Michael Carter, Senior Advisor to the President and Chief Diversity Officer, Derek Allen, Professor/Chair of Hospitality Management/Culinary Arts, and the Sociology department’s Professor Amaha Selassie having fun at the Sankofa Kente Stole ceremony on May 4. Source: Photo by Carlos Jillson.Each year since 2016, the Sankofa Kente Stole ceremony has honored Sinclair’s graduates of color. It brings the Sinclair community together to celebrate their accomplishments. Shown: a graduate posting with their son. Source: Photo by Carlos Jillson.Staff from the Funk Hall of Fame and Exhibition Center showing off their Funk Box to visitors of an open house at Dayton Metro Library’s west branch. May 4. Source: Photo by Carlos Jillson.One of the UAS Center’s Flyability Elios 2 UAS at an event announcing the winner of the 2022 Sinclair College UAS Business Plan Competition. June 1. Source: Photo by Carlos Jillson.Aurea Rivera, the winner of the 2022 competition and founder of Carbon Metrics Global, and Douglas Wirth, the winner of the 2021 competition and founder of Airborne Solutions of Ohio. June 1. Source: Photo by Carlos Jillson.Scott Koorndyk from the Entrepreneur’s Center at the Hub in Dayton leads a group from the competition’s ceremony on a tour of the Hub and the Dayton Arcade. June 1. Source: Photo by Carlos Jillson.Sinclair’s office at the Hub. June 1. Source: Photo by Carlos Jillson.Visitors to the recently-opened International Peace Museum during Dayton Pride. June 4. Source: Photo by Carlos Jillson.Crowd watching a musical performance at Dayton Pride. June 4. Source: Photo by Carlos Jillson.A volunteer explaining the record sealing process to an attendee of a Housing Resource Fair. June 11. Source: Photo by Carlos Jillson.Dayton city commissioner Shenise Turner-Sloss and workers at the Housing Resource Fair. June 11. Source: Photo by Carlos Jillson.President Johnson shaking hands passing on a letter of congratulations to a student at Sinclair’s 2020 Graduation Celebration on June 12, 2022. The event had been postponed during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Source: Photo by Carlos Jillson.Sinclair graduates walking at the 2020 Graduate Celebration. June 12. Source: Photo by Carlos Jillson.Sinclair graduates walking at the 2020 Graduate Celebration. June 12. Source: Photo by Carlos Jillson.Attendees posing for a photo at the 2020 Graduate Celebration. Source: Photo by Carlos Jillson.A student posing with a letter of congratulations signed by President Johnson. June 12. Source: Photo by Carlos Jillson.A family having fun at the 2020 Graduate Celebration. Source: Photo by Carlos Jillson.A family posing for a photo at the 2020 Graduate Celebration. Source: Photo by Carlos Jillson.Teachers learning how to build guitars at a STEM guitar workshop in the Guitar Lab at Sinclair. June 14. Source: Photo by Carlos Jillson.Though the NSF grant that funds these workshops has recently expired, the Guitar Lab anticipates that these types of workshops will continue. Teachers take the guitar building skills they learn at Sinclair back to their schools. June 16. Source: Photo by Carlos Jillson.Sierra Leone and others getting ready to open Sinclair’s Juneteenth event. June 17. Source: Photo by Carlos Jillson. Sierra Leone delivering poetry at Sinclair’s Juneteenth event, with the accompaniment of a drummer. June 17. Source: Photo by Carlos Jillson.Elders at Juneteenth. June 17. Source: Photo by Carlos Jillson.A piece at “The Artist’s Life,” an exhibition presented by the African American Visual Artists Guild at the Burnell R. Roberts Triangle Gallery. It is titled “Colin Kaepernick, George Floyd Knee Cushion #3.” Source: Photo by Carlos Jillson.
