Boys II Men Brunch - Celebrating Hartford's Young Men - Hartford (CT)

First Annual Boys II Men event celebrating young men from the greater Hartford community through scholarships and awards. This event is hosted by the Hartford (CT) Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated. Our keynote speaker is Rohan Freeman.

About Our Keynote Speaker

Rohan A. Freeman, PE, LS is Founder and President of Freeman Companies, LLC, an award-winning, multi-disciplinary site development, engineering design, and construction services enterprise. Mr. Freeman, an accomplished mountaineer, founded the company in 2009 shortly after summiting Mount Everest with a promise to clients to “Elevate Your Expectations”. This promise and Mr. Freeman’s career-long inquiry of economic development and urban design have led to the firm’s involvement in several large-scale, transformative public projects. Mr. Freeman, who grew up in Jamaica, is the first African American to climb the Seven Summits. Mr. Freeman is a popular motivational speaker, and member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, U.S. Green Building Council, Construction Institute, Greater New England Minority Supplier Diversity Council and board member of several regional children’s charities including Camp Courant and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford. In 2014 he established the University of Connecticut School of Engineering “Freeman Companies BRIDGE Endowed Engineering Scholarship” to support minority students with an interest in civil engineering who have overcome obstacles such as socioeconomic or educational disadvantage. He is included among a select group of alumni to be nominated to the UCONN School of Engineering’s Academy of Distinguished Engineers.