Nestlé Celebrates Black History Month

SOLON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nestlé USA:

When:	Friday, February 12, 2010; 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (12:05 pm keynote address)
	(If you’re planning to cover the event, please contact us Thursday to coordinate.)
Where:	Signature of Solon Country Club, 39000 Signature Drive, Solon, Ohio 44139
What:	Join us as we celebrate Black History Month at Nestlé Prepared Foods Company with accomplished author and actor Hill Harper. This special program is hosted by the Nestlé Black Employee Association, dedicated to the growth and development of Nestlé's human resource base and to strengthening Nestlé's ability to attain its long-term objective to be the Very Best Food & Beverage Company in the U.S.

About our guest:

Currently one of the stars of CSI: NY, Hill Harper has also proved successful as an author, completing his second book in a series, Letters to a Young Sister: DeFINE Your Destiny. Harper provides the frequently regarded “lost generation” with words of encouragement and guidance. In his first of the series, Letters to a Young Brother: MANifest your Destiny, Harper shares the humbling life lessons he learned on the road to his Ivy League education and beyond. It is a motivational, but approachable book full of encouragement on a wide array of topics geared towards young African-American and Hispanic men. Revolutionary in how he deals with adolescent issues that no other writer has dared to penetrate, Harper won both NAACP Image Awards that he was nominated for in March 2007, Outstanding Literary Work by a Debut Author, and Outstanding Literary Work for Youth/Teens.

As an undergraduate at Brown University and a graduate student at Harvard, Hill Harper continued to act while earning a bachelors degree in arts and a JD in law and government. While at Harvard, Harper was also a full time member of the Boston Black Folks Theater Company, one of the nation’s oldest and renowned theater groups. Harper is now a volunteer of Big Brother Big Sisters in LA and participates in other organizations helping to mentor and educate the youth of America, an issue very close to his heart.

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