4ai and please reach out to Alex for more information if you are interested.
• Adobe is hosting a webinar titled "Adobe For All" on Monday, Sept 23 from 2-3 pm. Learn what Adobe For All means to Adobe and hear about all their diversity and inclusion initiatives that help build their culture. Plus get a behind the scenes look at their Adobe For All Summit that took place last week! RSVP here: http://tinyurl.com/y57ptvuq

• The Fannie Lou Hamer Black Resource Center is expanding its library, and would love your donation of any new and/or lightly used study materials they might have for the LSAT, GRE, MCAT, etc. Please drop off anything you can to FLH.

Please let us know if you have any questions and feel free to share anything you'd like highlighted in future correspondence. Have a great weekend ahead whether you're headed to Yosemite or doing soemthing else!

Nuff respect,
Damion, Stacey, & Roland