Photo by Laura Nwogu/The Atlanta VoiceSpelman College ushered in the start of its homecoming with its annual convocation at Sisters Chapel on Thursday. Alumni, faculty, and students decked in blue and white packed the church’s pews to kick off a weekend of events that will end with its joint SpelHouse tailgate. Moraima “Mo” Ivory, attorney and director of Georgia State University’s Entertainment, Sports & Media Law Initiative, was the keynote speaker and Spelman senior Destiny Blash moderated the chat. Ivory, who is a Spelman alumna, discussed her journey from entertainment lawyer to V-103 radio host to being a guest correspondent on networks such as CNN and MSNBC. Outside of her success in media and entertainment law, Ivory has aided and worked on political campaigns for Stacey Abrams and former U.S. president Barack Obama and is also running for election to the Fulton County Board of Commissioners to represent District 4 in Georgia. “You can easily maneuver through all these different things and end up in different industries by having a very strong skill set in the things that you do and being reliable, being somebody that people can count on to show up, being presentable — like all the things that people want to see when they want to hire you to do something,” Ivory said.Amid the excitement surrounding homecoming, the main goal of the convocation was to highlight students and encourage them in their collegiate journeys. In the crowd sat the first cohort of the Morgan Stanley HBCU Scholars Program which provides full scholarships for HBCU students at Howard University, Morehouse College and Spelman College.The one thing Ivory wanted to leave students with is not to put too much pressure on what the future holds for them.“You’re already here, so you’ve already risen to a certain level being here. But I also want to tell you to give yourself grace and to enjoy this experience and not go through it completely stressed out about what you’re not doing, or what you’re not accomplishing, or what somebody “You’re already here, so you’ve already risen to a certain level being here. But I also want to tell you to give yourself grace and to enjoy this experience and not go through it completely stressed out about what you’re not doing or what you’re not accomplishing, or what somebody else in your dorm is getting, or how you’re not getting that internship. Everything that is meant for you will happen.”The post Spelman College hosts Homecoming Convocation with Alumna Mo Ivory as Keynote Speaker appeared first on The Atlanta Voice.