{"id":4634,"date":"2020-06-10T17:05:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T17:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/?p=4634"},"modified":"2023-12-06T19:11:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T19:11:20","slug":"virtual-conversation-leading-during-a-climate-of-racial-tension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/2020\/06\/10\/virtual-conversation-leading-during-a-climate-of-racial-tension\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Conversation: Leadership during a climate of  racial tension"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/about-the-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr. Tonjua<\/a> Williams joined local African-American leaders for a virtual conversation on how their leadership could help with the current racial tensions. The <a href=\"https:\/\/tbbwmag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tampa Bay Business and Wealth Magazine (TBBW)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tampa Bay Partnerships<\/a> hosted the Listen to Learn and Lead discussion on June 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TBBW Publisher and CEO Bridgette Bello, who serves as a member of SPC\u2019s Board of Trustees, moderated the Virtual Connect series, along with Rick Homans, CEO and President of Tampa Bay Partnerships. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The leadership panel included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bemetra Simmons, Chief Strategy and Operations Officer, United Way Suncoast<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Biran Butler, CEO and President, Vistra Communications<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hugh Campbell, Co-Founder, AC4S Technologies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TBBW and the Tampa Bay Partnership&#039;s Virtual Connect: Listen to Learn &amp; Lead\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M83rZTYdV7g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Tonjua Williams joined local African-American leaders for a virtual conversation on how their leadership could help with the current racial tensions. The Tampa Bay Business and Wealth Magazine (TBBW) and Tampa Bay Partnerships hosted the Listen to Learn and Lead discussion on June 4. TBBW Publisher and CEO Bridgette Bello, who serves as a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":4637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[14,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-spc-inspires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4634"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5330,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634\/revisions\/5330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}