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Friday, October 16, 2009
‘CSI: NY’ star to speak today at UD
Not all film and television actors spend their off-camera time hitting Hollywood parties and night clubs.
Hill Harper, who appears on the hit CBS drama series “CSI: NY” as the reclusive coroner Sheldon Hawkes, also is an author and activist who mentors young people.
Harper will give a free talk today, Oct. 16, at the University of Dayton as part of the university’s 2009-2010 Diversity Lecture Series. His lecture at 7:30 p.m. in the UD RecPlex is open to the public.
An Iowa native, Harper graduated magna cum laude from Brown University and earned two post-graduate degrees from Harvard University.
When Harper visits college campuses, he encourages students to be architects of their lives and to write their own destinies.
Harper has written three books, including the recently published “The Conversation: How Black Men and Women Can Build Loving Relationships.” He has written two New York Times’ bestsellers, “Letters to a Young Brother: MANifest Your Destiny” and “Letters to a Young Sister: DeFINE Your Destiny.” Both are advice books to teens.
Harper volunteers for Big Brothers, Big Sisters and speaks to youth in public schools about the value of an education. He established the MANifest Your Destiny foundation to inspire under served males to succeed. Harper recently launched a social network, For Real Solutions, aimed at encouraging solutions for society’s most pressing challenges.
As an actor, Harper’s credits also include the HBO movie, “Lackawanna Blues,” and the acclaimed independent film, “The Visit.” He also has appeared in “In Too Deep,” “Beloved,” “He Got Game,” “Get on the Bus,” “Zooman” and “One Red Rose,” which he co-wrote for Showtime.
The UD Diversity Lecture Series is intended to increase inclusion and diversity on campus and prepare students, faculty, staff and the Dayton community for success in a global society. Past speakers have included Andrew Young, Coretta Scott King, Spike Lee, Kirk Franklin, Nikki Giovanni and Soledad O’Brien.
Free parking for Harper’s talk is available in all single-letter lots: A, B, C, D, G and P.
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