Please join the UVA Division for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Friday, April 2, 12:00-1:00pm for a session of the Racial Equity Speaker Series featuring Ijeoma Oluo.

This event will be co-sponsored by the Department of Media Studies and moderated by Shilpa Dave, Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor of Media Studies.

Ijeoma Oluo is a Seattle-based Writer, Speaker and Internet Yeller. Her work on social issues such as race and gender has been published in The Guardian, The Stranger, Washington Post, ELLE magazine, NBC News and more. Her NYT bestselling first book, “So You Want to Talk About Race”, was released January 2018 with Seal Press. Ijeoma was named one of the Most Influential People in Seattle by Seattle Magazine, one of the 50 Most Influential Women in Seattle by Seattle Met, one of The Root's 100 Most Influential Americans in 2017 & 2018, and is the recipient of the Feminist Humanist Award 2018 by the American Humanist Association, the Media Justice Award by the Gender Justice League, and the 2018 Aubrey Davis Visionary Leadership Award by the Equal Opportunity Institute.

Event Partners:
100 Black Men of Central Virginia | 100 Black Women of the Charlottesville Metropolitan Area | Black Faculty & Staff Employee Resource Group | Black Student Alliance | Center for Teaching Excellence | Charlottesville City Schools | Darden School of Business | Disability Advocacy and Action Committee | Diversity Council | McIntire Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion | LGBTQ Committee | Multicultural Student Services | Office of African American Affairs | School of Education and Human Development | School of Nursing | UVA Library | UVA School of Law | UVA Wise Office of Compliance and Inclusion | Women's Center | Women's Leadership Council