*Vera Jones, Women’s Basketball Analyst/Commentator (ESPN, NBC, Fox Sports), and actress/choreographer Raquel Belt (Love & Drugs) to host the 24th annual Los Angeles “Uplifting Minds II” Entertainment Conference. The ULMII Entertainment Conference is powered by Zoom, free access to the conference will be at www.UpliftingMinds2.com.
The Los Angeles ULMII offers a Professional Panel for a Q&A Session, a Professional Talent Showcase of artists sponsored by independent labels, management, or agencies, and a National Talent Competition where singers, songwriters, dancers, or actors compete for the 2023 ULMII Best Artist Award and over $19,000 valued in products, services, and cash.
Vera Jones holds a master’s in communications. She served as a coach for college basketball at the University of Dayton and Indiana University. Jones went on to make a 30-year career for herself in broadcasting communications as a Women’s Basketball Analyst and Reporter for various networks that included ESPN, Fox Sports, Madison Square Garden Network, NBC, and the Big Ten Network. As a veteran women’s sports commentator, she is still seen hosting sports shows. Signed to the Talent Concierge Artists Agency, Vera Jones can be found conducting motivational speeches and through her Perseverance Speaker’s Academy provides mediator and resolution training. She coaches individuals and groups through her Conflict and Communications program. Her speech “Trust Your Vision” has amassed 47 million views.
Raquel Belt is a trained psychologist, professional dancer choreographer, and actress (Love & Drugs). Signed with the Vanguard Affinity Group, you can find Belt busy with several acting roles and projects. Based in Texas Raquel also models. Her credits as an actress include stage plays and various film and television projects that include “Love and Drugs” (2018, 2020, 2023); The Red Room Horror (2023); Older Man, Younger Woman (2023), and Knee Deep (2023). Raquel Belt has an organization called The Chosen, a group of fellow artists (actors/actresses, film producers, directors) that mentor and speak on the business of entertainment.
The ULMII Entertainment Conference is known for its talent. Scouts from different areas of the entertainment industry attend the conference looking for talent. As a result, it has accumulated many success stories, such as Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Miguel was signed by a ULMII panelist at the Los Angeles conference; songwriters/producers The Featherstone’s original song performed at ULMII was heard by SisQo (Dru Hill) and placed on Dru Hill’s third album as the first single “I Should Be Your Boyfriend.” The single went platinum; Starz Network’s Naturi Naughton was scouted by Broadway at the Baltimore ULMII event and that lead to her joining the R&B group 3LW, and then starring in the drama “Power”, and Disney’s RoShon Fegan’s manager used the information learned at the Los Angeles ULMII conference to take Roshon to the next level which resulted in Roshon starring in two Disney series and then performing on ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars.”
To see if you qualify to compete in the next ULMII Entertainment Conference’s National Talent Competition log onto www.UpliftingMinds2.com or email [email protected]. To RSVP to the limited space Zoom conference visit www.EventBrite.com.
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