Sessions For: VProv Access and Opportunity
2 sessions available from October 29, 2025 to October 30, 2025
Our media training sessions can help you improve your communication skills, including how to create your message clearly and concisely, how to engage with the media effectively and how to handle difficult questions or scenarios.
What is media training? Interactive, in-person instruction on the fundamentals of interacting with the media to tell the public about your research and mission.
Skills you’ll learn:
• Handling tough questions
• Hone your key messages so you aren’t misquoted
• Learn how reporters work and what they need from you––and how to get what you need from them.
• An understanding of how working with media can help your career.
• Overcome anxiety about interacting with reporters
Who we are: Our media team of storytellers and multi-media experts are all former print and broadcast journalists.
What is media training? Interactive, in-person instruction on the fundamentals of interacting with the media to tell the public about your research and mission.
Skills you’ll learn:
• Handling tough questions
• Hone your key messages so you aren’t misquoted
• Learn how reporters work and what they need from you––and how to get what you need from them.
• An understanding of how working with media can help your career.
• Overcome anxiety about interacting with reporters
Who we are: Our media team of storytellers and multi-media experts are all former print and broadcast journalists.
1 session on October 30, 2025
Men of Color Leading & Investing in Community (M-CLIC) presents: "The CLIC-N-CUTZ" Barbershop Series
Topic: “Prioritize You: Men's Mental Health Matters”
Featuring Special Guest: Waymond Hayes, Director, Early Learning/Youth Development, Focus: HOPE
Join us for an inspiring event as Waymond Hayes encourages men to take charge of their mental health. Together, we’ll shed light on the unique mental health challenges that men often encounter and explore effective coping strategies for overcoming them.
About M-CLIC: M-CLIC is a university-wide mentorship initiative open to all participants of any race or gender who seek to engage and foster a stronger sense of community and support for men of color at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
Event Highlight: M-CLIC's signature workshop, the "CLIC-N-CUTZ" Barbershop Series, a unique, informative, and safe-spaced barbershop experience. Beyond free haircuts and refreshments from local licensed barbers, participants sit back and engage in trending topics and critical issues affecting men of color while brainstorming effective solutions to counteract some of today's stresses.
M-CLIC - Conversation. Connection. Community. Culture.
For more information, visit our website at https://oami.umich.edu/m-clic/ or by email at MCLIC-info@umich.edu
Topic: “Prioritize You: Men's Mental Health Matters”
Featuring Special Guest: Waymond Hayes, Director, Early Learning/Youth Development, Focus: HOPE
Join us for an inspiring event as Waymond Hayes encourages men to take charge of their mental health. Together, we’ll shed light on the unique mental health challenges that men often encounter and explore effective coping strategies for overcoming them.
About M-CLIC: M-CLIC is a university-wide mentorship initiative open to all participants of any race or gender who seek to engage and foster a stronger sense of community and support for men of color at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
Event Highlight: M-CLIC's signature workshop, the "CLIC-N-CUTZ" Barbershop Series, a unique, informative, and safe-spaced barbershop experience. Beyond free haircuts and refreshments from local licensed barbers, participants sit back and engage in trending topics and critical issues affecting men of color while brainstorming effective solutions to counteract some of today's stresses.
M-CLIC - Conversation. Connection. Community. Culture.
For more information, visit our website at https://oami.umich.edu/m-clic/ or by email at MCLIC-info@umich.edu