Regional HBCU Leadership Summit

The newly launched Regional HBCU Leadership Summits are open to all (LGBTQ and ally) student leaders on campus, and assures that participating students build the skills and competencies to lead effectively through the intersections of race, religion, gender identity and expression, class and sexual orientation on campus and beyond. The summit also includes a daylong capacity building and LGBTQ sensitivity training for staff, faculty and administrators aimed at providing tools and resources to better support LGBTQ students on campus.

In launching this series of on-campus events, we have taken an aggressive step to expand the work that we have been doing for more than a decade through our National HBCU Leadership Summit for LGBTQ student leaders from HBCUs.

2019 Regional HBCU Leadership Summits

In 2019, the HBCU Program expanded the leadership development by adding two Regional HBCU Leadership Summits hosted at Johnson C. Smith University from September 20 – 22, 2019, and at Dillard University (in partnership with Xavier University of New Orleans) from October 4 – 6, 2019. 

Staff Sessions

• Understanding S.O.G.I.E and Trans / Non-Binary Identities

• Examining HIV and HBCUs

• Supporting Black / African American LGTBQ Youth

• Action Planning for LGBTQ Inclustion and Support

Student Sessions​

• Leading at the Intersections

• Power and Privilege 

• Ending the Epidemic

• Student Activism

• Social Justice Round Table Discussions (included: Planned Parenthood, NAACP, True Colors United, Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault)

Click Here for 2020 Regional Summit RFP