Professor Angela Mae Kupenda made a presentation as an invited participant for the Women of Color Invited Caucus of the 31st Annual Southeastern Women's Studies Association Meeting at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, April 3 - 5, 2008. Her presentation was on the power of women as mothers and constitutional rights as teachers to promote quality.

Kupenda also served as a reviewer of a junior scholar's work at the Southeast/Southwest Law Faculty of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, hosted by North Carolina Central University School of Law, April 10 - 13, 2008.
Additionally, Prof. Kupenda has had several works recently accepted for publication.

Her essay, How Diversity Benefits Whites, has been accepted for publication in a forthcoming issue of the Seattle Journal for Social Justice symposium issue, responding to the recent United States Supreme Court school desegregation case, PICS v. Seattle School District No. I, 127 S.Ct. 2738 (2007).

She is writing an invited article, too, for the Thurgood Marshall School of Law, forthcoming Law Review's symposium issue also examining the PICS case. Her article is presently titled, It's Not Over Until Its Over: On integration, by reversing white flight, a valid strategy even after PICS.

Kupenda will also have several entries printed in the forthcoming, Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States. Her entries address Speech in Public Schools, Paul v. Davis, NAACP v. Claiborne County Hardware, and Woods v. Strickland. These all relate to Civil Rights, 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, issues.
*Her book review, on Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell, discussing how fictional literature can facilitate classroom discussion on sensitive political and racial issues, will appear in a forthcoming issue of the online Law and Politics Book Review, published by the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association.

And, her essay, Loss of Innocence, will appear in a forthcoming volume presently titled, Law Touches the Hearts of Children: A Generation Remembers Brown v. Bd. of Education, edited by Law Professors R. Bonnie and M. Robinson, to be published by the Vanderbilt University Press.