Join the Griot Institute for an exciting experience with West African drumming! Lessons will be held weekly on Mondays throughout the semester. This opportunity is free of charge! No experience necessary and instruments are provided. Register by emailing griot@bucknell.edu.

O'Leary is the chairman of O'Shares Investments and Beanstox, an automated internet-based investment advisory service. He also holds investments in over 50 private venture companies across a wide range of sectors. He is a member of Boston's 120-year-old Hamilton Trust, the oldest investment club in the U.S. He has been a contributor to CNBC, ABC News and Good Morning America and a venture capitalist. O'Leary is also an investor/host of ABC Television's five-time Emmy Award-winning venture capital reality programs Shark Tank and Beyond the Tank, produced by MGM/Sony/ABC. O'Leary is author of three No. 1 New York Times best-selling books: Cold Hard Truth, Men, Women and Money, and Family Kids and Money. After completing his MBA at the Ivey Business School of the University of Western Ontario in 1980, O'Leary worked briefly as an assistant product manager at Nabisco Brands. He left to pursue a career in television production and became a founding partner in Special Event Television, an independent production company that produced original sports programming. In 1986, he co-founded SoftKey Software, the first software company to apply the principles of consumer goods marketing to the software industry. SoftKey grew quickly as the price of personal computers declined and millions of North American families began to buy software for family education and entertainment. After a series of acquisitions, SoftKey changed its name to The Learning Company in 1996. In May 1999, The Mattel Toy Company acquired The Learning Company for $4.2 billion. In 2003, O'Leary became co-investor and a director in Storage Now, a leading developer of climate-controlled storage facilities. Through a series of development projects and acquisitions, Storage Now became an owner/operator of storage services with facilities located in 11 cities serving such companies as Merck and Pfizer when it was acquired by the In-Storage REIT in March 2007 for $110 million. In July 2007, O'Leary became a founding Special Purpose Acquisition Company investor and director of Stream Global Services Inc., focused on the growing outsourcing business services market.Event Information O'Leary is one of four nationally renowned speakers participating in this year's Bucknell Forum — a speaker series that since 2007 has featured national leaders, scholars and commentators who have examined various issues from multidisciplinary and diverse viewpoints. All Bucknell Forum events are free and open to the public, although tickets are required. Current Bucknell students and employees may receive up to two free tickets at any campus box office location, or online, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. one day prior to the event. A valid Bucknell University ID is required to receive advance tickets. Use of multiple Bucknell IDs to pick up additional sets of tickets is prohibited. Remaining tickets will be available for the general public at the Weis Center box office beginning at 6 p.m. on the day of the event. All individuals may receive up to two free tickets, depending on availability. Questions regarding this event may be directed to the Division of Marketing & Communications (mailto:https://www.bucknell.edu/azdirectory/marketing-communications) at 570-577-3260 or theforum@bucknell.edu (mailto:theforum@bucknell.edu).

His latest album, Kinfolk 2: See the Birds, is the highly anticipated follow-up to his 2017 Grammy Award-nominated album, Kinfolk: Postcards From Everywhere. Smith's videos have been viewed by millions of people, underscoring his popularity as one of the most influential drummers of his generation.

Join the Black Student Union for its annual celebration of Black life and culture through a visual production of fashion, style, and aesthetic.

Join the Griot Institute for an exciting experience with West African drumming! Lessons will be held weekly on Mondays throughout the semester. This opportunity is free of charge! No experience necessary and instruments are provided. Register by emailing griot@bucknell.edu.

Drew Darrow Memorial Poetry Reading Leslie Sainz February 27, 2024 Leslie Sainz is the author of Have You Been Long Enough at Table (Tin House, 2023), winner of the 2024 Audre Lorde Award and a finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award and the Vermont Book Award. The daughter of Cuban exiles, her work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, Yale Review, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Originally from Miami, she lives in Vermont and works as the managing editor of New England Review. She is a former Stadler Fellow at Bucknell. The annual Drew Darrow Memorial Reading is organized by the Bucknell Writing Center and co-sponsored by the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts. The reading honors the memory of Drew Darrow, a 1986 graduate of Bucknell and Writing Center student-employee who died in 1997. His parents, Carl and Mimi Darrow, along with family and friends, established the fund that supports the reading in Drew's memory.