Area leaders coming together Feb. 1 for Black History Month kickoff at NASA’s Marshall Center
Media Advisory: 01-023
Area leaders coming together Feb. 1
for Black History Month kickoff at
NASA's Marshall Center
What:
Leadership forum at NASA's Marshall Space
Flight Center features professionals from the
medical, legal, political and business fields
focusing on life strategies for success. Forum
topics include how to balance career with
family, and maintaining cultural identity within an
organization. The one-hour event is open to the
public with a question and answer period
following each discussion. Topics are part of
this year's Black History Month theme at
Marshall — "Creating and Defining the
African-American Community: Family, Church,
Politics, Culture."
Who:
Birmingham Mayor Bernard Kincaid; Madison
District Court Judge M. Lynn Sherrod; Russell
Brown, president of DP Associates and
immediate past president of the
Huntsville-Madison County Chamber of
Commerce; Dr. Frederick Cason, division chief
of surgery at the University of Alabama at
Birmingham School of Medicine-Huntsville; Jim
Kennedy, deputy director of the Marshall
Center.
Where:
Marshall Center's Morris Auditorium, Building
4200 on Rideout Road.
When:
Thursday Feb. 1, 1-2 p.m.
To attend:
News media interested in covering the event
should contact Jerry Berg of Marshall's Media
Relations Department at (256) 544-0034
NOTE: Effective Jan. 1, all drivers requesting a visitor pass to
Redstone Arsenal will be asked at the gate to provide proof of
liability insurance on their vehicle if it is registered in Alabama.
Failure to provide proof of such insurance will result in denial of a
pass, and drivers also may be issued a citation. This is being
done in compliance with Alabama's Mandatory Insurance Act.
