Last night we hosted rap icon Sandy Denton, aka Pepa from Salt-N-Pepa. The group is the best selling female rap group of all time, and they were honored by VH1 a few years ago. They also had a new reality show recently.

This was Pep's FIRST speaking engagement. She joins the ranks of others who cut their speaking teeth at PSC (Karrine Steffans and Free). So we spent some time in my office just talking about the series and how much fun it is. The local newspaper sent a reporter to interview her, and we had a GREAT article in today's paper (Thanks Lamor!)

She mingled with the reception guests, and then did the program. She essentially talked about the struggles she chronicles in her book- the series of abuses she faced. She said she really didn't find her voice until she wrote the book.

"I stand before you a changed woman," she declared. She talked about how she rationalized reasons to stay in bad situations, and how many other women do the same. As she read a list of signs of abuse, the nervous laughter increased. I know we have students who are abused. I just hope she reached some of them so they can get some help.

Also- look for Pep's appearance to be seen in next month's The Source magazine. One of our students is an intern.

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