We’re still missing #ESSENCEFest! A few more of our favorite moments from our time this year 📸
🎥 eHBCU x #ESSENCEFest 2026 🎥
From the timely @globalblackeconomicforum panel on career reinvention, to moments at our eHBCU booth with the ESSENCE Fest community, we left inspired and energized.
Thank you to everyone who connected with us and shared in this moment. 🙏🏾
📸 A few shots from the Global Black Economic Forum’s #ESSENCEFest panel on career reinvention, featuring Southern University & A&M College Chancellor John K. Pierre alongside Ryan Smith, Mele Miller, and Aaliyah Haqq, Chief Operating Officer of GBEF’s Academy for Advancing Excellence.
Career transitions often arrive before people feel fully prepared. This conversation explored a different mindset: building the habits, networks, skills, and self-awareness now so that when change comes, learners are already positioned to move forward.
That’s where eHBCU can help. Through flexible online degree programs and certificates, eHBCU helps learners explore new interests, build in-demand skills, and access the excellence of HBCUs in a way that fits their lives.
ESSENCE Fest is officially underway, and eHBCU is here in New Orleans!
Stop by the eHBCU booth to meet our team, learn more about our flexible online programs, grab some merch, and take a professional headshot. We’re in the Great Hall of the Convention Center near the Global Black Economic Forum stage.
We’re excited to connect with learners, alumni, families, and HBCU supporters all weekend long!
#ESSENCEFest
This Sunday at #ESSENCEFest, don’t miss the Global Black Economic Forum panel on career reinvention, featuring @southernu_br Chancellor John K. Pierre!
🗓️ Sunday, July 5
🕕 11:50am
📍 Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
We’re heading back to #ESSENCEFest this week!
Join us in New Orleans to connect with our team, learn more about our flexible online degree and certificate programs, and explore how we’re expanding access to the HBCU experience.
If you’ll be there, visit the eHBCU booth in the Great Hall at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center — Booth #1754 — to talk one-on-one with admissions and team members, grab eHBCU merch, and take professional headshots.
And don’t miss the @globalblackeconomicforum panel on career reinvention featuring @southernu_br Chancellor John K. Pierre on Sunday!
We’ll see you there.
Weekend reminder:
You are qualified.
You are capable.
You belong in every room you enter.
And if there’s a skill gap standing between you and your next opportunity, eHBCU is here to help you close it.
Save this. Share it with someone who needs it. 🙏🏾
One year ago, we launched eHBCU with a bold vision: to expand access to the HBCU experience while honoring the culture, excellence, and legacy that make HBCUs so powerful.
To our founding institutions, partners, and all of our supporters: Thank you for helping us build this first year of eHBCU. And we’re just getting started.
Discover your path at eHBCU.edu.
