Shelia Huggins Leads Workshop at 2023 Longleaf Film Festival
Back in downtown Raleigh for the Longleaf Film Festival.
Shelia Huggins led the workshop, Legal Insights for Filmmakers which covered four legal trends for 2023 that every filmmaker should know about.
From the website, “Longleaf Film Festival, an annual juried festival that highlights the stories that connect us all. We believe that making films is making history. Longleaf Film Festival is sponsored and administered by the North Carolina Museum of History.” The Longleaf 2023 was held held Friday, May 12, and Saturday, May 13.
Don’t miss the 2023 festival in May 2024.
Shelia A. Huggins Speaks at NCCU Law School Entertainment & Sports Symposium
On March 31, 2023, Shelia A. Huggins spoke at the 2023 Sports and Entertainment Law Society Symposium at North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina.
From the NCCU School of Law website: “North Carolina Central University School of Law was founded in 1939 to provide opportunities for African American students to become lawyers. Embracing our heritage, our mission is to provide a quality, personalized, practice-oriented, and affordable legal education to historically underrepresented students from diverse backgrounds to increase diversity in the legal profession. We empower our graduates to become highly competent and socially responsible lawyers and leaders committed to public service and to meeting the needs of under-served communities.”
The SELS Symposium’s purpose was to provide law students “with the opportunity to gain valuable experience in the areas of entertainment and sports, to promote communications among the various professional entertainment and sports organizations and club members, and to foster and create internships and employment opportunities for club members.”
Shelia A. Huggins Speaks at Women on the Rise
On March 3, 2023, Shelia A. Huggins was a speaker at the Women on the Rise leadership conference held at the Strickland Conference Center on the campus of Forsyth Community College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
The event included a keynote address; workshops on salary negotiations; using social media professionally; breaking the habits of burnout; redefining community building through womanhood, power, and leadership; the civic circle: a new model for community engagement; relational leadership: empowering change for good; and more.
Shelia Huggins’ topic was “Social Media: The Professional Advantage.” She discussed the advantages and disadvantages of using Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Etsy, and more. The discussions also included a look at the legal liability related to using different social media platforms. In addition to social media, participants also had an opportunity to discuss branding on social media and building a professional image that crosses over from social media and onto their personal and business websites and ecommerce sites.
