North Carolina Central hosts HBCU Athlete Movement Summit on NIL

North Carolina Central University is hosting the HBCU Athlete Movement Summit on Friday and Saturday, when athletes who attend a historically Black college or university can participate in catered programming, including related to name, image and likeness opportunities.

Registration costs $125. An online description of the event says it’s goal is “Bringing HBCU student athletes together to learn how to build their personal brands, capitalize on their name, image, and likeness (NIL), and use their influence to change their lives, communities, and the HBCU landscape.”

Registration for the HBCU Athlete Movement Summit starts at 5 p.m. ET on Friday, June 9. Activities are scheduled from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. There are seven different sessions scheduled for Saturday. They include topics such as “My Journey As An HBCU Athlete,” “How to Show Up and Stand Out” and “Getting Started with Personal Branding and NIL.” In the afternoon and evening, there are three breakout sessions, including Content Creation 101, Financial Success for Now and Beyond, and How to Leverage Your Power as a Student Athlete to Create Change.

In the evening, there’s a closing, followed by a three-hour social event.

North Carolina Athletes will be guest speakers

There are 17 guest speakers listed. They include Terrance Adams, Birshari Cox, Jalea Culliver, Chenae Erkerd, Thai Floyd, Yolanda Gardner, Jessica Gordon, Laila Jackson, Cullen Jones, Nashika Kent, Jessie Malit, Angelica McDonald, Bobby McNeil, Josiah Russell, Devin Smith, Ivory Tabb and Juan Velarde.

Jones is a two-time Olympic gold medalist swimmer.

Several of the guest speakers at North Carolina Central athletes. Malit, Smith and Velarde play football. Culliver is a golfer and Jackson is a track and field athlete. The HBCU Athlete Movement Summit is held in conjunction with the North Carolina Central Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.

McDonald is an attorney and the co-founder of Rise HBCU, an organization whose goal is to provide NIL education, information and opportunities to athletes who attend HBCUs.

“If you’re an HBCU student athlete, this is a conference created with you in mind,” Rise HBCU’s website states. “Because there isn’t a conference specifically for HBCU student athletes, we wanted to create a space for you to learn and grow, and feel comfortable being yourself. This isn’t going to be your typical conference. We are curating our sessions and the conference experience as a whole based on what you, as a HBCU student athlete, finds important and are interested in.”