Fairfield’s three-day celebration honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. begins with an interfaith prayer service on Wednesday, Jan. 24 and concludes with a youth leadership on Friday, Jan. 26. However, the celebration’s highlight is LaFarge Convocation keynote speaker, Dr. Diana L. Hayes.
Hayes will deliver the annual address on Thursday, Jan. 25 at 3 p.m. in the Quick Center. Hayes has authored several books including “Were You There?: Stations of the Cross,” which won a second place peace award for spirituality from the Catholic Publishers Association, in addition to her senior faculty status as a professor of systematic theology at Georgetown University.
Hayes is the first African-American woman to earn the pontifical doctorate in sacred theology from Catholic University of Lovain, Belgium after graduating from the State University of New York at Buffalo and earning a J.D. from George Washington National Law Center.
After the convocation, the Martin Luther King Jr. Vision Award will be given to four people whose lives reflect Dr. King’s vision at a 6 p.m. dinner in the Barone Campus Center.
The campus center will host approximately 125 Bridgeport middle school students on Friday who will be participating in a youth leadership workshop to conclude the celebration.
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