Bios of Conference Speakers
Mike McIntyre
Mike McIntyre has represented North Carolina's Seventh Congressional
District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1997.
He is now serving in his 4th term.
A leadership survey by the Wilmington Star-News found that
Congressman McIntyre is the area's "most powerful and
effective leader." Not only was he ranked first among
government and political leaders, but he was also "first
among all leaders," which included those in positions
of business and civic leadership as well.
In Congress, Rep. McIntyre is a member of the House Agriculture
Committee and the House Armed Services Committee where he
pushes to promote and protect our farm families and is committed
to our nation’s servicemen and women, veterans, and
military retirees. Additionally, he has been a leader on law
enforcement issues, an avid defender of our senior citizens,
and a strong advocate for improved health care and education.
Representative McIntyre has taken a common-sense approach
to forging a bipartisan consensus on public policy and is
a member of the Blue Dog Coalition. From this vantage point,
he has played a key role in finding practical solutions to
complex problems. The Fayetteville Observer-Times has even
noted that Congressman McIntyre’s "stands have
earned him high marks from a wide spectrum of political interests."
And the Topsail Voice has declared, "His ability to work
with both the Republican and the Democratic leadership is
a major asset, and the value of that leverage cannot be denied.
Economic development has been at the forefront of Congressman
McIntyre's work. Recently Rep. McIntyre was named as the first
recipient ever of an international award in public policy
by the International Association of Personnel in Employment
Security for his efforts to produce job opportunities and
increase worker training. The National Association of Development
Organizations has also honored Representative McIntyre for
his leadership in regional economic development, and the Southern
Economic Development Council has chosen him four times for
its Legislative Honor Roll. In 2002 he also won the North
Carolina Employment Security Advancing Workforce Development
Award. He is the Chairman of the Business and Technology Task
Force for the Blue Dog Coalition. He is also Co-Chairman of
the Rural Caucus Task Force on Jobs and Economic Development.
An Assistant Whip on Capitol Hill, Congressman McIntyre also
serves on the Steering Committee of the Rural Health Care
Coalition and as Co-Chairman of the Congressional Task Force
on Responsible Fatherhood, and he was selected in his first
year in office as a Congressional delegate to the President’s
Summit for America’s Future. Congressman McIntyre received
the Distinguished Service to Agriculture Award from the Robeson
County Crop Promotion Association. In 2002, he was the only
Member of the House to be chosen for a Legislative Award in
recognition of his leadership and "ongoing commitment
to policies improving health care" by the National Rural
Health Association. A recipient of the Conservationist Award
by the N.C. Coastal Land Trust, Congressman McIntyre has also
been honored nationally by the American Coastal Coalition
for his work in protecting and preserving our beaches.
The National Guard Association has presented the congressman
the prestigious Charles Dick Medal of Merit for his outstanding
work on behalf of the National Guard and our national defense.
The Air Force Association and the Association of the U.S.
Army have both recognized his efforts on their behalf, and
Congressman McIntyre represents the House Armed Services Committee
on the U.S. Naval Academy's advisory board. He is also Co-Chairman
of the newly-organized Special Forces Caucus. Because of his
steadfast commitment to all branches of our military, The
Military Officers' Association of North Carolina has conferred
upon Congressman McIntyre Honorary Life Membership.
His accomplishments have been recognized by numerous organizations,
including the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National
Farmers Union, the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, the National Federation of Independent Business, the
American Federation of Teachers, the National Committee to
Preserve Social Security and Medicare and the U.S. Chamber
of Commerce.
Congressman McIntyre, whose roots in North Carolina are well-established,
was educated in the public schools of Lumberton and at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Recently he was named to the prestigious United States Commission
on Security and Cooperation with Europe. He is one of only
nine members of the U.S. House of Representatives to be chosen
for this commission which focuses on military security, as
well as economic and environmental cooperation, and promotes
democracy, religious freedom, and humanitarian concerns throughout
the world.
A Morehead Scholar, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa as a political
science major in 1978 and received his Juris Doctorate in
1981. His senior year of college the chancellor presented
him the Sullivan Award, for best exemplifying in his class
"unselfish interest in the welfare of his fellow man"
during his collegiate career.
The University of North Carolina at Wilmington recently conferred
an honorary Doctor of Laws degree upon Congressman McIntyre
for his meritorious service and distinction in public service
by improving the quality of life in southeastern North Carolina.
Active in community, church, civic, and professional activities,
Mike McIntyre has served as a leader in the Lumberton Area
Chamber of Commerce, coached three All-American Drug-Free
Sports Teams and has been active in Rotary Club, Boy Scouts,
and the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA). Additionally, Rep.
McIntyre has been a lay leader in the First Presbyterian Church
of Lumberton, including serving as an Elder, Deacon, and Sunday
School teacher, and Chairman of the Weekday School and Day
Care Committee.
In 1987, Representative McIntyre was chosen as one of the
state’s Five Outstanding Young North Carolinians of
the Year by the North Carolina Jaycees. As a strong advocate
of issues that impact the family, he was a charter member
of both the North Carolina Commission on Children & Youth
and the North Carolina Commission on the Family. Representative
McIntyre has worked tirelessly to improve education and has
been a volunteer in the schools for over 22 years, continuing
that commitment as he serves in Congress. In 1989 he earned
the Governor’s Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service
for his work with children and educators.
In addition to his Washington office, Rep. McIntyre maintains
three district offices in Fayetteville, Lumberton, and Wilmington.
Born on August 6, 1956, Mike lives in Lumberton with his wife,
Dee Strickland McIntyre, and their two sons, Joshua and Stephen,
both of whom have won scholarships to the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, where they are currently enrolled.
Joe R. Feagin
Joe R. Feagin (Ph.D., Harvard University) is the Ella C.
McFadden Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A & M University.
His primary research interests concern the development and
structure of racial/gender prejudice and discrimination and
a range of other social justice issues. Among his 46 books
are Social Problems: A Power-Conflict Perspective
(Prentice-Hall, 1997); Racist America (Routledge 2000); The
First R: How Children Learn Race and Racism, with D.
Van Ausdale (Rowman & Littlefield 2001); Racial and
Ethnic Relations, with C. Feagin (Seventh edition;
Prentice-Hall 2003); White Racism: the Basics, with
H. Vera and P. Batur (Second edition; Routledge 2001); The
Many Costs of Racism, with K. McKinney (Rowman &
Littlefield 2003); White Men on Race, with E. O'Brien
(Beacon 2003); and Black in Blue: African-American Police
Officers and Racism, with K. Bolton (Routledge 2004).
He is currently working on the sixth edition of the Social
Problems textbook and on another book dealing with how whites
act in private in regard to racial issues. His books have
won numerous national and professional association prizes;
his book, Ghetto Revolts (Macmillan 1973), was nominated for
a Pulitzer Prize. He is also author of more than 170 articles
on racial, gender, and other social-justice issues. He was
the 1999-2000 president of the American Sociological Association.
Lukata Mjumbe
Lukata Mjumbe serves as the District Policy Director for
Congressman Artur Davis of the Seventh Congressional District
of Alabama. Mjumbe is the former Director of the Rural Training
& Research Center of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives
/ Land Assistance Fund in Sumter County, Alabama. While there,
he developed a regional cooperative economic development technical
assistance program and rural demonstration models for limited
resource communities in 12 southern states. He is a seasoned
political advocate and community organizer with extensive
professional experience in public policy development in the
Black Belt south.
Additionally, Mjumbe has demonstrated community based and
regional leadership in the areas of labor organizing, environmental
justice, livable wage and welfare public policy as well as
in campaigns related to human rights, children and youth.
As the Policy Director for a member of Congress, he is responsible
for the development of policy initiatives that can ultimately
affect all of rural America. In 2003, Congressman Davis introduced
the Southern Empowerment & Economic Development (SEED)
Act. The bill in effect amends the legislation which created
the Delta Regional Authority (DRA) and initiates the Delta
Black Belt Regional Authority (DBBRA). The SEED Act expands
the coverage area for the Authority and includes the development
of a Constituency Representation Board (CRB) as well as a
substantial increase in sustained funding for community-based
development and regional strategic planning.
Mjumbe graduated summa cum laude as the top ranking political
science student at Morehouse College. He has written and lectured
extensively on strategies for comprehensive development in
the rural south. He is pursuing his post-graduate work in
Policy & Management Analysis at the University of Alabama
and in seminary at the Birmingham Theological Seminary. He
is a husband and proud father of five children.
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The conference is coordinated by Jobs for the Future Collaborative,
a public-private partnership in Robeson County that was organized by The Center For Community
Action in response to the massive loss of jobs in Robeson County, N.C.
It includes leaders in both the public and private sector and is committed to a pro-active and successful approach to sustainable development in rural Robeson County and public policies that support rural America.
For more information, contact:
The Center For Community Action
P.O. Box 723, Lumberton, N.C. 28359
(910) 739-7851
cca@carolina.net
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