Jacinda Townsend is the Appalachian Writer in Residence at Berea College. She is the author of “Saint Monkey” (Norton, 2014), which is set in 1950s Eastern Kentucky and won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for historical fiction. “Saint Monkey” was also the 2015 Honor Book of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.

The Entrepreneur Summit is an all-day event, jam-packed with entrepreneurial insight, networking and inspiration from top entrepreneurial minds. Speakers include Teresa Spangler, Diana Kander and Cheryl Cutlip. The finale of the day is the Big Idea Pitch! The entire event is free of charge and open to students of all majors, faculty, staff, and community members.

Through stories and images, Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin, the authors of “Junctures in Women's Leadership: The Arts” will present a historical perspective on feminist arts leadership. Brodsky is distinguished professor emerita of visual arts at Rutgers University and Olin is distinguished professor emerita of library science at Rutgers University.