Penn State Greater Allegheny held its Crossing Bridges Summit on Oct. 25 in the Wunderley Gymnasium. The event featured provocative intellectual and ground-breaking author Cornel West.
Penn State Greater Allegheny Crossing Bridges Committee Members pose next to Cornel West before the Crossing Bridges Summit Speaker Series on Oct. 25, 2019, at the Wunderley Gymnasium on the McKeesport-based campus.
Cornel West takes a photo with Angel Jaap and James Jaap, teaching professor of English. Jaap introduced West to the more than 400 people in attendance.
Members of McKeesport's Youth C.A.S.T. Leadership network await the start of the Crossing Bridges Summit at Penn State Greater Allegheny, Oct. 25, 2019.
A portrait of the late Terrell Jones who served as Penn State's vice provost for educational equity. On Oct. 25, during Penn State Greater Allegheny's Crossing Bridges Summit Speaker Series, the campus' African American Male Mentoring Program (AAMMP) was renamed to honor Jones's leadership in diversity and inclusion.
Cornel West and Johnathan White discussing love, peace and justice at Penn State Greater Allegheny's Fall 2019 Crossing Bridges Summit Speaker Series event in the Wunderley Gymnasium, Oct. 25, 2019.
Johnathan White, lecturer in history, preparing to ask Cornel West questions during a moderated interview at Penn State Greater Allegheny's Wunderley Gymnasium for the Crossing Bridges Summit Speaker Series, Oct. 25, 2019.
James B. Stewart, professor emeritus at Penn State, accepts an award at Greater Allegheny's Crossing Bridges Summit Speaker Series event on Oct. 25, 2019, in the Wunderley Gymnasium.
Provocative Intellectual and ground-breaking author Cornel West and Penn State Greater Allegheny's Chancellor and Chief Academic Officer Jacqueline Edmondson in the lobby of the Wunderley Gymnasium before the Fall 2019 Crossing Bridges Summit Speaker Series event.
Cornel West speaking at Penn State Greater Allegheny's Crossing Bridges Summit Speaker Series, Oct. 25, 2019.
From left to right: Thomas Poole, visiting scholar at Greater Allegheny; Marcus Whitehurst, vice-provost of the Office of Educational Equity; a portrait of the late Terrell Jones; James B. Stewart, professor emeritus at Penn State gather before the start of Greater Allegheny's Crossing Bridges Summit on Oct. 25, 2019, in the Wunderley Gymnasium.
