NORFOLK, Va., Oct. 13, 2022 – Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Commissioner Sonja Stills is scheduled to speak on the panel Disrupting the Digital Divide in Esports at the U.S. Black Chambers’ ByBlack Annual Conference, on Thursday, Oct. 20.
The panel is scheduled to start at 11:05 a.m. on the Bellagio Main Stage at the MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md.
With Verizon as the presenting sponsor, discussion topics will include, but are not limited to:
- How 5G technology is revolutionizing gaming;
- Innovative partnerships across the industry around 5G gaming;
- The Verizon Game Forward Scholarship, dedicated to female students at HBCUs; and
- Verizon’s sponsorship of the inaugural HBCU Esports League.
Joining Stills on the panel will be Tarrin Morgan, esports coach at Morgan State University; Dexter Carr, Game 4 Good founder and CEO/president of the Baltimore chapter of the Esports Trade Association; and Malcolm Coley, co-founder and chief technology officer of Futures First Gaming.
Michele Cober, Director of External Affairs for Verizon, will moderate.
About the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) is in its 52nd year of intercollegiate competition with the 2022-23 academic school year. Located in Norfolk, Va., the MEAC is made up of eight outstanding historically black institutions across the Atlantic coastline: Coppin State University, Delaware State University, Howard University, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Morgan State University, Norfolk State University, North Carolina Central University and South Carolina State University.