Senator Kamala Harris and Dr. Harry L. Williams, President & CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund sat down for a fireside chat during the annual Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) event for its 47 member-school presidents and chancellors.
Guest speaker is Center native Ashley Odom speaking on Historically Black Colleges and Universities
The reintroduction of the HBCU Preservation Program would reauthorize funding for grants to restore historic buildings and sites on the campuses.
Approximately 40 percent of the members of Congress are HBCU graduates, according to the Network Journal, a Black professionals and small business magazine.
“It is a wonderful experience,” Malone said. “It is a fantastic opportunity for any student selected to go, being put in front of hundreds of Fortune 100 companies and given the opportunity to sell yourself.
Attending the Leadership Institute conference is a highly competitive process that vets Thurgood Marshall College Fund students throughout the country. Four hundred and five students were selected to attend the Leadership Institute out of 2,000 total applicants.