Lisa Durden

2014

Here is your chance to get the 411 on internships!! Lisa Durden invites all of you CUNY (City College Of New York) students to attend her FREE workshop entitled: How to Make the Most of Your Internship. Where you’ll learn how you can turn your internship into a job. Presented by the CCNY Career & Professional Development Institute. There will even be internship opportunities FOR CREDIT, available for documentary projects she’s working on. Lunch is FREE!! That’s a good price!! SPREAD THE WORD! Tuesday, October 21, 2014, 12:30pm – 1:30pm, The City College Of New York, NAC 1/116, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031. To register call 212.650.5327.

Lisa Durden will be the featured guest speaker, facilitating a workshop entitled: The “Getting The Message Out,” @ The Youth Media Symposium, which is a group of dedicated, engaged and empowered young people from the city of Newark who are determined to call attention to the need for equity and excellence in all Newark public schools for all students. Tuesday, August 5, 2014, from 12:00PM – 2:00PM. Bradley Hall, Rutgers University, 110 Warren Street, Newark, NJ.

Lisa Durden will be featured guest speaker, facilitating a workshop entitled: “The Power Of Multi-Media Messaging,” to The Youth Media Symposium, which is a group of dedicated, engaged and empowered young people from the city of Newark who are determined to call attention to the need for equity and excellence in all Newark public schools for all students. Tuesday, July 17, 2014, from 9:00am – 11:00am. Bradley Hall, Rutgers University, 110 Warren Street, Newark, NJ.

2014

Lisa Durden is a featured panelist @ "The Unstoppable Girls Empowerment Summer Retreat," where she’ll speak to middle school & high school girls, about what makes her an Unstoppable woman and what they can do to be Unstoppable too! Saturday, August 16, 2014, from 9:00am – 11:30am. Paul Roberson Campus Center, Rutgers University, 350 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Newark, NJ, 07102.  To RSVP: please contact Roslyn Smith, PH 973.685.5698 • EMAIL This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Lisa Durden is a featured panelist at the Careers & Majors Fair, called, “Fight The Power: Careers in Social Justice and Community Give Back." Speaking to high school students as a journalist who focuses on the stories of the underrepresented.  She’ll also have a table where the participants can speak with her one on one about her career as a multi-media professional and the recent documentary she’s Associate Producing called, The Newark Project, which is a film study about education reform in Newark, NJ. It’s sponsored by Youth Symposium, NPS and partners. Held Saturday, May 10th 2014 from 11:45am - 12:30pm @ Rutgers University Paul Robeson Campus Center. 350 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Newark, NJ. 

Lisa Durden will be speaking on a panel called: “Is Finding The Man, The Same As Finding Love??” Friday, March, 21, 2014 @ The Newark Women’s Conference. Session One: 9:15am – 10:13am and Session Two:10:30am – 11:30am. It’s open to the public!! It promises to be HOT!! Location: Public Service Electric & Gas Company E. James Freland Conference Center. 80 Park Place, Newark, NJ  07102. Registration fee………$30.  Which includes a continental breakfast, lunch and the entire conference from 8:30a-2pm. To Register log onto :https://www.facebook.com/groups/newarkwomen/ 

2012

Soul Food Junkies

Iris Williams from "Soul Food Junkies" from Byron Hurt on Vimeo.

Reel Sisters is celebrating its 15th Anniversary in Brooklyn, New York and they selected award winning documentary, Soul Food Junkies to be a featured part of the program.  The Associate Producer, Lisa Durden and Director Byron Hurt, will participate in a post-screening Q&A session moderated by star of The Fresh Prince of Bel air, actress, Daphne Maxwell Reid and New York City’s WQXR radio host Terrance McKnight. Come join the discussion!  The screening will take place at the Reel Sisters Film Festival, 8:45p, Saturday, October 13, 2012, at the Kumble Theater For The Performing arts, One University Plaza, Brooklyn, NY.  Admission: $15. Buy tickets today at www.reelsisters.org.

2015

Lisa Durden is hosting WeCare’s “4th Annual Celebrating The Family Matriarch,” honoring Amina Baraka, the mother of Newark Mayor Ras. The event takes place at 6pm EST, Thursday, March 19, 2015 @ The Robert Treat Hotel. 60 Park Place, Newark,  NJ. 07102. For ticket information call:973-847-1983.

2012

Lisa Durden hosts the Jump Program Health Awareness Festival on Friday, June 1, 2012, at the New Jersey Training School for Boys where speakers will share the message of HIV/AIDS prevention. The program is sponsored by The University Of Medicine & Dentistry Of New Jersey.

2014

Lisa Durden will be the Mistress Of Ceremonies, at The Local Talk Community Foundation's, 5th Annual High School Students Public Speaking Scholarship Contest, where the winner will be awarded a $5,000 college scholarship. Saturday, 11am, November 22, 2014, live from Bella Italia Ristorante - 535 Central Ave. in Orange, NJ. To enter, please submit your entry at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by October 1, 2014. 

Carolyn Butts is happy to have Talk Show Host/Producer/Filmmaker, Lisa Durden, join the “Afraid Of The Dark” premiere as the Mistress Of Ceremonies, Friday, June 13th 2014. The film, directed by Mya B., explores the stereotypes projected onto African-American men by society and offers personal insights from such scholars, historians and entertainers as Dr. Cornel West, Dr. Khalid Muhammad and Malik Yoba. The screening is hosted by Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series on Friday, June 13th from 6:30pm - 8:30pm, @ Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts, LIU, Brooklyn located on Flatbush Ave. between Dekalb Ave. & Willoughby St. TICKETS: $10 BUY NOW http://www.eventbrite.com/e/reel-sisters-kumble-theater-present-brooklyn-pr For more information call 212-865-2982.

2012

Lisa Durden will be the Mistress of Ceremonies @ The Progressive Achievers, ARE YOU BEING YOUR BEST YOU, Annual Women’s Empowerment Luncheon. Sunday, October 28, 2012, 3pm – 6pm.  Newark Liberty International Airport, Renaissance Hotel, Elizabeth, New Jersey. Tickets are $60. For tickets call 973-985-5643, go to their website at www.progressiveachievers.org or email them @This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..