Dr. Freeman Hrabowski to Moderate Discussion at Center for Urban Families’ Urban Visionary Awards

BALTIMORE - May 14, 2014 - PRLog -- The Center for Urban Families’ (CFUF) will welcome University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) president Dr. Freeman Hrabowski on June 4th as discussion moderator for its 3rd Urban Visionary Awards. CFUF’s Urban Visionary Awards is designed to honor trailblazers who do outstanding work in communities across the nation. This year, the Center will honor founder and PolicyLink CEO Angela Glover Blackwell as its national honoree and OWN Network’s “Beyond Belief” host, author Wes Moore as its local honoree. Blackwell and Moore will engage in a thought-provoking “living room chat” about challenges and solutions for urban communities as one of the event highlights.

Dr. Freeman Hrabowski has served as president of UMBC since 1992 and was named one of “America’s Best Leaders” by U.S. News & World Report, which ranked UMBC the nation’s #1 “Up and Coming” university in 2008. He also was recently appointed by President Obama to chair the newly created President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans. CFUF Founder and CEO, Joe Jones commented “We’re extremely honored that Dr. Hrabowski has signed on to be a part of one of the Center’s milestone events.” Past Urban Visionary Award recipients include Geoffrey Canada of the Harlem Children’s Zone; philanthropists Eddie and Sylvia Brown; Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund and her husband Peter Edelman, distinguished law professor at Georgetown; and Diane Bell-McKoy, President and CEO of the Associated Black Charities. Special recognition was also given to Campaign Manager of the Open Society Foundation’s Campaign for Black Male Achievement, Shawn Dove.

About CFUF’s Urban Visionary Awards
The Urban Visionary Awards will be held on June 4th at the Maryland Institute College of Arts’ Brown Center from 6-9pm. Inquire about the Urban Visionary Awards by visiting www.cfuf.org/uva or by sending an e-mail to uva@cfuf.org.

About CFUF
Since its founding in 1999, CFUF has remained at the front-line of addressing some of Baltimore’s most pressing issues including poverty, unemployment, father-absence and family disintegration. Through attitudinal-based employment training, service and support for low-income fathers and family-based programs, CFUF continues to further its mission to strengthen urban communities by helping fathers and families achieve stability and economic success. For more information about CFUF’s programs, visit www.cfuf.org.