The HHEW 100 Group was founded in 2001 as an online networking group
Our Mission Statement: We are a think tank of international professionals who engage in African-centered dialogue and action to enhance the community and world through leadership and development.
HHEW stands for Hilton Higher Education Worldwide, which is an extension of Dr. Keith Orlando Hilton's syndicated column, and also the media, education and leadership consortium that he founded in the 1990s. Although the majority of the people in the group are African-Americans (like KOH), and located throughout the country in places such as California, Illinois, New York, Virginia, Maryland and Texas, it also has members from/in Canada, Jamaica, Guyana, St. Kitts, Haiti, Nigeria, England and Liberia. Within the group are 10 Ph.D.s, 8 J.D.s, 14 doctoral students/candidates, 4 MBAs, 6 attorneys, 1 judge, 2 newspaper publishers, a film maker, a slam poet, several educators, 3 ministers, and several other parents and professionals interested in discussing, understanding and elevating the Black world experience. Members agree that it is okay to disagree. And yes, we have online rules and guidelines.
The HHEW 100 is a think tank (and DO tank)! Today it also serves as the primary advisory body and sounding board for the entire consortium. Various members also head the consortium's inter-professional associations. The annual HHEW Leaders Conference & Retreat was first held in 2004 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Since then attendees and presenters from various professions have come from places as diverse as California, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, New York, Texas, Florida, Nevada and Jamaica. Now open to the public, four special features of the conference are; 1) 95% of the attendees also present papers or serve on discussion panels, 2) clear implementation strategies are generated, 3) ongoing discourse is facilitated via the HHEW 100 and INVR/HHEW associations and 4) the conference & retreat serves as the first source for journal articles and position papers. Heavily engaged in research, team-building, public policy, leadership development and advocacy, the primary media outlets used by the HHEW 100 are the Journal of Unabridged Genius and HHEW Street, the quarterly e-news album.
Although a college degree is not required to be a member of the HHEW 100 (don't forget that Fannie Lou Hamer, Elijah Muhammad and Marcus Garvey were unlettered, but very, very great), we are proud of the fact that many of our members have attended and/or worked at institutions as diverse as Howard, Yale, Princeton, the Claremont Colleges, Stanford, St. Paul's, Columbia, Penn, Fielding, Clark Atlanta, The Citadel, Rutgers and the University of the West Indies.
Further, we are proud to note that leaders and leadership, as researched in the TALO Leadership Theory, can be found in roles as diverse as parenting, community organizing, politics, law, religion, business and in international relations, etc.
An earlier official HHEW 100 Members group mural - below PDF
6-14-10_-_hhew_street_photos.pdfFile Size: 4564 kbFile Type: pdf
=====================================================================================================================
A Few More Insiders' Notes:
In essence there are eleven levels within The HHEW 100 as a think tank:
HHEW stands for Hilton Higher Education Worldwide, which is an extension of Dr. Keith Orlando Hilton's syndicated column, and also the media, education and leadership consortium that he founded in the 1990s. Although the majority of the people in the group are African-Americans (like KOH), and located throughout the country in places such as California, Illinois, New York, Virginia, Maryland and Texas, it also has members from/in Canada, Jamaica, Guyana, St. Kitts, Haiti, Nigeria, England and Liberia. Within the group are 10 Ph.D.s, 8 J.D.s, 14 doctoral students/candidates, 4 MBAs, 6 attorneys, 1 judge, 2 newspaper publishers, a film maker, a slam poet, several educators, 3 ministers, and several other parents and professionals interested in discussing, understanding and elevating the Black world experience. Members agree that it is okay to disagree. And yes, we have online rules and guidelines.
The HHEW 100 is a think tank (and DO tank)! Today it also serves as the primary advisory body and sounding board for the entire consortium. Various members also head the consortium's inter-professional associations. The annual HHEW Leaders Conference & Retreat was first held in 2004 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Since then attendees and presenters from various professions have come from places as diverse as California, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, New York, Texas, Florida, Nevada and Jamaica. Now open to the public, four special features of the conference are; 1) 95% of the attendees also present papers or serve on discussion panels, 2) clear implementation strategies are generated, 3) ongoing discourse is facilitated via the HHEW 100 and INVR/HHEW associations and 4) the conference & retreat serves as the first source for journal articles and position papers. Heavily engaged in research, team-building, public policy, leadership development and advocacy, the primary media outlets used by the HHEW 100 are the Journal of Unabridged Genius and HHEW Street, the quarterly e-news album.
Although a college degree is not required to be a member of the HHEW 100 (don't forget that Fannie Lou Hamer, Elijah Muhammad and Marcus Garvey were unlettered, but very, very great), we are proud of the fact that many of our members have attended and/or worked at institutions as diverse as Howard, Yale, Princeton, the Claremont Colleges, Stanford, St. Paul's, Columbia, Penn, Fielding, Clark Atlanta, The Citadel, Rutgers and the University of the West Indies.
Further, we are proud to note that leaders and leadership, as researched in the TALO Leadership Theory, can be found in roles as diverse as parenting, community organizing, politics, law, religion, business and in international relations, etc.
An earlier official HHEW 100 Members group mural - below PDF
6-14-10_-_hhew_street_photos.pdfFile Size: 4564 kbFile Type: pdf
=====================================================================================================================
A Few More Insiders' Notes:
In essence there are eleven levels within The HHEW 100 as a think tank:
- We operate as a family of professionals sitting around the table addressing issues. We are not a body that operates behind closed doors with corporate or political interests.
- We conduct transdisciplinary and African-focused research; and engage in advocacy.
- We are in the business of empowering and re-empowering all people and organizations, and in particular Acknowledged Africans via a transdisciplinary leadership approach.
- We regularly discuss serious and light issues via email, so because the volume of emails sometimes gets heavy, KOH often recommends that members have a dedicated email address solely for HHEW 100 discussions. This is recommended, but not required.
- We use our annual conference & retreat as the forum to do face-to-face networking, career development, job contacts, African-centered fellowship, R&R, professional presentations, and to discuss in-house INVR/HHEW and HHEW 100 matters.
- We use our in-house ejournal, “The Journal of Unabridged Genius,” as the main publication to officially publish position papers, individual scholarly and/or activist pieces, and to allow others worldwide to submit their research – provided their research also meshes with the TALO Leadership Theory.
- We serve as experts via news media articles, quotes, and as keynote speakers.
- We are committed to assisting other members with completing their social action projects.
- We mentor younger members and prospective members.
- We strongly encourage all people to work toward the TALO Leadership Theory's 13 incentives.
- We are a think tank AND “do” tank!