2008 Guest Speakers

Office of Multicultural and International Student Services

Justin Jones-Fosu, Founder and President/CEO of JS Trtaining, LLC and JUSTIN INSPIRES

Justin INSPIRES is on F.I.R.E (Fun, Informative, Relevant, and Energetic). Justin presents messages that uplift the heart, while giving applicable steps to achieving goals and ultimately one's destiny. Many people have been to enough "Motivational" speeches where they get pumped up and do not have any practical steps they can use to continue with what was learned. Justin "inspires" by inciting participants to action in leadership, vision, goal achievement, overcoming obstacles and very real life principles.

Website: http://www.jstrainingsolutions.com

E-mail: Justin@jstrainingsolutions.com

Saturday Afternoon

Mike Domirtz, leading expert on healthy dating,consent, and sexual assault awareness

Mike has been making a difference in the lives of others for over a decade by working with students, parents, educators, athletes, professionals, organizations, and the media throughout the country. Mike's unique ability to connect with audiences of all ages and demographics results in presentations that are both educational and entertaining. He has a gift of understanding precisely when to engage your students with his hilarious sense of humor ~ while at the same time knowing the exact moment to draw serious and hard-hitting emotion from each individual.

Audiences have never seen a healthy dating or sexual assault speaker like Mike Domitrz. With Mike, you will NOT get a lecture full of statistics. You will get an interactive expert who inspires people to make powerful and life changing decisions!

Website: http://www.canikissyou.com

E-mail: http://www.canikissyou.com

Saturday Evening

Regent Dora G. Alcalá, Dora Alcalá was appointed to The Texas State University System Board of Regents by Governor Rick Perry in July 2004.

She recently served as Mayor of Del Rio and chairwoman of the Texas Border Infrastructure Coalition Transportation Committee. For thirty-seven years, she worked in the area of Human Resources Management, Financial Management, and Educational and Equal Employment Opportunity for the United States Air Force. She also served abroad in Madrid, Spain and in the continental United States at the Pentagon, in Albuquerque, San Antonio, and Montgomery, Alabama. While in Montgomery, she served as the Director of the Ira C. Eaker Center for Professional Development.

Mrs. Alcalá is a recipient of the Distinguished Public Service Award given by the Governor of New Mexico and the California Hispanic Woman of the Year Award given by the Mexican-American Opportunity Foundation. She also received the Woman of the year Award from the National Council of Hispanic Women. In 1998, she received the Yellow Rose of Texas Award from then Governor Bush.

Mrs. Alcalá is a graduate of Sul Ross State University and received a master's degree in management from Webster University in St. Louis. She is also a graduate of the Air University's Academic Instructor's School at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama.