Speaking | The Black Urbanist Speaking – The Black Urbanist
Are you looking for a keynote speaker, workshop leader, panelist or panel moderator who gets the technical side of urbanism, and how it works in real life? Someone who can rally a group of long-working and suffering organizers? Someone who’s comfortable with all our jargon, but just as comfortable making the same speech on a table at the Waffle House? That’s me. Here’s a sampling of my speeches and panels over the years.
In April 2012 I spoke at UNC-Chapel Hill on the African-American Great Migration. At the time, I’d not done my own version of the Great Migration. However, I’d love to discuss my many travels, especially post move.
In 2014 I delivered the diversity keynote to the APA Virginia Annual Conference, a speech called The New Diversity in Planning. In this case, I wanted to talk about alternative definitions of diversity and in the process, introduced a trademark of my speeches, my personal story and how it ties back into urbanism.
Additionally, at a breakout session at the same conference, I introduced this concept I like to call the civic-inferiority complex.
In the fall of 2016, I presented a revised version of how to cure the Civic Inferiority Complex at CityWorksXpo in Roanoke, VA.
And finally, here’s my most recent presentation, in the spring of 2018, where I take my life story and use it to help illustrate how planning and development affect all of our lives at a spring meeting of the Urban Land Institute Memphis.