SPORTS OPINION ARTS Newton passionate about AFL Turn over a new leaf in your career Ambitious brothers produce commercial The Berkeley Beacon Emerson College’s student newspaper since 1947 • berkeleybeacon.com Thursday October 20, 2016• Volume 70, Issue 6 THE FEATURE Star-studded summit brings students to the stage Bret Hauff, Beacon Staff be attending, but the chat quickly became unwieldy and evolved into a private group When Faith D’Isa first heard that the of more than 100 students. Top: Audience annual Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit would “This whole thing is about networking, members pay be in Boston this October, she knew she so I figured why not network together,” attention to the had to go. she said. speakers at Un- “If I don’t get this scholarship,” D’Isa Thousands of college students and der30Experiences, said of the financial support Forbes of- young professionals from across the world held at Cutler fered Emerson juniors, seniors, and grad- poured into the city from Oct. 16 to 19 to Theatre. uate students, “I’m going to pay the $600 hear from some of the most iconic names Middle: Guest it costs to go.” in business, entertainment, and athletics, speaker Brian The Individually-Designed Interdisci- including founder of Virgin Group Sir Wong, founder plinary Program senior was elated some Richard Branson, actress and entrepre- of Kiip, presents weeks later to find out she had been neur Jessica Alba, and Olympian Michael anecdotal advice awarded a proverbial golden ticket to the Phelps. for the audience. international summit for young entre- “[Forbes 30 Under 30] is great for stu- Bottom: Students preneurs. But instead of chocolate rivers dents to connect, but it’s also great for our participate in a and everlasting gobstoppers, she’d soon city and for sharing ideas,” Boston Mayor Q&A with guest indulge in the words of noteworthy pro- Marty Walsh said as he roamed between speaker Ashton fessionals and the company of her driven the tents of the buzzing Under 30 Village Kutcher in front of peers. in City Hall Plaza, a meeting point for all the audience. Au- D’Isa was ultimately one of 147 Emer- summit participants. dience members son students who were given a free pass While the Under 30 Village served as were not purely to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Summit, according a hub for networking and entertainment, Emerson students. to Sharon Duffy, interim senior associate attendees flocked to the content stages • Bret Hauff / dean of campus life. around the city to hear from industry Beacon Staff D’Isa said she started a Facebook chat for everyone from the college who would See Industry, page 2 Campus conversations grow cultural competency Matthew Graham-O’Regan talked about an event like this with Pro- Beacon Correspondent vost Michaele Whelan following student protests in Spring 2015. Emerson hosted a day-long conversa- As a co-chair for the ad-hoc Cultural tion about race on Friday in the Cutler "We know Competency Committee, formed in the Majestic Theater, continuing its efforts to wake of the student demonstrations about become more culturally competent, . that our the treatment of minorities and the lack of The goals of the Teach-In on Race were diversity at Emerson, Asim began plan- to enhance student, faculty, and staff un- college is ning the event. derstanding of race, particularly in the not an ivo- “I don’t think we would have arrived at U.S., President M. Lee Pelton said at the those conversations without the students event. ry tower." having sparked them,” Asim said. “We know that our college is not an ivo- —President After deciding to hold a teach-in about ry tower,” Pelton said at the event. race, Asim reached out to Nathaniel The Office of Academic Affairs and the M. Lee Charles and Lucie Pereira, co-chairs of President's Office sponsored the event, in Protesting Oppression With Educational coordination with the Office of Diversity Pelton Reform (POWER), for insight. and Inclusion. Eddie Glaude Jr., chair of the Center for Humans of New York Jabari Asim, associate professor of writ- African American Studies at Princeton By Lee Ann Jastillana • p. 9 ing, literature, and publishing, organized the Teach-in on Race. Asim said that he See Teach-in, page 3 The Beacon online /berkeleybeacon @BeaconUpdate berkeleybeacon berkeleybeacon berkeleybeacon news The Berkeley Beacon October 20, 2016 2 Industry experts inspire Boston students uct pitches from young entrepreneurs, he cording to a poll D’Isa posted in the Face- said, and felt uncomfortable about mod- book group she created. erators’ tendency to cater to male panel- "I got a lot Of the various entrepreneurs, artists, ists more than females. and athletes that spoke at the event—in- “I know that Forbes is male-centric,” of great cluding co-founder of theSkimm Car- he said. “A lot of females are doing kick- advice ly Zakin, recording artist Halsey, and ass work, but it seemed like they weren’t USA Olympic gymnastic captain Aly given the chance to talk about it.” from the Raisman—the person that stood out to her most was Broadway star Okieriete U30 Impact speak- Onaodowan, known for his role in the Senior communications studies major award-winning production Hamilton. Lea LeBlanc said both days of panels on ers. I was “They did a smart thing by getting Northeastern’s Impact stage, located in people with very different backgrounds,” Blackwell Auditorium at Ell Hall, were able to she said. helpful to her as a member of Emerson’s interact D’Isa said Onaodowan’s speech about E3 entrepreneurial program. his professional life, particularly his pur- “It was really valuable to hear where with peo- suit of documentary filmmaking, showed the passion was,” she said. that sometimes people have hidden and The aspiring social entrepreneur said ple who unexpected passions. her favorite panel was “Changing the Her only complaint was that she didn’t Conversation, ” which addressed ways to taught have time to do as much as she would achieve success as an industry outsider. have liked to, she said. She said the com- LeBlanc said only one panel disap- me things bination of the music festival, the bar pointed her: “Reforming the World’s about my crawl, and the food festival, in addition to Workplace.” The panel aimed to take on the content stages, was a bit overwhelm- issues of gender in the workplace, but industry... ing. LeBlanc said only one of the five panelists Although she spent most of her time was a woman of color, and that the mod- It allowed with Emerson students there, she said erator failed to address issues of intersec- the U30 Create stage offered her oppor- tionality, the crossover of social identities me to tunities to meet and connect with people that can sprout new forms of discrimina- whose passions may not match hers, but The Cutler Majestic Theatre was packed for the tech stage. • Bret Hauff / Beacon Staff tion. become are encouraging nonetheless. Leblanc said she still took the summit a more “I got a lot of great advice from the continued from page 1 Office of the Arts, said the summit posed as an opportunity to network and learn. speakers, I was able to interact with peo- a unique challenge: more people showed She gave out business cards and pitched capable ple who taught me things about my in- professionals. up than could be packed into the venue, ideas to other attendees, she added. dustry and other industries and how they These stages—Capital at Faneuil Hall, which seats 1,100 at capacity. “I’m asking myself, ‘If they did it why profes- work together,” D’Isa said. “It allowed me Impact at Northeastern University, Tech Kochey said she volunteered to help can’t I do it?’ And I will,” she said. “I guess to become a more capable professional.” at Emerson, and Create at the Harvard corral the unwieldy crowd on her day off I learned that you’ve just got to go for it.” sional" Business School—featured panels and and ended up missing class because of it. presentations from entrepreneurs, celeb- “I don’t know how it could have been U30 Create —Faith rities, and venture capitalists. managed better,” Kochey said. “They just Of the opportunities available to the D'Isa shouldn’t have booked as many people as nearly 150 students who received the U30 Tech they did.” scholarship from Forbes, the Create stage The Cutler Majestic Theatre hosted an One reason for the backup, Kochey in Burden Hall at the Harvard Business [email protected] unfamiliar bunch when its doors opened said, may have been that Emerson invited School was clearly the most popular, ac- Monday afternoon to hundreds interest- students, staff, and faculty to an event that ed in technology and development. The had so many registered already. Cutler Majestic stage, typically home to Duffy said she brokered this deal with Emerson productions, presented some of Forbes to give opportunities to members the biggest players in the tech industry, in- of the Emerson community who weren’t cluding Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary, eligible for or didn’t receive the scholar- co-founders of Sound Ventures. ship. Scott Wallace, senior production man- Senior marketing communications ager for the Office of the Arts, said pre- major Alex Ilyadis took advantage of this paring for Forbes wasn’t much different opportunity. He said he went to the Tech from the hundreds of other productions stage because he’s anticipating a career in his office coordinates each semester. the industry. “It’s another event that we dedicate all Ilyadis said he felt mixed emotions of our professional skills and attention to about his experience.