Come one, come all! Join us for an afternoon with incarceration advocate and best selling author Mr. Tracey Syphax at Whitman College in Olin Hall 138 on Monday, December 11 at 4:30pm! Mr. Syphax has spent his career advocating to end mass incarceration by using proper reentry tools. He has joined with the Obama Administration and companies from across the American economy as a founding partner for the launch of the Fair Chance Business Pledge. Through his entrepreneurship courses and motivational speaking, he offers formerly incarcerated individuals the opportunity to succeed. Mr. Syphax believes in reuniting families and strengthening communities through what he cites as the 3Es: Education, Employment, and Entrepreneurship - viable approaches for reentry. Syphax is also the author of the award-winning memoir, “From The Block To The Boardroom,” and the recipient of numerous awards, including:
**2016 One of the 25 Most Influential African Americans in New Jersey
**2014 White House Champion of Change
**Empower Magazine’s 2014 Person of the Year
**Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce’s 2011 Entrepreneur of the Year; 1st African American in 51 years to receive this award
Mr. Syphax's talk is supported by Whitman College's Department of Rhetoric Studies and the Robert and Mabel Groseclose Endowed Lecture Fund. Additional thanks to Provost and Dean of Faculty Alzada Tipton and Washington State Penitentiary Classification Counselor Becky HaneyNixon for facilitating Mr. Syphax's visit.
Monday, December 11, 2017 at 4:30 pm
Olin Hall, Auditorium (Rm 138)
920 E Isaacs, Walla Walla, WA
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