8:00am – 5:15pm     Registration & Information Table

8:30am – 9:45am            Welcome Breakfast & Keynote by Dr. Kris Marsh

Dr. Kris Marsh is a professor, researcher and author of The Love Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class. Dr. Marsh’s general areas of expertise are the Black middle class, demography, racial residential segregation, and education. She has combined these interests to develop a research agenda that is divided into two broad areas: avenues into the Black middle class and consequences of being in the Black middle class.

10:00am – 11:11am          Individual Research Presentations

11:25am – 12:35pm       Individual Research Presentations 

12:35pm – 1:15pm          Networking Lunch

1:20pm – 2:00pm            Research Poster Session & Undergraduate Research Poster Competition

2:15pm – 3:15pm            Workshop Presentations 

3:30pm – 4:30pm            Workshop Presentations 

4:45pm – 5:15pm            Closing Ceremony

6:30pm  BDN Networking Social (in Biltmore Hotel lobby)