Black Students of California United
In 2015, ABEN’s founder, Debra Watkins, asked Angie Barfield, Jacky McFadden and Angelo Williams to help create a state-wide organization focused on the civic and cultural development of Black students in high and middle schools.
In 2016, we held our first highly-successful Day of Activism at the state capitol in Sacramento as well as our first conference at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento.
In 2017, our second annual conference was held at San Jose State University to much acclaim.
In 2019, we will be hosted at Cal State Monterey Bay.
While the conference is the highlight of our program year, we do so much more! Please check out our website at BlackStudentsCU.us This year, we have 43 high schools in our network and 7 middle schools primarily from Northern California.
On March 9, 2019, we will be hosting a Leadership Forum at the Claremont Colleges to expand our work throughout Southern California.
If you know of schools that are not yet part of our network, please encourage them to follow our work via our website and plan to join when we re-open admissions in 2019!
In 2016, we held our first highly-successful Day of Activism at the state capitol in Sacramento as well as our first conference at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento.
In 2017, our second annual conference was held at San Jose State University to much acclaim.
In 2019, we will be hosted at Cal State Monterey Bay.
While the conference is the highlight of our program year, we do so much more! Please check out our website at BlackStudentsCU.us This year, we have 43 high schools in our network and 7 middle schools primarily from Northern California.
On March 9, 2019, we will be hosting a Leadership Forum at the Claremont Colleges to expand our work throughout Southern California.
If you know of schools that are not yet part of our network, please encourage them to follow our work via our website and plan to join when we re-open admissions in 2019!
