Programs & Events
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Preliminary Program • Featured Events • Golf Tournament • Exhibit Hall
Diversity Reception with Special Guest Speaker "Magic" Johnson
Wednesday, June 4, 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Aetna Student Health
This year’s Diversity Reception features special guest Earvin “Magic” Johnson! Mr. Johnson is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Magic Johnson Enterprises, which was formed in 1987. Through strategic investments, partnerships, and endorsements, Magic Johnson Enterprises (MJE) provides products and services that particularly focus on ethnically diverse urban communities.
Magic Johnson Enterprises is comprised of a portfolio of companies that include Urban Coffee Opportunities (making Magic Johnson Enterprises the only joint venture partner of Starbucks), Canyon-Johnson Urban Fund which is the country’s largest private real estate fund focused on the revitalization of underserved communities, over 30 Burger King restaurants, a dozen 24 Hour Fitness Magic Sport centers, a T.G.I. Friday’s restaurant, and a long-standing partnership with AMC Magic Johnson Theatres.
Magic Johnson Enterprises recently launched several additional initiatives: SodexoMagic, LLC and respective partnerships with Aetna and Best Buy. SodexoMagic, LLC provides and extensive portfolio of food and facilities management services as well as offers signature dining facilities. Magic Johnson Enterprises’ alliance with Aetna will empower businesses and ethnically diverse communities to make informed choices about health care options by improving health care literacy and demonstrating the benefits of wellness. Similarly, Magic Johnson Enterprises has entered into a multiyear relationship with retail giant Best Buy to enhance urban retail growth strategies and implement diversity outreach with multicultural consumers.
As Chairman and Founder of the Magic Johnson Foundation, Inc., Mr. Johnson is dedicated to developing programs and supporting services that address the educational, health and social needs of ethnically diverse, urban communities. Founded in 1991, the Magic Johnson Foundation (MJF) has become one of the most recognizable charitable organizations around the world.
Over the past few years, the Magic Johnson Foundation has awarded more than $1.1 million to community-based organizations that focus on HIV/AIDS education and prevention, established four HIV/AIDS clinics and has co-created the award winning “I Stand With Magic” campaign to end HIV/AIDS in the black community. Additionally, the Magic Johnson Foundation has supported more than 800 minority high school students with college scholarships (many through the organization’s Taylor Michaels Scholarship Program), opened 20 Magic Johnson Community Empowerment Centers located in underserved communities across the country, and provides a range of community-based initiatives including an annual children’s Mardi Gras, holiday toy drive and semi-annual job fair.
Mr. Johnson is universally known for his 13-year career in the NBA. His honors include: five national championships with the Los Angeles Lakers, three MVP awards, 12 NBA All-Star games, a gold medal at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, and induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Mr. Johnson is currently Vice President and part owner of the Los Angeles Lakers.
Please join Mr. Johnson as he shares his thoughts and experiences on the importance of health literacy and the need to ensure that it addresses the ethnic and cultural diversity of the student population on college campuses today.
The Diversity Reception, hosted by the Allies for LGBT Health Coalition and the Ethnic Diversity Coalition, will be held Wednesday, June 4 at 6:30 pm.
For more information about Magic Johnson Enterprises, please visit www.magicjohnsonenterprises.com.