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Solomon Burnette

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Durham, North Carolina 27701

919-***-****/ad3iky@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

Community engagement specialist and multi-lingual professional with public/private sector experience and strong organizational skills.

Employment Experience Lumifont Scriptorium, Durham, N.C., 2019- present, Editor in Chief

• Choose aesthetics of publication

• Executive approval of final publication

• Heads Scriptorium editors, copyeditors, and writers Saint Augustine’s University, Office of the President, Raleigh, N.C., 2021- 2022, Special Programmer

• Optimally represent the president’s office in various media, engaging faculty, staff, community members, stake holders, and students, cultivating excellence on campus and beyond.

• Develop pedagogy and curriculum for enhanced student and staff outcomes.

• Facilitate inter institutional correspondence.

Law Offices of James F. Cyrus, IV, PLLC, Charlotte, NC 2013-present, Legal Consultant

• Research preceding cases, relevant statutes and legal documents and other writings pertaining to a client cases.

• Draft legal documents pertaining to client cases.

• Help in the preparation of legal arguments, opening statements, closing statements and court pleadings or motions.

Bull City Lawyer, Durham, Jan 2019-June 2019, Online Media Content Editor

• Capture video and photo media for editing into appropriate online content for Bull City Lawyer media channel.

• Translate media content into Arabic from English and subtitle videos for online ImmiGreat and Bull City Lawyer media channel.

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Office of the District Attorney, State of North Carolina, Durham, 2018-2019, Legal Assistant and Victims’ Service Counselor

• Prepare letters to inform victims of the status of their cases.

• Compile discovery packages, draft motions, subpoenas, and related documents for filing.

• Liaise between attorneys, victims, and service providers, ensuring appropriate handling of sensitive cases.

• Arrange for interpreters.

• Assist attorneys explaining court process and managing expectations during court proceedings.

• Maintain confidential contact and give updates to victims’ families in cases. Southern Coalition for Social Justice Durham, NC 2008-2009, Community Organizer

• Developed community needs assessments, positing ameliorative solutions to U.S. gang problems.

• Coordinated college to prison book donation project logistics with unit leaders and project sponsors.

• Created and compiled database of Non-Profit social justice networks and organizations in the southeast.

• Educated, trained, maintained order, developing team morale, fostering critical skills, working with diverse groups ranging from several staff and student volunteers in study and planning to scores of people in active protest and class action legal pursuit. Education

North Carolina Institute of Political Leadership (NCIOPL) Leadership Fellow 2012

Focus on Political Organization and Think Tank Formation North Carolina Central University Durham, NC 2005 - 2008 Bachelor of Arts Degree

Major: European History of Andalusian Governance

Focus: International Relations of Decolonial State Formation Yemen Language Center Sana’a, Yemen 2007

Certificate: Completion of Intensive Immersive Arabic Language Coursework and Study Duke University Durham, NC 2005-2008

Relevant Coursework: Arabic Language Study, Haitian Creole Language Study, Theories of Difference, International Comparative Studies (ICS), Modern and Post-Modern Geopolitics & Statecraft (Amer-African StateCraft) 3

Selected Bibliography/Invited Presentations

Aerolith & Black Box: A Talk about “A Book of Comets” (November 15, 2023, in Bostock Library sponsored by Duke Middle Eastern Studies and Duke Islamic Studies Departments) On Amer African Statecraft: Reparations & Gang Amelioration via Engagement with the U.N. (November 8, 2023, sponsored by Duke Middle Eastern Studies and Duke Islamic Studies) Black Muslims and the Angels of Afrofuturism

Coauthored with Dr. Ellen McLarney, DUMESC under pen name Solayman Idris Published by The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research; June 2023 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00064246.2023.2177948 Fly or Dive: Getting Back in Academic Gear, Post Covid, September 2022, a three-part workshop sharing writing and study techniques to ensure student success after dealing with the trauma and drama of quarantine, sponsored by North Carolina Central University’s College of Health and Sciences.

Dusk Orientalis : Ex Chrysalis

Published by Lumifont Scriptorium, July 2020 under pen name Solayman Idris Star Logic (a collection of poiesis)

Published by Lumifont Scriptorium, June 2020 under pen name, Solayman Idris. The Sunrise in the West: on Amer-African Statecraft Published by Lumifont Scriptorium, November 2019, under pen name, Solayman Idris Cartels, Terrorists, Histories, Refugees, and Securities Published by the Clarion Content, February 2017

http://clarioncontentmedia.com/2017/02/cartels-terrorists-histories-refugees-and-security/ Yokel Critiques of Interstate Violence and Resistance Published by The Clarion Content, August 2017

http://clarioncontentmedia.com/2017/08/yokel-critiques-of-interstate-racial-violence-and-resistance/ Black Power Takeaways from the Shark Tank Presidency Published by the Clarion Content, November 2016

http://clarioncontentmedia.com/2016/11/ black-power-takeaways-from-the-shark-tank-presidency/ Police Shootings: Smoke and Mirrors?

Published by The Clarion Content, November 2015

http://clarioncontentmedia.com/2016/11/police-shootings-smoke-mirrors/ 4

On the Black Jac’ Military Cult: Cosmology, Metaphysics, and The Feminine Divine in Haytian Constitutionalism (97th Annual ASALH Convention themed, “Black Women in American Culture and History”, Pittsburgh, PA, September 26 - 30, 2012) Dubois, Reconstruction, and the KKK: a Luminary Engagement with Shadow Organization

(96th Annual ASALH Convention, themed, “African Americans and the Civil War”, Richmond V.A., October 5 - 9, 2011)

Caribbean Slave Revolts: Islamic Insurgencies Unmasqued?.. (“African Slavery in the Americas from 16th Century to 19th Century: The Legacy” colloquium in Forte de France, The Dodine Association, Forte De France, Martinique, April 2011) L’Immortal Cheikh Anta Diop: a Contemporary Critique of Blacksthetics in Light of a Luminary Scholar (DOPE Conference, themed, “Liberating the Arts and Sciences: The Black Whole Defined”, N.C. A&T, Greensboro, N.C., March 2010) Quranic Poetics of Black Republicans: Afro-Arabic Sources of Haytian Constitutionalism

(Third Annual African Diaspora Studies Symposium, themed, “Conspicuously Unseen: Invisibility and Denial in Diasporic Communities”, Durham, N.C., March 2011) Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Possibilities of Gang Amelioration (DOPE Conference, N.C. A&T, March 2010)

A Call for Gang Amelioration: Speculation and Operation (Rights of Passage Program, Hayti Heritage Center, Durham, N.C., August 2008)

Slave Revolts, the War on Terror, and the Prison Industrial Nexus (Lyceum Lecture Series, NCCU, Durham, N.C., February 2008)

A Political Analysis of Gangs: Potentialities, Subversions, Subornments (Presented to panel of Community Artist, Activist, and Academics as part of a Team Service Project with Public Allies North Carolina, Durham, N.C., January 2009)

February 2012 Co Organizer/Facilitator of symposium entitled, Gangs & Faith, A Dialogue on Driver Street: Faith Community Responses to Gang Violence, sponsored by City of Durham Parks and Recreation, Religious Coalition for a Non-Violent Durham, and the Durham County Gang Reduction Taskforce

March 2010 Moderator, Plenary Session, “Hayti to Haiti: Then and Now” for the 2010 African Diaspora Studies Symposium: Uncovering Lost Perspectives: History and Representation in the Diaspora, sponsored by the North Carolina Central University History Department 5

February 2008 Invited Speaker giving talk entitled “Slave Revolts, The War on Terror, and the Prison Industrial Nexus” as solicited for North Carolina Central University’s annual Black History Month Lyceum Lecture Series, sponsored by the NCCU History Department September 2008 Guest Lecturer presenting “Caribbean Slave revolts: Islamic Insurgencies Unmasqued” at the Masking and Unmasking Interdisciplinary Conference sponsored by the Department of Romance Studies Duke University

February 2008, Moderator and Facilitator for Panel entitled “Enemy Populations and National Security” and Workshop on “Literacy and Intellectual Culture in U.S. Prisons” at the States of Captivity: Incarceration, Rendition, and Detention Symposium, sponsored by the Duke University Department of Cultural Anthropology

January 2008, Organizer and Moderator of series of talks officially dubbed “Politics and Politricks: The Role of African Americans in Domestic and Foreign Policy”, sponsored by the North Carolina Central University Office of International Affairs June 2007 Guest Lecturer and Panelist delivering a talk entitled “Islam in America, Stories and Histories” with Dr. Elliot Bazzano at the Yemeni Language Center/ Yemeni College of Middle Eastern Studies in Sana’a, Yemen.

July 2007 Guest Lecturer delivering a talk entitled “American Islam: Ontology, Slavery, Immigration, Prison, and Hip Hop” at the Yemeni Center for Health and Culture, aired live on Al Jazeera in Sana’a, Yemen.

August 2007 Guest Lecturer engaging “Islamic Influence on American Constitutionalism” at the Yemeni American Language Institute, sponsored by the United States Department of State / U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen

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