Urban revitalization strategist Majora Carter to keynote Messiah College’s Spring Humanities Symposium
February 7th, 2014
GRANTHAM, Pa. (Feb. 7, 2014) — Majora Carter, Peabody Award-winning broadcaster, will deliver the keynote address “Home(town) Security” Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. in Parmer Hall in the Calvin and Janet High Center for Worship and Performing Arts. The lecture is sponsored by the Messiah College Center for Public Humanities and is part of the college’s annual Spring Humanities Symposium. Admission is free, but a ticket is required. To obtain a ticket, contact the Messiah College Ticket Office at 717-691-6036 or tickets@messiah.edu. For a full symposium schedule visit, www.messiah.edu/documents/CPH/Spring-Humanities-Symposium-Brochure.pdf.
About Majora Carter
Majora Carter is an internationally renowned urban revitalization strategist, Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and is responsible for the creation and successful implementation of numerous green-infrastructure projects, policies and job training and placement systems. Her long list of awards include accolades from groups as diverse as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, John Podesta’s Center for American Progress, Goldman Sachs, as well as a MacArthur “genius” Fellowship. Carter embodies the American Dream. She has continually set new standards of excellence with projects in her South Bronx community, while expanding her reach nationally and internationally. Her philanthropic pursuits and business interests have all pointed toward greater self-esteem and economic potential for low-income people everywhere.
About the Humanities Symposium
Since 2004, the Center for Public Humanities at Messiah College has sponsored an annual School of Humanities Symposium devoted to the discussion of a common theme. Past symposium themes have included community and belonging, the human imagination, and technology and humanity; keynote speakers have included James Leach, Alan Wolfe and Henry Louis Gates Jr. Over the past 10 years, faculty and students have regularly contributed to the Humanities Symposium.
About Messiah College
Messiah College, a private Christian college of the liberal and applied arts and sciences, enrolls over 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Established in 1909, the primary campus is located in Mechanicsburg, Pa., near the state capital of Harrisburg.
