Noted scholar Adisa Ajamu visits Delta College - April 19
"Saltwater Fish in Freshwater World"

(Stockton)
San Joaquin Delta College's Cultural Awareness Program (CAP) and the African American Employee Council (AAEC) are pleased to present a lecture by Adisa Ajamu (pronounced Ah-dee-Sah  Aj-jah-Moo) entitled "Saltwater Fish in Freshwater World: Contours, Complexities and Celebrations in African American Life and Culture" on Thursday, April 19, at 4:30 p.m. in Upper Danner Hall at San Joaquin Delta College. This event is FREE and open to the public.

A prominent educator and scholar, Adisa Ajamu brings his unique perspective to this presentation. Mr. Ajamu currently serves as the Executive Director of the Atunwa Collective Community Development Think Tank located in Los Angeles, and served as the founding program manager for the Substance Abuse and Mental  Health Services Agency (SAMHSA) where he designed, developed and implemented the Minority Fellowship Program for the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT/MFP). He has been a Scholar in Residence in the Department of Black Studies at San Francisco State University, is a Visiting Scholar at Virginia Commonwealth University, and former educational consultant for the State of California and the Center for Applied Cultural Studies and Educational Achievement at San Francisco State University. He is an active member of the Association of Black Psychologists and the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations (ASCAC).

Co-author of The Psychology of Blacks: An African Centered Perspective and the recently published fourth edition of The Psychology of Blacks: Centering Our Perspectives in the African Consciousness (2010), Adisa is a contributing author to the ASCAC World History Project and Black Psychology (edited by Reginald Jones), and has published numerous scholarly essays, articles, book reviews and book chapters on African and African American life and culture. Currently, he is completing two books: An Intellectual History of Black Psychology and a collection of essays on African American life and culture.