For Immediate Release
September 8, 2010
Kim Novak of NovakTalks to Deliver Keynote at 12th Annual National Convention
of Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA – More than 100 women coming together for the 12th annual national convention of Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. will have an opportunity to participate in bystander intervention training facilitated by Kim Novak, a recognized national expert in student-focused risk management, hazing prevention and campus safety.
The convention, held from September 9 – 12, 2010, will provide a forum for the Sorority’s membership to reflect on the organization’s progress and growth over the preceding 13 years. This occasion will also mark the beginning of a focused, proactive initiative to educate the Sorority’s members on the legal and interpersonal import of risk management and bystander intervention.
Novak—an independent consultant for Campus Safety, Student Risk Management and Student Organization Development—has previously presented at national conferences and on college campuses around the country. She has served on the faculty of several nationally sponsored professional institutes including the National Interdisciplinary Hazing Intervention Institute, renamed the Kimberly Novak Hazing Prevention Institute in 2010 in her honor.
Novak, a former review board member of the U.S. Department of Education Higher Education Center for Alcohol Other Drug and Violence Prevention Review Group, currently serves as a Center Fellow. She maintains professional consulting partnerships with Margolis, Healy & Associates, LLC, an internationally recognized campus safety consulting team, as well as Symplicity, an award-winning organization that is reinventing information technology (IT) consulting.
At the upcoming convention, Novak will offer comprehensive workshops for the general membership. She will also train membership officers in bystander intervention and risk management methods, informing both membership intake and development, and day-to-day chapter operations.
Amanda Tomchak, national president of the Sorority expresses excitement “for the opportunity to have Ms. Novak educate [the] membership on such important issues.” Tomchak reflects further, “It is important that we take advantage of the fact that our organization is very young and become proactive in educating our members on serious topics such as risk management and hazing prevention. I am proud to lead Theta Nu Xi in this important initiative and am grateful to have Ms. Novak supporting our endeavor.”
Novak will deliver the keynote address at the Sorority’s 10th annual Butterfly Banquet on Saturday, integrating the message of her training workshops with the efforts of the Sorority’s national administration to present the new initiative in a positive and motivating way.
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Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. was founded on April 11, 1997, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a mission to promote leadership, multiculturalism, and self-improvement through academic excellence, involvement in and service to the campus and community, as well as being living examples of sisterhood across different races, cultures, religions, backgrounds, and lifestyles. To learn more about Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. visit
www.thetanuxi.org.
CONTACT: Rashida Rawls, Director of Communications, Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc., e-mail:
director_communications@thetanuxi.org
