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Johnny Brownlee II

Speaker/Author/Owner
One Man Many Talents
Country or state 
United States (Florida)
Available to 
North America
City 
Pompano Beach
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Languages 
English
Volunteer
Yes

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Bio

Johnny "Slin-K" Brownlee is from Pompano Beach, Florida. He is a nationally touring speaker and workshop presenter. He is a freelance ghostwriter, contributor, and blogger for a number of internet sites and magazines, for hip-hop, social commentary, and relationship articles. He holds degrees in Political Science and Urban and Regional Planning. He is the former two-time Director of Florida Atlantic University’s former agency, Black Student Union & Multicultural Programming. An organization that at the time was one of the largest and best-funded student organizations in the nation, with 600+ members and six-figure budgets. He’s the Author of Getting In Our Own Way: The Degradation of Student Organizations

Current position (1)

Speaker/Author/Owner

One Man Many Talents

Degrees (2)
Political Science
Florida Atlantic University
2006 to 2008
Urban & Regional Planning
Florida Atlantic University
2002 to 2007

Presentations

Presentations (5)
Getting In Our Own Way : The degradation of Student Organizations

Across the nation, our student organizations are struggling and student governments are struggling. Many seem to be on their last leg, past their prime, etc. Organizations don’t have the activism and sacrifice of students from the 60’s and 70’s, drive of the 80’s, the urgency of the 90’s or money and participation of organizations from the early 2000’s. We seek to see if it’s a generational issue, leadership issue or are other factors the problem. We examine 6 sinister problems that are costing student organizations funding, stability, sustainability, etc. We’re often taught how to be good leaders, but never how to run good organizations, revive them or save them from peril.

We’ll learn how to get diversity, inclusion, representation, funding, respect and cooperation so that we can take our organizations to levels not even imagined. We not only discuss how to grow a large membership, and obtain a large budget, but how to make a deep impact on your campus.

Breaking the Chains : Death to Willie Lynch

Is a black history / black awareness ( great for Hispanic Heritage also) workshop, that takes a strong look at the history that slavery and colonialism had and currently has on the lives of Africans, African Americans, Caribbean’s and Latinos, who are usually overlooked, underrepresented and not historically taught about their roots in Atlantic Slave Trade. We look at all of the obstacles to our Unity, Progress and Prosperity both home and abroad. We read and dissect, both the original letter and the new and largely unheard of New Willie Lynch Letter, to find answers to how we can solve our own problems within our community and countries of origin. Even though the Letter has been called a hoax, there is no denying the truth that can be found in it, and it being a possible hoax, has not stopped racist organizations from teaching and carrying out the mission of the letter. A message that needs to be heard and can be applied by all Africanized people, minorities, and peoples of color.

Breaking the Chains, Death to Willie Lynch 2: The Institutions of Slavery

Part two is both the prequel and the sequel to the original workshop. We continue to take a look at the history that slavery and colonialism had and currently has on the lives of Africans, African Americans, Caribbean’s and Latinos, by taking a detailed look at who benefited from slavery. We examine the institutions (countries, governments, families, businesses, etc.) that benefitted and in some cases are still benefitting from slavery.

Breaking the Chains, Death to Willie Lynch 3: How does Slavery Affects us Today ?

In part three we examine how slavery’s aftermath still affects our daily lives? We examine how slavery affects; (What we eat, where we live, superstitions, traditions, religion, etc.). Then we Break a number of myths and false teachings. We’ll also celebrate all that we have accomplished in spite of slavery, Reconstruction’s debacle, Jim Crow, and modern day problems, and lastly have a discussion about self-determining what we wish for our legacy to be and how we plan to go about achieving that legacy, so that each participant leaves the session changed and with a plan of action.

It’s Conference, Not Carnival

It’s Conference, Not Carnival is a spinoff of the Book and workshop Getting In Our Own Way: The Degradation of Student Organizations. We seek to reverse this trend and thought process of administration not seeing the value of conferences and students not focusing on the right aspects of conference, by teaching students to treat conference as a business trip; teaching them how to masterfully work the conference so that they focus on the right things, develop and can be trusted and encouraged to go to conferences. As students attending a conference is a privilege, not a birthright.

This workshop is needed so that students know how and when to request funding for conferences, how to properly plan for, cover, attend and learn from the conference; and once back at school share and implement what they’ve learned so that administrators and student governments don’t feel funds were wasted.

Past talks (28)
Getting In Our Own Way Degradation of Student Organizations, Breaking The Chains : Death to Willie Lynch
National Black Student Leadership Conference
Raleigh, NC
December 31, 2013
Our Generation Will Make The Change
Annual MLK Teen Summit
African America Research Library - Fort Lauderdale, FL
December 31, 2013
Getting In Our Own Way : The Degradation of Student Organizations
I am Queen Conference
Florida Atlantic University - Boca Raton, FL
December 31, 2013
Getting In Our Own Way, Breaking The Chains
Black Leaders Acquiring Critical Knowledge / You Beautiful Black Woman Conference
Ferris State University, Big Rapids, MI
December 31, 2013
Getting In Our Own Way : The Degradation of Student Organizations
The National Conference on Race and Ethnicity
Indianapolis, Indiana
December 31, 2013
Getting In Our Own Way : The Degradation of Student Organizations
National Black Graduate Student Association Conference
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
December 31, 2013
Getting In Our Own Way : The Degradation of Student Organizations
Association of Black Culture Centers
University of Illinois - Champaign, IL
December 31, 2013
Getting In Our Own Way Degradation of Student Organizations, Breaking The Chains : Death to Willie Lynch
National Black Student Leadership Conference
Raleigh, NC
December 31, 2014
Breaking the Chains: Death to WiIlie Lynch
Black Student Leadership Conference
University Of Florida - Gainesville, Fl
December 31, 2014
Getting In Our Own Way Degradation of Student Organizations
Black Solidarity Conference
Yale University - New Haven, CT
December 31, 2014
Getting In Our Own Way, Breaking The Chains
BIG XII Conference on Black Student Government
Oklahoma State University - Stillwater, Oklahoma
December 31, 2014
Getting In Our Own Way : The Degradation of Student Organizations
National Black Graduate Student Association Conference
Jacksonville, Fl
December 31, 2014
Getting In Our Own Way : The Degradation of Student Organizations
United Haitian Students of Florida Leadership Retreat
Tampa, FL
December 31, 2014
Panel Discussion
All Lives Mater Community Forum
Urban League of Broward County
December 31, 2014
Pannel Discussion
Our Lives Count Community Forum
Delray Beach, Fl
December 31, 2014
Getting In Our Own Way : The Degradation of Student Organizations
Association of Black Culture Centers
North Eastern University, Boston, Mass.
December 31, 2014
Breaking The Chains 2
Black Student Leadership Conference
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
December 31, 2014
Getting In Our Own Way : The Degradation of Student Organizations
Southwestern Black Student Leadership Conference
Texas A&M University - College Station, TX
December 31, 2015
Getting In Our Own Way : The Degradation of Student Organizations
Student Leadership & Diversity Conference
University of South Carolina - Columbia, SC
December 31, 2015
Getting In Our Own Way, Breaking The Chains 1,2
Big XII Conference on Black STudent Government
University of Kansas- Lawrence, Kansas
December 31, 2015
Getting In Our Own Way : The Degradation of Student Organizations
Florida Caribbean Student Association
University of Tampa - Tampa, FL
December 31, 2015
Breaking The Chains: Death To Willie Lynch
Florida African American Student Association
Daytona, FL
December 31, 2015
Breaking Chains Through Unity
Black Student Leadership Conference
University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl
December 31, 2015
Getting In Our Own Way : The Degradation of Student Organizations
Florida African American Student Association Leadership Retreat
Jacksonville, FL
December 31, 2015
Breaking the Chains part 2, Getting In Our Own Way
Black Issues Conference
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
December 31, 2016
Breaking The Chains 1-3, Getting In Our Own Way
Big XII Conference on Black Student Government
University of Texas, Austin, TX
December 31, 2016
Breaking The Chains part 3, Sankofa Pan-Africanism
The Pan-African & Ally Student Summit
St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud Minnesota
December 31, 2016
Getting In Our Own Way : The Degradation of Student Organizations
New England LatinX Student Leadership Conference
Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA
December 31, 2016
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Getting In Our Own Way : The Degradation of Student Organizations
Johnny Brownlee ,
2013
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Leadership
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Student Leadership Black History Slavery intersectionality Student involvement Civic Engagement Organization group economics group politics student government student activism Racism African American History American history
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