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Entrepreneur Panel – Black Research Symposium

March 24 | 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

As part of the Black Research Symposium, NC State Innovation and Entrepreneurship is hosting a panel of four entrepreneurs in various industries and stages of their career!

Please follow this link to learn more about the symposium and register to attend this panel as well as other events during the symposium March 23 – 25th, 2023.

This panel will be hosted at Hunt Library, in room IEI 4104. More details about the panelists and symposium:

About the panelists

Larry Long Jr is the Founder and CEO (that’s Chief Energy Officer) of LLJR Enterprises, which focuses on sales motivation, inspiration, and most importantly, transformation through speaking, coaching & training programs. He is the host of the weekly Live show, ‘Midweek Midday Motivational Minute’ and Author of ‘JOLT!’.

Nakyrah Radney is an NC State College of Design alum, who’s been using her college experience and artistic background to pursue her passions in entrepreneurship and content creation among various pursuits including her custom sneaker painting venture, Kyrah’s Kustoms.

Travis McKay was a 2022 NC State eGames winner and recent engineering researcher-turned-entrepreneur. Travis is the co-founder of a medical device company striving to make pre-hospital care easier for EMS providers.

Phillip “King Phill” Loken describes himself as a “Black Southern Culture Documentarian.”  His photography employs a range of approaches including fine-art, documentary, and character-studies, with the unifying thread being a desire to present bold and meaningful portraits of Black lives in the South from an insider’s perspective. Moreover, Loken’s body of work also contains film and collage. You can find King Phill’s latest press interview here, and sign up for his newsletter here.

 

More about the Black Research Symposium

The African American Cultural Center and NC State University Libraries invite our NC State campus and surrounding community to our first annual Black Research Symposium. We center the theme “The Power of Community: Afro-Diasporic Worldbuilding and a Sustainable Futurity.”  As the first of its kind on NC State’s campus, the Black Research Symposium will feature Black diasporic learning, scholarship, and epistemologies via cutting-edge research, storytelling, creative works, discussion circles, community-based projects, and industry initiatives from the NC State campus and surrounding community. The symposium is a three-day event that will take place on March 23 – 25, 2023.

Please follow this link to learn more about the symposium and register to attend this panel as well as other events during the symposium March 23 – 25th, 2023.

Details

Date:
March 24
Time:
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
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