Wilmington, N.C. – Glen Yearwood and Tim Campbell, two entrepreneurs from the United Kingdom with ties to Black and Asian ethnic groups in England as well as Barbados in the Caribbean, will visit the University of North Carolina Wilmington Jan. 27-30.
The purpose of their visit is to explore how they can help UNC Wilmington with reciprocal international student and faculty exchanges and use their expertise to improve campus diversity.
Both Yearwood and Campbell are motivational speakers with compelling life stories. They will meet with students and faculty in the Cameron School of Business and Center for Marine Science, and they will speak at a UNCW student summit at 7 p.m., Monday, Jan. 28 in Fisher Student Center's Lumina Theater. The public is invited to attend the student summit.
In addition, they will take their message about academic and career success to two early college high schools, two middle schools, and the Community Boys & Girls Club.
Max Allen, chief of staff for Chancellor Rosemary DePaolo, and Debra Saunders- White, vice chancellor for information technology systems and interim associate provost for institutional diversity and inclusion at UNCW, heard Yearwood and Campbell speak at a Black Expo last fall in Hampton, Va. and were impressed.
"We invited them to come to Wilmington to discuss possible ways for us to work together to tap into their extensive contacts with minorities and universities abroad, and to seek their assistance in helping us introduce UNCW and the greater Wilmington area to a different part of the world," explained Allen. "After hearing them speak, we also wanted to make it possible for large numbers of youth in Wilmington to hear their compelling life stories."
"They embody the topics of globalization, diversity and entrepreneurship that we've asked them to discuss during their visit," Saunders-White said.
She also noted that they would bring a different perspective to the issue of the African Diaspora. "As we approach Black History Month in February, their European view of the African Diaspora will be different from what we normally hear from the African-American point of view," she said.
Glen Yearwood is founder of the Glen Yearwood Group, a specialist communication consultancy in London, England, that uses a combination of traditional and non-traditional methods of communication, targeting groups based in major urban communities that can be described as Black and Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) in racial and cultural composition. He is a regular reference point for mainstream media on a number of issues related to ethnic media and cross-cultural communication. For more information, visit www.glenyearwoodgroup.com.
Tim Campbell was the first series winner of BBC-TV's "The Apprentice," which preceded the popular American television show of the same name. He founded the Bright Ideas Trust, a social enterprise to encourage young budding entrepreneurs to start business ventures by giving them greater access to start-up finance and business mentors. The Bright Ideas Trust has generated much excitement and interest from businesses and innovative young entrepreneurs throughout England. For more information, visit www.brightideastrust.com.
NOTE TO MEDIA: You are cordially invited to cover their presentation to the Isaac Bear Early College High School student body starting at 10 a.m., Monday, Jan. 28, in the Warwick Center at UNC Wilmington.
Media contact:
Dana Fischetti, manager of news and media relations, 910.962.7259 or fischettid@uncw.edu
