Events

Upcoming Events

  • Patrick Healy Dinner 2023

    Saturday, January 14, 2023 | Fairmont Washington, D.C., Georgetown

    Join President John J. DeGioia, the Georgetown University Black Alumni Council, and the Georgetown University Alumni Association at the annual Patrick Healy Dinner. Each year, the Patrick Healy Dinner celebrates the achievements of Georgetown University’s Black community across all of the campuses.

    The upcoming 2023 dinner will take place Saturday, January 14, 2023 at 7 p.m. at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington D.C. We hope you’ll join us for this night of honor as we continue celebrating diversity at Georgetown while simultaneously providing financial assistance to students in our community.

Past Events

  • 2022 | Inaugural Black Alumni Council Community Forum

    Tuesday, December 13, 2022 | 7-8 p.m. ET | Virtual

    Alumni joined the Georgetown University Black Alumni Council for a virtual Inaugural Black Alumni Council Community Forum to learn more about the Council and its future plans.

    Black Alumni Council Chair Mannone A. Butler (B’94, L’99) and Vice Chair Winoka Wendy Wilkes (SFS’91) were joined by the BAC’s inaugural Board of Advisors, who are working together on ways Black alumni can remain engaged with the Council, the Alumni Association, and the university. They provided an overview of Council goals for the upcoming year.

    Future virtual community forums, like this one, will be a gathering place where Hoyas can have their voices heard, and opportunities to ask important questions.

  • 2022 | Black Alumni Summit

    Hundreds of Hoyas gathered at the Conrad DC from October 20-23, 2022  for an incredible weekend of fellowship, conversation, and celebration. You can relive some of the enlightening conversations from the Summit by visiting the Georgetown University Black Alumni Council’s Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook pages or by watching our 2022 Black Alumni Summit Highlights video. Stay tuned for more captured moments from this exciting weekend on the Black Alumni Summit website.

  • 2022 | The Intersection of Academy and Activism: A Critical Conversation with Black Leaders and Scholars on the Hilltop

    September 20, 2022 | Virtual

    The Chronicle of Higher Education recently reported that, as of 2019, Black women are disproportionately underrepresented on University campuses, making up only 2.1% of tenured associate and full professors at U.S. universities.

    In this conversation, Black women faculty and administrators on the Hilltop discuss what it means to be a scholar or leader in the academy in the midst of heightened calls for racial justice and equity. The panel explores how their scholarship and activism converge, on and off-campus, and how their work may inform social change.

    This conversation was moderated by Melissa Bradley (B’89), Professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, and featured Dr. Nadia Brown, Professor of Government, chair of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and affiliate in the African American Studies program at Georgetown University and Dr. Adanna Johnson, Associate Vice President for Student Equity and Inclusion and Leader of the Office of Student Equity and Inclusion (OSEI) at Georgetown University.

    This panel was part of the Critical Conversations series being hosted in the lead-up to Georgetown’s Black Alumni Summit. Learn more about the 2022 Georgetown University Women’s Forum at womensforum.georgetown.edu.

The Black Alumni Summit

The biennial Black Alumni Summit is planned by and for the Black Alumni community of Georgetown University. It is hosted by Georgetown University Alumni Association and the Black Alumni Council to celebrate the professional and personal achievements of our diverse and accomplished Black alumni community. The summit brings undergraduate and graduate Black alumni from across the globe, classes, schools, eras, professions, and walks of life back to the Hilltop to reconnect with each other and with the university.

The Patrick Healy Dinner

The annual Patrick Healy Dinner celebrates the achievements of Georgetown’s African-American alumni, students, faculty, staff, and administrators. Proceeds from the dinner support the Patrick Healy Scholarship, which promotes diversity at Georgetown by providing assistance to students who have demonstrated financial need for scholarship aid.

Soul Hoya Reunion Weekend

Soul Hoya Reunion Weekend is a way to reconnect with our fellow alumni, remember our shared experiences, and re-engage with the institution that played such a vital part in our educational and personal growth.