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Student Leadership Conference
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- network and connect with other student leaders
- develop skills necessary for student leadership positions on campus
- participate in sessions that introduce new ideas, challenge ways of thinking and empower students to make a difference. It's open to college students across the state of Wisconsin.
This event includes a continental breakfast and lunch.
Where
Bemis International Center
100 Grant Street, De Pere, WI 54115, United States
Speakers
Payton Head
Payton Head is invested in developing institutional cultures that are grounded in equity. He empowers students and campus administrators to fight hatred with radical love for others and themselves.
Head is a 2016 graduate of the University of Missouri where he served as President of the student government. Following the events in Ferguson, he spearheaded conversations about improving race relations in the state of Missouri.
Head’s latest work has been internationally focused. He spent the summer of 2018 in Amsterdam and at the European Parliament in Strasbourg analyzing the rise of populism in the West. He also traveled to Israel and Palestine and learned from activists and lawmakers in Ramallah and Jerusalem about American solidarity in the ongoing conflict.
Head represents American youth of the African Diaspora with the United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent. In October 2019, he was selected to address the African Union and United Nations in Dakar, Senegal advocating for the investment in youth initiatives that unite young people of African Descent.
Head holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science with certifications in Leadership, Multicultural and Black Studies from the University of Missouri. He holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy Studies with certifications in Global Conflict and International Development Policy from the University of Chicago. He is a Fall 2014 initiate of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated and a 2020 New Leaders Council Chicago Fellow.