https://www.pandelectures.com/community-reads-gallery daily 0.75 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701737983630-PRIQTPUWQ8RWQ1IZQJQH/Storey%2BHeadshot%2B1+%281%29.png First Year, Community, and One Reads - Omkari L. Williams Omkari L. Williams is the Gold Nautilus award-winning and bestselling author of Micro Activism: How You Can Make a Difference in the World (Without A Bullhorn). Her book helps readers identify their “activist archetype" and map a personal action plan for engaging in small, change-making activities with potentially big impacts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701737983630-PRIQTPUWQ8RWQ1IZQJQH/Storey%2BHeadshot%2B1+%281%29.png First Year, Community, and One Reads - Omkari L. Williams Omkari L. Williams is the Gold Nautilus award-winning and bestselling author of Micro Activism: How You Can Make a Difference in the World (Without A Bullhorn). Her book helps readers identify their “activist archetype" and map a personal action plan for engaging in small, change-making activities with potentially big impacts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544392223288-9KVXURTTLN9GKWK61XCO/Engle+1+-+Debra+Engle.jpeg First Year, Community, and One Reads - Debra Landwehr Engle Debra is a bestselling author, spiritual teacher, and communications coach who speaks widely on subjects of spirituality. She is the author of Grace from the Garden, The Only Little Prayer You Need, and Let Your Spirit Guides Speak. Her upcoming books are Be the Light That You Are and Twenty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700523795374-KJUBEPXOX27ROLINJXNL/Sequoia_Nagamatsu.jpeg First Year, Community, and One Reads - Sequoia Nagamatsu Sequoia Nagamatsu is the author of the National Bestselling novel, How High We Go in the Dark (2022) as well as the story collection, Where We Go When All Is Gone. His novel was a finalist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize and shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize. It was also a Roxanne Gay Audacious Book Club Selection and 2022 Indie Next Pick. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701737528043-PBOA2URLI0U1OKQ0IZVC/Patricia%2BEngel.jpeg First Year, Community, and One Reads - Patricia Engel "And maybe there is no nation or citizenry; they're just territories mapped in place of family, in place of love, the infinite country." Patricia Engel is the author of, most recently, the story collection The Faraway World. Her novel Infinite Country was an instant New York Times Bestseller and a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Big Read. Infinite Country is the winner of the New American Voices Award, was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/b23729fb-af8d-4d99-863d-9fc1aa8812bc/GSL+headshot+vert.jpg First Year, Community, and One Reads - Annabelle Tometich Annabelle Tometich went from medical-school reject to line cook to journalist to author. She spent 18 years as a food writer and restaurant critic for The News-Press in her hometown of Fort Myers, Florida. Her first book, The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony (2024, Little Brown) explores her relationship with her Filipina mother and was called “sweet, sharp” by The New York Times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1743194358622-AEDVTBPUCKE16T4RL6ZN/image-asset.jpeg First Year, Community, and One Reads - Gloria Muñoz Gloria is a Colombian American writer, translator, and advocate for multilingual literacy. She is the author of This is the Year, Your Biome Has Found You, and Danzirly, which won the Ambroggio Prize and the Gold Medal Florida Book Award. Her other honors include an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, Hedgebrook Fellowship, being a Macondista, Highlights Foundation’s Diverse Verse Fellowship, Lumina’s Multilingual Writing Award, and a part of Las Musas. She is proud to be St. Pete's first Latina poet laureate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1745267109381-G7PF8OESMWUSXOI95KEX/image001+%282%29.jpeg First Year, Community, and One Reads - Tony Keith Jr. Anthony R. Keith, Jr., Ph.D. (Tony) is a Black, gay spoken word artist, poet, and Hip-Hop educator. His debut, How the Boogeyman Became a Poet, is a powerful YA memoir in verse, tracing his journey from being a closeted gay Black teen battling poverty, racism, and homophobia to becoming an openly gay first-generation college student who finds freedom in poetry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701738085339-LVXN9A23RNW7KQY89W7P/Tiffany%2BJewell.jpeg First Year, Community, and One Reads - Tiffany Jewell Tiffany Jewell is a Black biracial writer, twin sister, first generation American, cisgender mama, anti-bias antiracist (ABAR) educator, and consultant. She is the author of the #1 New York Times and #1 Indie Bestseller, This Book Is Anti-Racist, a book for young folks and everyone to wake up, take action, and do the work of becoming antiracist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701737633924-BKJQDL7DUNQLZEZDYCFA/Kai%2BHarris+%281%29.jpeg First Year, Community, and One Reads - Kai Harris Kai Harris is the author of the acclaimed debut novel What the Fireflies Knew (Tiny Reparations, 2022), a Silicon Valley 2023 Read, A Marie Claire Book Club pick as well as being an NAACP Image Award nominee and longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. She is a writer and educator from Detroit, Michigan, who uses her voice to uplift the Black community through realistic fiction centered on the Black experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701737693019-GUAPY966CVKIDLXYMUF3/IMG_8043%2B-%2BLadee%2BHubbard.jpeg First Year, Community, and One Reads - Ladee Hubbard Ladee is an award-winning author and scholar. Her critically-acclaimed novel, The Talented Ribkins, was awarded the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for the Debut Novel and the 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, among many other honors, and garnered her an appearance on Seth Meyers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1721404481419-A3YGK7SDZAR79A6TCFFO/Lee+Hawkins+Headshot.jpg First Year, Community, and One Reads - Lee Hawkins "Healing doesn't begin by hiding the truth. It begins when we’re brave enough to look at our history, speak it out loud, and use it to build something better—for our country and for our bloodlines." Lee Hawkins is an American investigative journalist and author who was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2022. His most recent work, I Am Nobody’s Slave: How Uncovering My Family’s History Set Me Free, is an introspective journey into his family history, tracing its roots to pre-Revolutionary America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1743193442122-RWP2ZM04RN0M8EAW0S6W/BRIDGETT%2BDAVIS-2.jpeg First Year, Community, and One Reads - Bridgett Davis Bridgett M. Davis is the author of the memoir, The World According To Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life In The Detroit Numbers, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a 2020 Michigan Notable Book, and named a Best Book of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews, BuzzFeed, NBC News and Parade Magazine. She is writing the screenplay for the film adaptation of the book, which will be produced by Plan B Entertainment and released by Searchlight Pictures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700945128482-24QPKXMQA66ZF76TVTVY/abulhawa.jpeg First Year, Community, and One Reads - Susan Abulhawa Susan Abulhawa speaks widely on the subjects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the power of storytelling, particularly for marginalized communities. She is one of the most widely-read Arab authors. Her debut novel, Mornings in Jenin, is a multigenerational family epic spanning five countries and more than sixty years. Susan is also the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Blue Between Sky and Water and Against the Loveless World. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701738139363-RTG55IWFSS6JLSJOD8W6/Layla%2BSaad%2BAuthor%2BPhoto+%281%29.jpeg First Year, Community, and One Reads - Layla F. Saad Layla F. Saad is a New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of Me and White Supremacy, anti-racism educator, international speaker, and podcast host on the topics of race, identity, leadership, personal transformation and social change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1576007998014-IDBKFO6KPB9E6UZ2FRCS/SAM+QUINONES.jpeg First Year, Community, and One Reads - Sam Quinones Acclaimed journalist and author Sam Quinones is a trailblazer in the conversation about the American addiction crisis. In his talks and keynote speeches, he introduces both scientific research and heart-wrenching, personal accounts to present the realities of the “silent epidemic”, as well as the ways we can help affected communities. He is the author of Dreamland and The Least of Us. https://www.pandelectures.com/human-centered-history-gallery daily 0.75 2026-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1722263651892-1SM4MVLZLUJVFWKIB5II/Schuettpelz_headshot_Whiting.jpg Human-Centered History - Carrie Schuettpelz Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina and an Associate Professor of Practice in the School of Planning and Public Affairs (SPPA) at the University of Iowa. She also runs the Native Policy Lab. She is the winner of a Whiting Nonfiction Grant for her debut nonfiction book, The Indian Card, forthcoming from Flatiron in October 2024. Her policy areas of expertise include Native policy, social policy, homelessness, and affordable housing. Her research focuses primarily on Native identity, particularly from a public policy lens. In addition to her writing, she is currently working on a project to return student records to survivors of Indian Boarding Schools. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1715737789936-A8OCHIDCSFI5GPMYI28F/Nick-Buccola-760.jpeg Human-Centered History - Nicholas Buccola Nicholas Buccola is a writer, lecturer, and teacher who specializes in the area of American political thought. He is the author of dynamic biographies exploring the history of race in American politics, including One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle over an American Ideal (Princeton University Press, October 2025) and The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America (Princeton University, 2019). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1722263651892-1SM4MVLZLUJVFWKIB5II/Schuettpelz_headshot_Whiting.jpg Human-Centered History - Carrie Schuettpelz Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina and an Associate Professor of Practice in the School of Planning and Public Affairs (SPPA) at the University of Iowa. She also runs the Native Policy Lab. She is the winner of a Whiting Nonfiction Grant for her debut nonfiction book, The Indian Card, forthcoming from Flatiron in October 2024. Her policy areas of expertise include Native policy, social policy, homelessness, and affordable housing. Her research focuses primarily on Native identity, particularly from a public policy lens. In addition to her writing, she is currently working on a project to return student records to survivors of Indian Boarding Schools. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1565630378865-M5I5IWPN7JM6HVHJPKWE/unnamed+%281%29.jpg Human-Centered History - Doug Boin Doug is a writer, archeologist, and historian who regularly speaks at national and international conferences on erased histories, how to recover them, and why they matter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544391262091-MMDBY6DUP5N77O6P6SWZ/Asale+author+portraits_social_24.jpg Human-Centered History - Asale Angel-Ajani Asale is the Director of Women’s and Gender Studies and a professor at City University of New York, City College who brings a distinctive approach to race and identity. She lectures around the country on topics ranging from mass incarceration to social justice responses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/8c66bcbb-9c2e-4bfb-a361-8ae6170f15c2/Brando.png Human-Centered History - Brando Simeo Starkey Brando Simeo Starkey is a writer and scholar. A graduate of Harvard Law School and a member of the New York Bar, he taught law at Villanova Law School and wrote for several years for ESPN’s The Undefeated (now Andscape). Born and raised in Cincinnati, he lives in Southern California with his wife and two sons. He has launched a newsletter, The Braveverse, about law, politics, and freedom from caste, at the TheBraveverse.com and a YouTube channel covering the same themes at https://www.youtube.com/@TheBraveverse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544391266973-OCFUUD2LP5EB7MN3GELO/Wendy+PerlmanJPG.JPG Human-Centered History - Wendy Pearlman Wendy is a scholar of Middle East politics and author of the critically-acclaimed We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria, a mosaic of first-hand Syrian testimonials that chronicles the Syrian uprising, war and refugee crisis. Wendy lectures around the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701732579010-Q67SKN0F367DLS9GE8E8/Raquel_Cepeda_1.jpeg Human-Centered History - Raquel Cepada Born in Harlem to Dominican parents, Raquel is an award-winning journalist, cultural activist, podcaster, and documentary filmmaker who travels widely to speak to diverse audiences about Latina identity, social justice, gentrification and inequality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1559245716451-JQLEIBCJTJM5G92L469Z/Akemi%2BJohnson%2B%281%29.jpg Human-Centered History - Akemi Johnson Author of Night in the American Village, Akemi strives to advance racial equity, social justice, and human rights in her writing and work. She is an educator at the Fred T. Korematsu Institute, where she teaches the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans and promotes the importance of remembering this history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701732668594-E562N4ZJBI5RQXT2972H/Sherine%2BHamdy.jpeg Human-Centered History - Sherine Hamdy An anthropologist and graphic novelist, Sherine speaks nationally and internationally on the role of comics as a teaching tool and on social justice and representation in comics. In addition to her acclaimed academic work, she is the co-author of the graphic novel Lissa and author of the forthcoming YA graphic novel Jabs, the story of a Muslim-American girl’s coming-of-age. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1718146054556-Z2KMK2CDV9GPGGHC7SXX/orange%2Bwall.jpg Human-Centered History - Andrea Freeman Andrea Freeman is an author, law professor, and Fulbright scholar. She is a national and international expert on the intersections of race and food policy, health, and consumer credit. Her pioneering theory of food oppression reveals how food law and policy, influenced by corporate interests, leads to race and gender health disparities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1581708658855-RCZAF7DIYEUJ4QSS77GJ/1-oreskes-claudio-cambon.jpg Human-Centered History - Naomi Oreskes A world-renowned geologist, historian and public speaker, Naomi is a leading voice on the role of science in society and the reality of anthropogenic climate change. She is the co-author of the internationally bestselling Merchants of Doubt, as well as a professor of the History of Science and an affiliated professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701732726227-VSIXG8PA7AT1WXVN2I6N/moezzi-2.jpeg Human-Centered History - Melody Moezzi Melody speaks widely on issues of mental health, Iran, feminism, and Islam in America. Her books include the critically acclaimed memoir, Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life and War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims, which earned her a Georgia Author of the Year Award and a Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Honorable Mention. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701732987660-OAYSTBT0SE6VLNUPOPBA/madison-smartt-bell_crop.jpeg Human-Centered History - Madison Smartt Bell Madison Smartt Bell is the critically acclaimed author of several novels and two short story collections. In a trilogy about the Haitian Revolution, the first novel All Souls’ Rising was a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award and for the 1996 PEN/Faulkner Award. https://www.pandelectures.com/gender-sexuality-gallery daily 0.75 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1626791119596-ZU2TIDC59A04O7UHQD07/Susan+Abulhawa.JPG Gender & Sexuality Gallery - Susan Abulhawa Author of the internationally best-selling Mornings in Jenin (sold in 28 countries), Susan is one of the most widely-read Arab authors of all time. She is also frequently asked to speak on the subjects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the power of storytelling for marginalized communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1626791119596-ZU2TIDC59A04O7UHQD07/Susan+Abulhawa.JPG Gender & Sexuality Gallery - Susan Abulhawa Author of the internationally best-selling Mornings in Jenin (sold in 28 countries), Susan is one of the most widely-read Arab authors of all time. She is also frequently asked to speak on the subjects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the power of storytelling for marginalized communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1708723374924-UTEO7YDQ418HEMJ0VOCK/FaylitaHicksPhotobyChristopherCardoza.jpeg Gender & Sexuality Gallery - Faylita Hicks Faylita Hicks (she/they) is a queer Afro-Latinx writer, spoken word artist, and cultural strategist. With an appreciation for powerful narratives that lead to cultural shifts and community safety, Hicks works with justice-focused nonprofits, arts and literary organizations, and performance venues throughout the US to actively engage in anti-carceral liberation efforts through dynamic storytelling. An award-winning writer, performance artist, editor, and consultant with over twenty years of experience in event production, grant writing, publishing, PR, and nonprofit strategy, Hicks is also the author of the critically-acclaimed debut poetry collection HoodWitch (Acre Books, 2019), a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry, the 2019 Julie Suk Award, and the 2019 Balcones Poetry Prize. Currently, they are working on a second poetry collection, A Map of My Want (Haymarket Books, July 2024). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701736168800-H8YV1UVH0YMXESLMD8A2/HafizahGeter110921_048BeowulfSheehan_ecopy%2B%281%29.jpeg Gender & Sexuality Gallery - Hafizah Augustus Geter Hafizah Augustus Geter is a Nigerian-American poet, writer, and literary agent born in Zaria, Nigeria, and raised in Akron, Ohio, and Columbia, South Carolina. Her debut memoir, The Black Period: On Personhood, Race & Origin, won the 2023 PEN Open Book Award and the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1745267511783-JXSYHMKRRFO2GXGW3KJ5/image001%2B%25281%2529.jpg Gender & Sexuality Gallery - Tony Keith Jr. Tony is a Black, gay spoken word artist, poet, and Hip-Hop educator. His debut, How the Boogeyman Became a Poet, is a powerful YA memoir in verse, tracing his journey from being a closeted gay Black teen battling poverty, racism, and homophobia to becoming an openly gay first-generation college student who finds freedom in poetry. "What a life-affirming masterpiece." - Jason Reynolds, #1 New York Times bestselling author https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1715715838952-4QZ7HYU8CS72PNN0VLRP/Riverhead%2BPublicity%2BShot%2B2021.jpeg Gender & Sexuality Gallery - Kristen Arnett “I wish there were more opportunities to read queer characters outside the context of hardship or trauma around their queerness. I’m interested in the more day-to-day movement of queerness: ‘I happen to be queer, and I’m doing this.’” Florida-native and novelist Kristen Arnett is the author of With Teeth: A Novel and the NYT bestselling debut novel Mostly Dead Things which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction. Her latest novel Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One (Riverhead Books, 2025) explores the themes of humor and community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701736680960-CMTAZ9WBHBX1C1NFTDJH/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-09-29%2Bat%2B10.15.30%2BAM+%281%29.png Gender & Sexuality Gallery - Britt Hawthorne Britt Hawthorne (they/she) is the author of the highly-anticipated, New York Times Bestseller, Raising Antiracist Children: A Practical Parenting Guide (Simon Element, 2022). Britt is also an antiracist educator, teacher, speaker, visionary, and advocate committed to raising a generation of antiracist children by centering families of the global majority and fostering equitable learning environments for students and children of all ages and backgrounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701736500745-UN57Y9YDQ9BPMFQZ4BYV/Storey%2BHeadshot%2B1.png Gender & Sexuality Gallery - Omkari L. Williams Omkari L. Williams has worked as an actor, political consultant, and coach. Though she has an affinity for supporting activists who identify as introverted or highly sensitive, as she does, she welcomes all people into the world of micro activism, a sustainable path to changemaking. As a queer Black woman, she shares her own story of challenging injustice to empower others in making a difference in their communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701737026634-GH2D7V7WGPQGZDUH27KG/Tiffany%2BJewell.jpeg Gender & Sexuality Gallery - Tiffany Jewell Tiffany Jewell is a Black biracial writer, twin sister, first generation American, cisgender mama, anti-bias antiracist (ABAR) educator, and consultant. She is the author of the #1 New York Times and #1 Indie Bestseller, This Book Is Anti-Racist, a book for young folks and everyone to wake up, take action, and do the work of becoming antiracist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1717533915501-M1HFOXXFCS0141E2ZFSA/Mj4d_d5s_400x400.jpeg Gender & Sexuality Gallery - Doug Boin Douglas Boin is a historian, teacher, and author. His books include Coming Out Christian in the Roman World, A Social and Cultural History of Late Antiquity, and Alaric the Goth: An Outsider’s History of the Fall of Rome, which was named by The Economist one of the best books of 2020. In his talks, Doug focuses on how growing up gay in a Catholic family shaped his work as a writer and as a historian. https://www.pandelectures.com/black-history-culture-gallery daily 0.75 2025-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/ea11bd79-9ea7-4d8d-a517-c4b8dd4e233e/Screenshot+2024-11-25+at+2.49.07%E2%80%AFPM.png Black Culture and History - Trevor Baldwin Trevor Baldwin was born, raised and currently lives in New York City. His father Wilmer, brother of James Baldwin, taught guitar at Harlem School of the Arts and his mother Helen was a CUNY professor and the Executive Director of Minisink Townhouse and Camp. Surrounded by arts and infused with education as a cultural foundation, Trevor is an offspring of Harlem's rich heritage. A graduate of The Fieldston School, Morehouse College and New York Film Academy, Trevor works in public relations. He is also a screenwriter and producer with multiple projects in development. As a writer, he’s contributed to various online publications including Gawker, Blavity, VIBE, Global Grind, NewsOne and the Huffington Post. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544390640065-P052SKCLIRBB6AJ4B4DQ/Rebecca+Hall.jpg Black Culture and History - Rebecca Hall Rebecca is a scholar, activist and educator who writes and speaks on the history of race, gender, law and resistance. She is the author of the highly-anticipated forthcoming graphic novel Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts (37ink, 2020), which focuses on slave revolts in the Middle Passage and in New York City and her own quest to uncover this unwritten history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/ea11bd79-9ea7-4d8d-a517-c4b8dd4e233e/Screenshot+2024-11-25+at+2.49.07%E2%80%AFPM.png Black Culture and History - Trevor Baldwin Trevor Baldwin was born, raised and currently lives in New York City. His father Wilmer, brother of James Baldwin, taught guitar at Harlem School of the Arts and his mother Helen was a CUNY professor and the Executive Director of Minisink Townhouse and Camp. Surrounded by arts and infused with education as a cultural foundation, Trevor is an offspring of Harlem's rich heritage. A graduate of The Fieldston School, Morehouse College and New York Film Academy, Trevor works in public relations. He is also a screenwriter and producer with multiple projects in development. As a writer, he’s contributed to various online publications including Gawker, Blavity, VIBE, Global Grind, NewsOne and the Huffington Post. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/525b5dbf-3ab8-4330-a67e-dff206743c3f/Lee+Hawkins+Headshot.jpg Black Culture and History - Lee Hawkins "The beauty and promise of America lies in our ability to confront even the most painful parts of our history—not to shame ourselves, but to better understand who we are and who we still have the power to become." Lee Hawkins is an American investigative journalist and author who was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2022. His most recent work, I Am Nobody’s Slave: How Uncovering My Family’s History Set Me Free, is an introspective journey into his family history, tracing its roots to pre-Revolutionary America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1714483134509-B2MATZACYFJZB0NS53YF/Davarian+Baldwin+Credit+Vision+Merge+Productions.jpg Black Culture and History - Davarian L. Baldwin Dr. Davarian L. Baldwin (he/him) is an internationally recognized scholar, historian, and public advocate. He is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Founding Director of the Smart Cities Research Lab at Trinity College. A foremost expert on Black social movements and African American history, he is often called upon to consult on everything from the politics of reparations to the global impact of the Harlem Renaissance. His academic and political commitments have focused on global cities and particularly the diverse and marginalized communities that struggle to maintain sustainable lives in urban locales. Baldwin is the award-winning author of several books. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701303820196-QP63T3R4NMYPK2QY1192/Jasmine%2BBrown%2Bauthor%2Bphoto%2Bpc%2BMarcy%2BBrown.jpeg Black Culture and History - Jasmine Brown Jasmine Brown began writing TWICE AS HARD when she was twenty-two. A 2018 recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship, she used her time at the University of Oxford to complete the in-depth research and oral histories synthesized in this book. She graduated from Oxford with Merit, earning an M.Phil. in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology. Brown leverages her connection to her topic to create a work that is both immensely well-researched and personal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1745267241100-DU4DOCTYWUHB65K17G36/image001.jpeg Black Culture and History - Tony Keith Jr. Anthony R. Keith, Jr., Ph.D. (Tony) is a Black, gay spoken word artist, poet, and Hip-Hop educator. His debut, How the Boogeyman Became a Poet, is a powerful YA memoir in verse, tracing his journey from being a closeted gay Black teen battling poverty, racism, and homophobia to becoming an openly gay first-generation college student who finds freedom in poetry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544390646522-N596CZ1HXDBW8ABXG1AU/John+Jennings.jpg Black Culture and History - John Jennings An award-winning illustrator and scholar of black comics, John is a Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside; he is also the publisher of Megascope, an imprint of Abrams ComicArts dedicated to publishing works exploring the experiences of people of color. He speaks widely on the subjects of Afrofuturism and Black Comix. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701304265359-PVH8F2DKKAF1MJ0ACM2W/Joel-Christian-Gill-600x600-1-600x600.jpeg Black Culture and History - Joel Christian Gill Joel Christian Gill is the Inaugural Chair of Boston University’s Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Visual Narrative and Associate Professor in the CFA School of Visual Arts. He is also a cartoonist and historian who speaks nationally on the importance of sharing stories. He is the author of the acclaimed memoir Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence, cited as one of the best graphic novels of 2020 by The New York Times and for which he was awarded the 2021 Cartoonist Studio Prize. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701303503106-GZEEHMBY87GZ9BWF52AG/Amrita%2BHeadshots%2BSept%2B2018-amrita-0013.jpeg Black Culture and History - Amrita Chakrabarti Myers Amrita is an award-winning historian, journalist, activist and commentator whose work examines the intersections of race, gender, power, and freedom, specifically focusing on the lives of enslaved and free black women. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701303574864-X7LD1ANRZ5VL2C1D93TW/jenjphotoshinebright-5124.jpeg Black Culture and History - Danyel Smith From VIBE editor-in-chief to Stanford Fellow to the New York Times —decode culture with America's most astute pop chronicler. Award-winning journalist Danyel Smith is author of the critically-acclaimed Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop (One World / Penguin Random House, April 2022). Danyel is also creator/host of the popular Black Girl Songbook, a podcast that centers the sounds and stories of black women (Spotify Original). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701304459326-HHOORJLV0U4D3QIKW4IF/Kai%2BHarris.jpeg Black Culture and History - Kai Harris Kai Harris is the author of the acclaimed debut novel What the Fireflies Knew (Tiny Reparations, 2022), a Silicon Valley 2023 Read, A Marie Claire Book Club pick as well as being an NAACP Image Award nominee and longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. She is a writer and educator from Detroit, Michigan, who uses her voice to uplift the Black community through realistic fiction centered on the Black experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701304574784-RAMKQLZV91BZROLO2KYD/HafizahGeter110921_048BeowulfSheehan_ecopy%2B%281%29.jpeg Black Culture and History - Hafizah Geter Hafizah Augustus Geter is a Nigerian-American poet, writer, and literary agent born in Zaria, Nigeria, and raised in Akron, Ohio, and Columbia, South Carolina. Her debut memoir, The Black Period: On Personhood, Race & Origin, won the 2023 PEN Open Book Award. Hafizah is also the author of the debut poetry collection Un-American, nominated for a 2021 NAACP Image Award, a finalist for the 2021 PEN Open Book Award, and longlisted for the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1738265186117-B4I3DRGBJPOCCFZQR0QI/Bridgett%2BDavisAuthorPhoto_book_credit_NinaSubin.jpeg Black Culture and History - Bridgett Davis Bridgett M. Davis is the award-winning author of the memoirs Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy and The World According To Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life In The Detroit Numbers. Davis is also the writer and director of the 1998 award-winning feature film Naked Acts, newly restored by Milestone Films and released in 2024 to critical acclaim, and screening in theaters across the US as well as international venues. She is is Professor Emerita in the Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center, where she taught creative, narrative and film writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701304123011-IQ88AG660G6CFKYN7CCH/FaylitaHicksPhotobyChristopherCardoza.jpeg Black Culture and History - Faylita Hicks Faylita Hicks (she/they) is a queer Afro-Latinx writer, spoken word artist, and cultural strategist. With an appreciation for powerful narratives that lead to cultural shifts and community safety, Hicks works with justice-focused nonprofits, arts and literary organizations, and performance venues throughout the US to actively engage in anti-carceral liberation efforts through dynamic storytelling. Hicks is also the author of the critically-acclaimed debut poetry collection HoodWitch, a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701304707391-WTGFDOK8NRQR9MKEWZSB/PhotoCredit_1%2B_%2BDaJuana%2BJones.jpeg Black Culture and History - Allissa V. Richardson “I build technologies that remember—so the world can’t forget. Each line of code holds a testimony, each archive a reckoning. My work gathers what injustice tried to erase, and reimagines what justice has yet to be.” Dr. Allissa V. Richardson is an award-winning journalist, author, and associate professor at USC Annenberg. She founded the Charlotta Bass Journalism & Justice Lab, where she leads the Second Draft Project—an AI-powered oral history initiative preserving the voices of those impacted by police violence. The three-time Harvard Fellow is the author of Bearing Witness While Black and the forthcoming Canceled (MIT Press). Her work explores reparative journalism, Black witnessing, and the ethics of emerging technologies in media. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701303707676-5XLAQPLYZGBUH8L95W0A/kinitra.png Black Culture and History - Kinitra D. Brooks Kinitra D. Brooks is the Audrey and John Leslie Endowed Chair in Literary Studies in the Department of English at Michigan State. She specializes in the study of black women, genre fiction, and popular culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701304002620-8X610FZ1P0LP87TV9SQZ/Nicholas%2BBuccola.jpeg Black Culture and History - Nicholas Buccola Nicholas Buccola is a writer, lecturer, and teacher who specializes in the area of American political thought. He is the author of The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America (Princeton University, 2019) and The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty (New York University Press, 2012). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544462585764-Z5EYJFFLX5EQ92QBAXF7/Stacey+Robinson.jpg Black Culture and History - Stacey Robinson Stacey is a professor, graphic designer, and illustrator of the acclaimed YA graphic novel I Am Alfonso Jones and co-illustrator, with John Jennings, of Prison Industrial Complex For Beginners. He is an assistant professor of graphic design at the University of Illinois. He lectures on Black comics, resistance and protest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1718397218358-H6Q3SOG83VED49CP46IJ/Chloe-Jackman-Photography-Studio-Lifestyle-Photos-2021-94.jpg Black Culture and History - Jamilah Pitts Jamilah Pitts is an author, educator, social entrepreneur, and wellness guide whose work centers the liberation, healing and holistic development of communities of the Global Majority. Jamilah has worked and served in various roles and spaces to promote racial justice and healing. Jamilah has served as a teacher, coach, dean, and as an Assistant Principal. She has worked in domestic and international educational spaces. Jamilah partners with schools, communities, universities and organizations to advance the work of racial, social and intersectional justice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/8c66bcbb-9c2e-4bfb-a361-8ae6170f15c2/Brando.png Black Culture and History - Brando Simeo Starkey Brando Simeo Starkey is a writer and scholar. A graduate of Harvard Law School and a member of the New York Bar, he taught law at Villanova Law School and wrote for several years for ESPN’s The Undefeated (now Andscape). Born and raised in Cincinnati, he lives in Southern California with his wife and two sons. He has launched a newsletter, The Braveverse, about law, politics, and freedom from caste, at the TheBraveverse.com and a YouTube channel covering the same themes at https://www.youtube.com/@TheBraveverse. https://www.pandelectures.com/conversation-leading-fiction-authors daily 0.75 2025-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1715715916536-AGW189D0U2YVG8MDQBCQ/Riverhead%2BPublicity%2BShot%2B2021.jpeg Conversation-Leading Fiction - Kristen Arnett Kristen Arnett is the author of With Teeth: A Novel (Riverhead Books, 2021) and the NYT bestselling debut novel Mostly Dead Things (Tin House, 2019) which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction. She is a queer fiction and essay writer. She was awarded Ninth Letter's Literary Award in Fiction, has been a columnist for Literary Hub, and was a Spring 2020 Shearing Fellow at Black Mountain Institute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1715715916536-AGW189D0U2YVG8MDQBCQ/Riverhead%2BPublicity%2BShot%2B2021.jpeg Conversation-Leading Fiction - Kristen Arnett Kristen Arnett is the author of With Teeth: A Novel (Riverhead Books, 2021) and the NYT bestselling debut novel Mostly Dead Things (Tin House, 2019) which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction. She is a queer fiction and essay writer. She was awarded Ninth Letter's Literary Award in Fiction, has been a columnist for Literary Hub, and was a Spring 2020 Shearing Fellow at Black Mountain Institute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700523915155-EC6D4CSRH95KO8MRI6E4/Patricia+Engel.jpeg Conversation-Leading Fiction - Patricia Engel Patricia Engel is the author of, most recently, the story collection The Faraway World. Her novel Infinite Country was an instant New York Times Bestseller and a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Big Read. Infinite Country is the winner of the New American Voices Award, was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700523795374-KJUBEPXOX27ROLINJXNL/Sequoia_Nagamatsu.jpeg Conversation-Leading Fiction - Sequoia Nagamatsu Sequoia Nagamatsu is the author of the National Bestselling novel, HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK (2022) and the forthcoming GIRL ZERO (William Morrow/HarperCollins and Bloomsbury UK), as well as the story collection, WHERE WE GO WHEN ALL WE WERE IS GONE (Black Lawrence Press). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1762446634328-WISWVSVQRZ145ZS5VK7V/image-asset.jpeg Conversation-Leading Fiction - Matthew Salesses Matthew Salesses is a novelist, scholar, and Korean adoptee who has written and spoken widely on the subjects of adoption, race, Asian masculinity and parenting. His acclaimed first novel, The Hundred-Year Flood, was an Amazon Bestseller and, among other honors, a Best Book of the season at Buzzfeed, Refinery29, and Gawker. His newest novel, The Sense of Wonder, was recently published to great acclaim and optioned by HBO. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700524120149-EGXYWP6JA701DEQJZP94/abulhawa.jpeg Conversation-Leading Fiction - Susan Abulhawa Susan Abulhawa speaks widely on the subjects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the power of storytelling, particularly for marginalized communities. Susan is one of the most widely-read Arab authors. Her debut novel, Mornings in Jenin, is a multigenerational family epic spanning five countries and more than sixty years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700527713691-WH3MK1ONRQ3QMO7WVHBH/IMG_8043%2B-%2BLadee%2BHubbard.jpeg Conversation-Leading Fiction - Ladee Hubbard Ladee is an award-winning author and scholar. Her critically-acclaimed novel, The Talented Ribkins, was awarded the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for the Debut Novel and the 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, among many other honors, and garnered her an appearance on Seth Meyers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700527476124-ZJMPPALFRXJ5EURDPM6X/Kai+Harris.jpeg Conversation-Leading Fiction - Kai Harris Kai Harris is the author of the acclaimed debut novel What the Fireflies Knew (Tiny Reparations, 2022), a Silicon Valley 2023 Read, A Marie Claire Book Club pick as well as being an NAACP Image Award nominee and longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. She is a writer and educator from Detroit, Michigan, who uses her voice to uplift the Black community through realistic fiction centered on the Black experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700528390210-YJ8EQQ6PKYGM9Z4E7UR7/helon-habila.jpeg Conversation-Leading Fiction - Helon Habila An acclaimed Nigerian novelist, poet, and a professor of Creative Writing at George Mason University, Helon Habila speaks nationally and internationally on the subjects of immigration, art and activism. He has delivered at the DeGraaf Lecture at Hope College and has spoken at the Abantu Lit Fest in South Africa. Habila’s first novel, Waiting for an Angel, received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1743193442122-RWP2ZM04RN0M8EAW0S6W/BRIDGETT%2BDAVIS-2.jpeg Conversation-Leading Fiction - Bridgett Davis Bridgett M. Davis is the author of the memoir, The World According To Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life In The Detroit Numbers, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a 2020 Michigan Notable Book, and named a Best Book of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews, BuzzFeed, NBC News and Parade Magazine. She is writing the screenplay for the film adaptation of the book, which will be produced by Plan B Entertainment and released by Searchlight Pictures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1743194358622-AEDVTBPUCKE16T4RL6ZN/image-asset.jpeg Conversation-Leading Fiction - Gloria Muñoz Gloria Muñoz is a Colombian American writer, translator, and advocate for multilingual literacy. She is the author of This is the Year, Your Biome Has Found You, and Danzirly, which won the Ambroggio Prize and the Gold Medal Florida Book Award. Her other honors include an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, Hedgebrook Fellowship, being a Macondista, Highlights Foundation’s Diverse Verse Fellowship, Lumina’s Multilingual Writing Award, and a part of Las Musas. She is proud to be St. Pete's first Latina poet laureate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700527379840-XM8JB8KXCGL39B1I5VK9/HafizahGeter110921_048BeowulfSheehan_ecopy%2B%281%29.jpeg Conversation-Leading Fiction - Hafizah Geter Hafizah Augustus Geter is a Nigerian-American poet, writer, and literary agent born in Zaria, Nigeria, and raised in Akron, Ohio, and Columbia, South Carolina. Her debut memoir, The Black Period: On Personhood, Race & Origin, won the 2023 PEN Open Book Award. Hafizah is also the author of the debut poetry collection Un-American, nominated for a 2021 NAACP Image Award, a finalist for the 2021 PEN Open Book Award, and longlisted for the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1543959297998-LE8M53E0TWRQRA1LXQEP/John+Jennings.jpg Conversation-Leading Fiction - John Jennings An award-winning illustrator and scholar of black comics, John is a Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside; he is also the publisher of Megascope, an imprint of Abrams ComicArts dedicated to publishing works exploring the experiences of people of color. He speaks widely on the subjects of Afrofuturism and Black Comix. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700526972262-SC54VVBKTBCZ84KJVGMM/Anji%2BAnwar.jpeg Conversation-Leading Fiction - Arif Anwar Arif Anwar is an author, professor, and international development professional and technology expert. His first novel, The Storm, spanning fifty years of Bangladeshi history to tell five intertwined love stories, was critically acclaimed by the New York Times and published in multiple languages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1702329847557-UPVK7HVTQOHFX5HIDJ10/madison-smartt-bell_crop.jpeg Conversation-Leading Fiction - Madison Smartt Bell Madison Smartt Bell is the critically acclaimed author of several novels and two short story collections. In a trilogy about the Haitian Revolution, the first novel All Souls’ Rising was a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award and for the 1996 PEN/Faulkner Award. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700527861006-XQ53FBX27QLB5D5SIK6G/Priya%2BHuq1%2B%25281%2529.jpeg Conversation-Leading Fiction - Priya Huq Priya Huq is a Bangladeshi Texan cartoonist living in New York who speaks widely on issues related to the comics industry, art, race, culture, identity and their intersections. Her appearances include the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, Emerald City Comic Con, and New York Comic Con. In her talks, Priya focuses on practical advice for marginalized artists and cartoonists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700527181372-KZ4XSYUGMEEM0JAGF979/kinitra.png Conversation-Leading Fiction - Kinitra Brooks Kinitra D. Brooks is the Audrey and John Leslie Endowed Chair in Literary Studies in the Department of English at Michigan State. She specializes in the study of black women, genre fiction, and popular culture. Her current research focuses on portrayals of the Conjure Woman in popular culture. https://www.pandelectures.com/creative-process-writing-life daily 0.75 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1743192442038-TW01S86GJCOJ7GSG6IJ9/image-asset.jpeg Creative Process and Writing Life - Gloria Muñoz Gloria is a Colombian American writer, translator, and advocate for multilingual literacy. She is the author of This is the Year, Your Biome Has Found You, and Danzirly, which won the Ambroggio Prize and the Gold Medal Florida Book Award. Her other honors include an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, Hedgebrook Fellowship, being a Macondista, Highlights Foundation’s Diverse Verse Fellowship, Lumina’s Multilingual Writing Award, and a part of Las Musas. She is proud to be St. Pete's first Latina poet laureate and she enjoys working with other writers and creatives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1743192442038-TW01S86GJCOJ7GSG6IJ9/image-asset.jpeg Creative Process and Writing Life - Gloria Muñoz Gloria is a Colombian American writer, translator, and advocate for multilingual literacy. She is the author of This is the Year, Your Biome Has Found You, and Danzirly, which won the Ambroggio Prize and the Gold Medal Florida Book Award. Her other honors include an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, Hedgebrook Fellowship, being a Macondista, Highlights Foundation’s Diverse Verse Fellowship, Lumina’s Multilingual Writing Award, and a part of Las Musas. She is proud to be St. Pete's first Latina poet laureate and she enjoys working with other writers and creatives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1715716081750-TNADN1S7GQ42NVQHAIU3/arnett+plm.jpg Creative Process and Writing Life - Kristen Arnett Kristen is The New York Times best-selling author of Mostly Dead Things (Tin House, 2019), as well as a queer fiction and essay writer and a social media genius. Kristen’s unique voice focuses on humor writing, LGBTQ issues, and Florida. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1626788957242-PVUSQL85Z7Z5N4XZZUFR/Susan+Abulhawa.JPG Creative Process and Writing Life - Susan Abulhawa Author of the internationally best-selling Mornings in Jenin (sold in 28 countries), Susan is one of the most widely-read Arab authors of all time. She is also frequently asked to speak on the subjects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the power of storytelling for marginalized communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1743193442122-RWP2ZM04RN0M8EAW0S6W/Bridgett+DavisAuthorPhoto_book_credit_NinaSubin.jpg Creative Process and Writing Life - Bridgett Davis Bridgett is the author of the critically-acclaimed memoir The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers, a New York Times Book Review “Editor’s Pick” and an Entertainment Weekly “Must Read.” She has been invited to speak at numerous venues about her memoir and its historical context. She teaches creative and film writing at Baruch College, CUNY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763050135084-CVSYWBZPTWOJ942A5RJS/Matthew+Salesses.jpg Creative Process and Writing Life - Matthew Salesses Matthew is a novelist, scholar, and Korean adoptee who has written and spoken widely on the subjects of adoption, race, Asian masculinity and parenting. His acclaimed first novel,The Hundred-Year Flood, was an Amazon Bestseller and, among other honors, a Best Book of the season at Buzzfeed, Refinery29, and Gawker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/45866f74-a2f8-4c5a-b0ae-43c6162f7547/Jezz+Chung+by+Jay+Blacks.jpg Creative Process and Writing Life - Jezz Chung Jezz Chung is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores personal and collective change through the lens of race, gender, trauma, disability, and neurodivergence. They’ve been recognized internationally by Spain’s El País, Portugal’s Público, Vogue, Teen Vogue, Logo TV, and Made of Millions. You can listen to their podcast with Deem Journal titled Dreaming Different and read their debut collection of poetry, prose, and practices titled This Way to Change: A Gentle Guide to Personal Transformation and Collective Liberation. Jezz has lived in Georgia, Texas, California, and is now based in Brooklyn, New York. They provide professional development talks and workshops on wellness, creativity, communication, and carerr development. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700516709332-JMO6INRP6VE9QVHQ8YKF/HafizahGeter110921_048BeowulfSheehan_ecopy%2B%281%29.jpeg Creative Process and Writing Life - Hafizah Geter Hafizah Augustus Geter is a Nigerian-American poet, writer, and literary agent born in Zaria, Nigeria, and raised in Akron, Ohio, and Columbia, South Carolina. Her debut memoir, The Black Period: On Personhood, Race & Origin, won the 2023 PEN Open Book Award. Hafizah is also the author of the debut poetry collection Un-American, nominated for a 2021 NAACP Image Award, a finalist for the 2021 PEN Open Book Award, and longlisted for the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763046674285-3GXFGZMCANKI0BTXNT16/Annabelle%252BTometich%252Bheadshot%252Bvert.jpg Creative Process and Writing Life - Annabelle Tometich Annabelle Tometich went from medical-school reject to line cook to journalist to author. She spent 18 years as a food writer and restaurant critic for The News-Press in her hometown of Fort Myers, Florida. Her first book, The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony (2024, Little Brown) was called “sweet, sharp” by The New York Times and won the 2025 Southern Book Prize for Nonfiction. Tometich’s writing has appeared in The Washington Post, USA Today, Catapult, the Tampa Bay Times, and many more outlets. She has won more than a dozen awards for her stories, including first place for Food & Travel Writing at the 2022 Sunshine State Awards. She (still) lives in Fort Myers with her husband, two children, and her ever-fiery Filipina mother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/9f1b77db-cb67-4726-bb62-cd18520d1c81/Joel-Christian-Gill-600x600-1-600x600.jpg Creative Process and Writing Life - Joel Christian Gill Joel Christian Gill is the Inaugural Chair of Boston University’s Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Visual Narrative and Associate Professor in the CFA School of Visual Arts. He is also a cartoonist and historian who speaks nationally on the importance of sharing stories. He is the author of the acclaimed memoir Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence, cited as one of the best graphic novels of 2020 by The New York Times and for which he was awarded the 2021 Cartoonist Studio Prize. His newest work is the graphic novel of Ibram Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Ten Speed Press 2023). Gill has dedicated his life to creating stories to build connections with readers through empathy, compassion and, ultimately, humanity. He received his MFA from Boston University and his BA from Roanoke College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544390996570-QEEWTNKWWJOPPAB595C5/IMG_8043+-+Ladee+Hubbard.jpg Creative Process and Writing Life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700516881216-NUTMS6QYLF0N7409S925/Kai+Harris.jpeg Creative Process and Writing Life - Kai Harris Kai Harris is the author of the acclaimed debut novel What the Fireflies Knew (Tiny Reparations, 2022), a Silicon Valley 2023 Read, A Marie Claire Book Club pick as well as being an NAACP Image Award nominee and longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. She is a writer and educator from Detroit, Michigan, who uses her voice to uplift the Black community through realistic fiction centered on the Black experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1626788407276-IEEOWISVWVZGQY5YPQQQ/IMG_8043+-+Ladee+Hubbard.jpg Creative Process and Writing Life - Ladee Hubbard Ladee is an award-winning author and scholar. Her critically-acclaimed novel, The Talented Ribkins, was awarded the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for the Debut Novel and the 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, among many other honors, and garnered her an appearance on Seth Meyers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1719603468560-B40VDJ6JJNEWLAA16FLS/Raquel_Cepeda_1.jpg Creative Process and Writing Life - Raquel Cepeda Born in Harlem to Dominican parents, award-winning filmmaker and writer Raquel Cepeda is a filmmaker, music expert, and the author of Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina (Atria, Simon & Schuster). Bird of Paradise is equal parts memoir about Cepeda’s coming of age in New York City and Santo Domingo, and detective story chronicling her year-long journey to discover the truth about her ancestry. The book also looks at what it means to be a hyphenated American-Latina today. Raquel travels widely to speak to diverse audiences about Latina identity, social justice, gentrification, inequality, and discovering your story through writing and filmmaking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1762980049593-SI4ENO8CW1NVVXNVFHAS/Susan%2BAbulhawa%2BHeadshot.jpg Creative Process and Writing Life - Susan Abulhawa Susan Abulhawa speaks widely on the power of storytelling, particularly for marginalized communities. Susan is the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine, a non-profit organization dedicated to upholding the Right to Play for Palestinian children under Israeli occupation and in refugee camps outside of Palestine. Susan is one of the most widely-read Arab authors. Her debut novel, Mornings in Jenin, is a multigenerational family epic spanning five countries and more than sixty years. With an unflinching look at the Palestinian question, it was translated into thirty languages and became an international bestseller. Her latest novel, Against the Loveless World, won the Arab American Book Award. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700516601632-WSGQ4MQRZXLCHYR07CKZ/Amrita%252BHeadshots%252BSept%252B2018-amrita-0013.jpeg Creative Process and Writing Life - Amrita Myers Amrita Chakrabarti Myers is an award-winning historian, journalist, activist and commentator whose work examines the intersections of race, gender, power, and freedom, specifically focusing on the lives of enslaved and free black women. Amrita is the author of the award-winning Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston as well as The Vice President’s Black Wife: Resurrecting Julia Chinn, published by Ferris & Ferris in October 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/76fcbf32-8a4d-42a5-aa21-26613ed42197/Kathryn+Hulick+Headshot.jpg Creative Process and Writing Life - Kathryn Hulick Kathryn Hulick is a freelance journalist who covers AI and computing for Science News and Science News Explores. She's also the author of books for young people or anyone who is curious. Her book The UFO Files (Quarto, 2025) combines a sci-fi story with scientific explanations of the marvels found on board an alien spacecraft. Her book Welcome To The Future (Quarto, 2021) is about how technology could change the world, and Strange But True (Quarto, 2019) uses critical thinking to explore the science behind paranormal mysteries. She provides talks and workshops for professionals in STEM and other fields on how to effectively convey information through storytelling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700516429248-C5KOJZ0V1FMLE33FTYXH/jenjphotoshinebright-5124.jpeg Creative Process and Writing Life - Danyel Smith Award-winning journalist Danyel Smith is author of the critically-acclaimed Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop (One World / Penguin Random House, April 2022). Danyel is also creator/host of the popular Black Girl Songbook, a podcast that centers the sounds and stories of black women (Spotify Original). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700517144949-1OO0LO90GSKO9G8ZUYY4/Akemi%2BJohnson%2B%281%29.jpeg Creative Process and Writing Life - Akemi Johnson Akemi Johnson is the author of Night in the American Village: Women in the Shadow of the U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa. A former Fulbright scholar in Okinawa, Akemi has written about the island, along with issues of race, identity, history, and culture, for The Nation, NPR, and other publications. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763044904746-4H90EM0DJ6RS1ABLR7KP/helon-habila.jpg Creative Process and Writing Life - Helon Habila Helon Habila is an acclaimed Nigerian novelist, poet, and a professor of Creative Writing at George Mason University. He speaks nationally and internationally on the subjects of immigration, writing, art and activism. Habila’s first novel, Waiting for an Angel, received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book He also authored Measuring Time, which was nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the Dublin IMPAC Prize and won the Virginia Library Foundation Prize for fiction. His third novel, Oil on Water, won many prizes including the Pen/Open Book Award; Commonwealth Best Book, Africa Region; and The Orion Book Award. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763045520412-RRE9ODQSPRDZBOZT1HMJ/Tony%2BKeith%2BJr.jpg Creative Process and Writing Life - Tony Keith Jr. Tony Keith Jr., PhD is an award-winning Black American gay poet, spoken word artist, and Hip-Hop educational leader from Washington DC. Or, you can just call him an “Ed Emcee”. He is the debut author of How the Boogeyman Became a Poet (Odyssey Award for Audiobook Excellence Winner) and Knucklehead (February 2025), both published by HarperCollins. A multi-year fellow of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Tony has featured performances at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington National Cathedral, Historic Lincoln Theatre, Bus Boys & Poets, and in schools and communities around the world including South Africa, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago and many more. His poem Black Man On Fire won first prize in the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest and his performance of Code Switched is featured in the award-winning documentary series Talking Black in America and published in the book Centering Possibility in Black Education. He enjoys helping audiences discover their voice and empowering them to use it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700523795374-KJUBEPXOX27ROLINJXNL/Sequoia_Nagamatsu.jpeg Creative Process and Writing Life - Sequoia Nagamatsu Sequoia Nagamatsu is the author of the National Bestselling novel, HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK (2022) and the forthcoming GIRL ZERO (William Morrow/HarperCollins and Bloomsbury UK), as well as the story collection, WHERE WE GO WHEN ALL WE WERE IS GONE (Black Lawrence Press). A recognized climate fiction author, he uses his fiction writing to spark conversations about issues that impact society. He was educated at Grinnell College (BA) and Southern Illinois University-Carbondale (MFA), and he teaches creative writing at Saint Olaf College and the Rainier Writing Workshop Low-Residency MFA program. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife, the writer Cole Nagamatsu, their cat Kalahira, their real dog Fenris, and a robot dog named Calvino. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1762981121140-QTXZO74C1ILBULGM4DRB/Patricia%252BEngel.jpg Creative Process and Writing Life - Patricia Engel Patricia Engel is the author of five works of fiction. Her most recent book, a short story collection titled The Faraway World, was a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, longlisted for The Story Prize, and named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year, and a Boston Globe Best Book of the Year. Her novel Infinite Country, a New York Times bestseller, won the New American Voices Award, a Florida Book Award, was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. It was also named a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year, a Reese’s Book Club pick, an Indie Next pick, Entertainment Weekly’s #1 Best Book of the Year, and more. Patricia has been awarded the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and an O. Henry Award. Her books have been translated into many languages and selected as an NEA Big Read. Born to Colombian parents and raised in New Jersey, Patricia is a graduate of New York University and earned her MFA at Florida International University. She is a Professor of English in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Miami. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700518545271-RFLL85UMPQIPBJRW6T47/moezzi-2.jpeg Creative Process and Writing Life - Melody Moezzi Melody Moezzi speaks widely on issues related to mental health and wellness, Islam and Islamophobia, Iran and Iranian-American relations, and much more. She teaches creative writing workshops, inclusion seminars, and CLEs. Melody is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life and War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544459344410-LGVTSD7T616Q0S21VOSI/Anji+Anwar.jpeg Creative Process and Writing Life - Arif Anwar Arif is an acclaimed Bangladeshi novelist who also has expertise in international development. He has worked on issues of poverty alleviation and public health in Bangladesh and other countries. His first novel, The Storm, spanned fifty years of Bangladeshi history to tell five intertwined love stories. He has given talks about his novel in Canada, the US and Bangladesh. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700516972168-V20VGZW7WA0S3NHYJOSV/FaylitaHicksPhotobyChristopherCardoza.jpeg Creative Process and Writing Life - Faylita Hicks Faylita Hicks (she/they) is a queer Afro-Latinx writer, spoken word artist, and cultural strategist. With an appreciation for powerful narratives that lead to cultural shifts and community safety, Hicks works with justice-focused nonprofits, arts and literary organizations, and performance venues throughout the US to actively engage in anti-carceral liberation efforts through dynamic storytelling. Hicks is also the author of the critically-acclaimed debut poetry collection HoodWitch, a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700516519944-Q6DXZ1PCIKHAV951FQR7/kinitra.png Creative Process and Writing Life - Kinitra Brooks Kinitra D. Brooks is the Audrey and John Leslie Endowed Chair in Literary Studies in the Department of English at Michigan State. She specializes in the study of black women, genre fiction, and popular culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1702329714817-1G1DCR3LQESGQTD2KABR/madison-smartt-bell_crop.jpeg Creative Process and Writing Life - Madison Smartt Bell Madison Smartt Bell is the critically acclaimed author of several novels and two short story collections. In a trilogy about the Haitian Revolution, the first novel All Souls’ Rising was a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award and for the 1996 PEN/Faulkner Award. https://www.pandelectures.com/personal-growth-gallery daily 0.75 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1718397218358-H6Q3SOG83VED49CP46IJ/Chloe-Jackman-Photography-Studio-Lifestyle-Photos-2021-94.jpg Personal Growth - Jamilah Pitts Jamilah Pitts is an author, educator, social entrepreneur, and wellness guide whose work centers the liberation, healing and holistic development of communities of the Global Majority. Jamilah has worked and served in various roles and spaces to promote racial justice and healing. Jamilah has served as a teacher, coach, dean, and as an Assistant Principal. She has worked in domestic and international educational spaces. Jamilah partners with schools, communities, universities and organizations to advance the work of racial, social and intersectional justice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1718397218358-H6Q3SOG83VED49CP46IJ/Chloe-Jackman-Photography-Studio-Lifestyle-Photos-2021-94.jpg Personal Growth - Jamilah Pitts Jamilah Pitts is an author, educator, social entrepreneur, and wellness guide whose work centers the liberation, healing and holistic development of communities of the Global Majority. Jamilah has worked and served in various roles and spaces to promote racial justice and healing. Jamilah has served as a teacher, coach, dean, and as an Assistant Principal. She has worked in domestic and international educational spaces. Jamilah partners with schools, communities, universities and organizations to advance the work of racial, social and intersectional justice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544391634473-Q07C6WNEW992XPRS8XII/Engle+1+-+Debra+Engle.jpeg Personal Growth - Debra Landwehr Engle Debra is a bestselling author, spiritual teacher, and communications coach who speaks widely on subjects of spirituality. She is the author of Grace from the Garden, The Only Little Prayer You Need, and Let Your Spirit Guides Speak. Her upcoming books are Be the Light That You Are and Twenty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1690918946478-OJK5SGNZCSSXGQFB0JAX/MyishaCherry.jpg Personal Growth - Myisha Cherry Myisha Cherry is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. She is also the Director of the Emotion and Society Lab. She speaks widely on the topics of the role of emotions and attitudes in public life including self care and community care. Cherry’s books include UnMuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice, The Case for Rage: Why Anger is Essential to Anti-racist Struggle, and Failures of Forgiveness: What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better (released on September 19, 2023). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1596212430089-7Y1JB7SH9FE8KHL73RBK/Layla+Saad+Author+Photo.JPG Personal Growth - Layla F. Saad Layla F. Saad is a New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of Me and White Supremacy, anti-racism educator, international speaker, and podcast host on the topics of race, identity, leadership, personal transformation and social change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1696956527647-6539HIXSJ52TNJFVT7UJ/Headshot+cropped.png Personal Growth - Omkari L. Williams Omkari L. Williams has worked as an actor, political consultant, and coach. Though she has an affinity for supporting activists who identify as introverted or highly sensitive, as she does, she welcomes all people into the world of micro activism, a sustainable path to changemaking. As a queer Black woman, she shares her own story of challenging injustice to empower others in making a difference in their communities. She is host of the popular podcast, Stepping into Truth, where she interviews activists from all walks of life. Her book, Micro Activism: How You Can Make a Difference in the World (Without a Bullhorn) is available from Storey Publishing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1702330337889-63WS9XCLQ5J3V6RCJTLO/Priya%2BHuq1%2B%25281%2529.jpeg Personal Growth - Priya Huq Priya Huq is a Bangladeshi Texan cartoonist living in New York who speaks widely on issues related to the comics industry, art, race, culture, identity and their intersections. Her appearances include the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, Emerald City Comic Con, and New York Comic Con. In her talks, Priya focuses on practical advice for marginalized artists and cartoonists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544462988087-U0GSR96G3NRK7OF7JCXF/Rosie+Mercado.jpg Personal Growth - Rosie Mercado Rosie is an expert life coach on the new TV talk show, Face the Truth and was named one of People en Espanol’s 25 Most Powerful Latinas. She is a correspondent on Telemundo, Univision and Dr. Phil and is a leading voice for women’s empowerment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544393936925-TE7T1TF2KSVFJHIHF2KM/moezzi-2.jpg Personal Growth - Melody Moezzi Melody speaks widely on issues of mental health, Iran, feminism, and Islam in America. Her books include the critically acclaimed memoir, Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life and War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims, which earned her a Georgia Author of the Year Award and a Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Honorable Mention. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/03dca8e9-5d55-46bf-b331-3f337fd29944/Lee+Hawkins+Headshot.jpg Personal Growth - Lee Hawkins ee Hawkins is the author of I Am Nobody’s Slave: How Uncovering My Family’s History Set Me Free (HarperCollins, January 2025), a critically acclaimed memoir that traces 400 years of his Black American family’s history through slavery, Jim Crow apartheid, and the intergenerational trauma that followed. A Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2022, Hawkins is a nationally recognized investigative journalist and former staff member ofThe Wall Street Journal, where he served for 19 years as a reporter, on-camera host, and editor. Mr. Hawkins was a 2023–2024 Rosalynn Carter Fellow for Mental Health Journalism and the 2024 Josephine Albright Fellow of the Alicia Patterson Foundation. He also received the 2024 McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism and was the 2022–2023 O’Brien Fellow for Public Service Journalism at Marquette University. He is a six-time winner of the National Association of Black Journalists' "Salute to Excellence" Award and was a 2018 USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism National Fellow, for reporting on child well-being. He was also named a finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, in 2025 and 2021. A versatile journalist, Hawkins has reported across print, audio, and video, and conducted high-profile interviews with influential newsmakers. He uses DNA analysis, genealogical research, and oral history to investigate America’s buried truths, and his work blends historical inquiry with cultural and emotional clarity. He now uses his experience to teach leadership skills and lessons from business and journalism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/45866f74-a2f8-4c5a-b0ae-43c6162f7547/Jezz+Chung+by+Jay+Blacks.jpg Personal Growth - Jezz Chung Jezz Chung is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores personal and collective change through the lens of race, gender, trauma, disability, and neurodivergence. They’ve been recognized internationally by Spain’s El País, Portugal’s Público, Vogue, Teen Vogue, Logo TV, and Made of Millions. You can listen to their podcast with Deem Journal titled Dreaming Different and read their debut collection of poetry, prose, and practices titled This Way to Change: A Gentle Guide to Personal Transformation and Collective Liberation. Jezz has lived in Georgia, Texas, California, and is now based in Brooklyn, New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763054686573-SERR91X9ZFTM1BHGVZNY/image-asset.jpeg Personal Growth - Danyel Smith Award-winning journalist Danyel Smith is author of the critically-acclaimed Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop. Danyel is also creator/host of the popular Black Girl Songbook, a podcast that centers the sounds and stories of black women (Spotify Original). Danyel’s CV includes being a producer and writer at ESPN, a Knight fellow at Stanford University, an arts fellow at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, and a 2021 Yaddo fellow. She was editor of Billboard, and the first woman and first black person to serve as editor-in-chief of VIBE. She has written two novels — More Like Wrestling and Bliss, and Danyel’s recent work appears in the New York Times, LitHub, The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and at NPR. Danyel lives in Southern California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763045520412-RRE9ODQSPRDZBOZT1HMJ/Tony%2BKeith%2BJr.jpg Personal Growth - Tony Keith Jr. Tony Keith Jr., PhD is an award-winning Black American gay poet, spoken word artist, and Hip-Hop educational leader from Washington DC. Or, you can just call him an “Ed Emcee”. He is the debut author of How the Boogeyman Became a Poet and Knucklehead (February 2025), both published by HarperCollins. A multi-year fellow of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Tony has featured performances at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington National Cathedral, Historic Lincoln Theatre, Bus Boys & Poets, and in schools and communities around the world including South Africa, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago and many more. He is a former cultural center director at Penn State University and University of North Carolina Charlotte, and served as an adjunct professor and academic advisor at the University of the District of Columbia and the University of Maryland College Park (UMD). Tony is co-author of the award-winning book Open Mic Night: Campus Programs that Champion College Student Voice and Engagement. He holds a BA in Communication Studies from University of Maryland College Park, an M.Ed. in College Student Affairs from Penn State University, and PhD in Education Leadership from George Mason University. His dissertation received outstanding recognition and awards from the American Education Research Association and Humanities DC. Currently, Tony serves as founder and CEO of Ed Emcee Academy, is on the board of Directors at Shout Mouse Press, and teaches English Language Arts for adult learners at Academy of Hope in his DC hometown, where he resides with his husband, Harry Christian III. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1746567734927-EIPYHJCQLCXIUO9L7IGW/GM%2BPHOTO%2B2_2024.jpg Personal Growth - Gloria Muñoz Gloria Muñoz is a Colombian American writer, translator, and advocate for multilingual literacy. She is the author of This is the Year, Your Biome Has Found You, and Danzirly, which won the Ambroggio Prize and the Gold Medal Florida Book Award. Her other honors include an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, Hedgebrook Fellowship, being a Macondista, Highlights Foundation’s Diverse Verse Fellowship, Lumina’s Multilingual Writing Award, and a part of Las Musas. She is proud to be St. Pete's first Latina poet laureate. Through Moonlit Música, a bilingual media company she co-founded, she writes narrative scripts and songs for children, adolescent, and adult programming. Notable clients include The New York Times, Comedy Central, hulu, Rebel Girls, Apple tv, Google, FX, and Hatch, for which she has developed beloved sleep story characters, including Mari Mariposa, a bilingual butterfly with a passion for community building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763046674285-3GXFGZMCANKI0BTXNT16/Annabelle%252BTometich%252Bheadshot%252Bvert.jpg Personal Growth - Annabelle Tometich Annabelle Tometich went from medical-school reject to line cook to journalist to author. She spent 18 years as a food writer and restaurant critic for The News-Press in her hometown of Fort Myers, Florida. Her first book, The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony (2024, Little Brown) was called “sweet, sharp” by The New York Times and won the 2025 Southern Book Prize for Nonfiction. She helps audiences navigate nontraditional career paths and find the courage to embrace their true selves. https://www.pandelectures.com/speakers-education-learning-gallery daily 0.75 2026-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701734906035-W3BSDKK03LVMRVMZQO3D/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-09-29%2Bat%2B10.15.30%2BAM.png Education and Learning - Britt Hawthorne Britt Hawthorne (they/she) is the author of the highly-anticipated, New York Times Bestseller, Raising Antiracist Children: A Practical Parenting Guide (Simon Element, 2022). Britt is also an antiracist educator, teacher, speaker, visionary, and advocate committed to raising a generation of antiracist children by centering families of the global majority and fostering equitable learning environments for students and children of all ages and backgrounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1581708906973-JJHBKONJ72KCAXPOR8YD/1-oreskes-claudio-cambon.jpg Education and Learning - Naomi Oreskes A world-renowned geologist, historian and public speaker, Naomi is a leading voice on the role of science in society and the reality of anthropogenic climate change. She is the co-author of the internationally bestselling Merchants of Doubt, as well as a professor of the History of Science and an affiliated professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701734906035-W3BSDKK03LVMRVMZQO3D/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-09-29%2Bat%2B10.15.30%2BAM.png Education and Learning - Britt Hawthorne Britt Hawthorne (they/she) is the author of the highly-anticipated, New York Times Bestseller, Raising Antiracist Children: A Practical Parenting Guide (Simon Element, 2022). Britt is also an antiracist educator, teacher, speaker, visionary, and advocate committed to raising a generation of antiracist children by centering families of the global majority and fostering equitable learning environments for students and children of all ages and backgrounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1576689146713-PLIKRN85KWBEMWOEUX6S/Newson+Richerson.jpeg Education and Learning - Lesley Newson and Pete Richerson A husband and wife team, journalist Lesley and biologist Pete are the co-authors of the forthcoming The Story of Us: How Primates Became Human (Oxford University Press, 2020), a retelling of our origins story that draws on cutting-edge research. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701734962301-J4WFRQS3UABH9DEGXH6K/Tiffany%2BJewell.jpeg Education and Learning - Tiffany Jewell Tiffany Jewell is a Black biracial writer, twin sister, first generation American, cisgender mama, anti-bias antiracist (ABAR) educator, and consultant. She is the author of the #1 New York Times and #1 Indie Bestseller, This Book Is Anti-Racist, a book for young folks and everyone to wake up, take action, and do the work of becoming antiracist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544391667389-J0C0T9ONXQSPI70NJBIY/Newson+Richerson.jpeg Education and Learning https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1745267511783-JXSYHMKRRFO2GXGW3KJ5/image001.jpeg Education and Learning - Tony Keith Jr. Anthony R. Keith, Jr., Ph.D. (Tony) is a Black, gay spoken word artist, poet, and Hip-Hop educator. His debut, How the Boogeyman Became a Poet, is a powerful YA memoir in verse, tracing his journey from being a closeted gay Black teen battling poverty, racism, and homophobia to becoming an openly gay first-generation college student who finds freedom in poetry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763047110644-F07H9B5EDCLCYHRYVK86/Davarian-L.-Baldwin.-Photo-by-VisionMerge-Productions.jpg Education and Learning - Davarian L. Baldwin Davarian L. Baldwin is a leading voice on the topic of the future of higher education. He is an internationally recognized scholar, historian, and public advocate. He is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Founding Director of the Smart Cities Research Lab at Trinity College. A foremost expert on Black social movements and African American history, he is often called upon to consult on everything from the politics of reparations to the global impact of the Harlem Renaissance. His academic and political commitments have focused on global cities and particularly the diverse and marginalized communities that struggle to maintain sustainable lives in urban locales. Baldwin is the award-winning author of several books including In The Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities (2021), Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life (2007), and Land of Darkness: Chicago and the Making of Race in Modern America (forthcoming from Oxford University Press). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1718397218358-H6Q3SOG83VED49CP46IJ/Chloe-Jackman-Photography-Studio-Lifestyle-Photos-2021-94.jpg Education and Learning - Jamilah Pitts Jamilah Pitts is an author, educator, social entrepreneur, and wellness guide whose work centers the liberation, healing and holistic development of communities of the Global Majority. Jamilah has worked and served in various roles and spaces to promote racial justice and healing. Jamilah has served as a teacher, coach, dean, and as an Assistant Principal. She has worked in domestic and international educational spaces. Jamilah partners with schools, communities, universities and organizations to advance the work of racial, social and intersectional justice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763052447855-29IWO53K5A47YY5TKNTF/Siva+Vaidhyanathan+Color+Headshot.jpeg Education and Learning - Siva Vaidhyanathan As a cultural historian, media scholar and lecturer, Siva Vaidhyanathan speaks on the impact of digitalization on society and democracy particularly within the sphere of education. In his speeches, he encourages audiences to consider how technological advances like artificial intelligence, corporations like Google and algorithm-fueled social media platforms shape the way we think and what we can do to foster a new Internet ecosystem designed to benefit the whole world. At the University of Virginia, Vaidhyanathan serves as the Robertson Professor of Media Studies and the director of the Center for Media and Citizenship. He is a frequent contributor on media and cultural issues on public radio shows and news programs, notably BBC, CNN and NBC. Siva has authored several books, including Antisocial Media and The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry). He also co-hosted the podcast Democracy in Danger. His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian and The Nation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/4c7610a9-f0e7-4100-a5a1-e17c6075d08f/noah4-grass.jpeg Education and Learning - Noah Giansiracusa Noah Giansiracusa is a leading voice in math empowerment and an associate professor of mathematics at Bentley University (a business school near Boston), visiting scholar at Harvard, and co-host of the AI in Academia podcast. He is the 2026 recipient of a national communication award for "bringing mathematical ideas and information to nonmathematical audiences," an honor shared by past recipients including Nate Silver, Roger Penrose, and Martin Gardner. Noah has appeared on CNN live and BBC radio and written for Washington Post, Scientific American, TIME, Wired, Boston Globe, and others. His first book explores the algorithms impacting our information ecosystem, while his second book, Robin Hood Math, shows how people of all backgrounds can use math to help navigate life and take back control in a world dominated by algorithms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/76fcbf32-8a4d-42a5-aa21-26613ed42197/Kathryn+Hulick+Headshot.jpg Education and Learning - Kathryn Hulick Kathryn Hulick (she/her) is a freelance journalist who covers AI and computing for Science News and Science News Explores. She's also the author of books for young people or anyone who is curious. Her book The UFO Files (Quarto, 2025) combines a sci-fi story with scientific explanations of the marvels found on board an alien spacecraft. Her book Welcome To The Future (Quarto, 2021) is about how technology could change the world, and Strange But True (Quarto, 2019) uses critical thinking to explore the science behind paranormal mysteries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701735059429-MDGYJ7FM2EQJJIR9B0QX/Joel-Christian-Gill-600x600-1-600x600.jpeg Education and Learning - Joel Christian Gill Joel Christian Gill is the Inaugural Chair of Boston University’s Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Visual Narrative and Associate Professor in the CFA School of Visual Arts. He is also a cartoonist and historian who speaks nationally on the importance of sharing stories. He is the author of the acclaimed memoir Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence, cited as one of the best graphic novels of 2020 by The New York Times and for which he was awarded the 2021 Cartoonist Studio Prize. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1743192720900-9XUAEGAFBPHFQE4XEUL3/image-asset.jpeg Education and Learning - Gloria Muñoz Gloria is a Colombian American writer, translator, and advocate for multilingual literacy. She is the author of This is the Year, Your Biome Has Found You, and Danzirly, which won the Ambroggio Prize and the Gold Medal Florida Book Award. Her other honors include an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, Hedgebrook Fellowship, being a Macondista, Highlights Foundation’s Diverse Verse Fellowship, Lumina’s Multilingual Writing Award, and a part of Las Musas. She is proud to be St. Pete's first Latina poet laureate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701735451176-985QLSSPJSMWF92Y5Y84/Priya%2BHuq1%2B%25281%2529.jpeg Education and Learning - Priya Huq Priya Huq is a Bangladeshi Texan cartoonist living in New York who speaks widely on issues related to the comics industry, art, race, culture, identity and their intersections. Her appearances include the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, Emerald City Comic Con, and New York Comic Con. In her talks, Priya focuses on practical advice for marginalized artists and cartoonists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701735390095-42DTV4RKM7BZ0UIWDS6F/Kai%2BHarris.jpeg Education and Learning - Kai Harris Kai Harris is the author of the acclaimed debut novel What the Fireflies Knew (Tiny Reparations, 2022), a Silicon Valley 2023 Read, A Marie Claire Book Club pick as well as being an NAACP Image Award nominee and longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. She is a writer and educator from Detroit, Michigan, who uses her voice to uplift the Black community through realistic fiction centered on the Black experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701735236560-UZCJ4CXPZRXNGO4JMLZ2/John%2BJennings.jpeg Education and Learning - John Jennings An award-winning illustrator and scholar of black comics, John is a Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside; he is also the publisher of Megascope, an imprint of Abrams ComicArts dedicated to publishing works exploring the experiences of people of color. He speaks widely on the subjects of Afrofuturism and Black Comix. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/a2311399-f166-4140-a1e8-820a54a3a641/Kristen+Arnett+Headshot.jpg Education and Learning - Kristen Arnett Kristen Arnett is an intellectual freedom advocate and the queer author of With Teeth: A Novel (Riverhead Books, 2021) which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction and the NYT bestselling debut novel Mostly Dead Things (Tin House, 2019) which was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction and was shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Her latest novel Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One (Riverhead Books, 2025) explores the themes of humor and community. She was awarded a Shearing Fellowship at Black Mountain Institute, has held residencies at Ragdale Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, the Millay Colony, and the Key West Literary Seminar, and was longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Her work has appeared at The New York Times, TIME, The Cut, Oprah Magazine, Guernica, Buzzfeed, McSweeneys, PBS Newshour, The Guardian, Salon, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. Her next project is a collection of short stories. Kristen currently writes a popular column for LitHub. She has a Masters in Library and Information Science from Florida State University and lives in Orlando, Florida. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/03dca8e9-5d55-46bf-b331-3f337fd29944/Lee+Hawkins+Headshot.jpg Education and Learning - Lee Hawkins Lee Hawkins is a leading expert in how intergenerational trauma impacts education and learning. He specializes in how experiences of trauma can change ACEs scores. He is an American investigative journalist and author who was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2022. His most recent book, I Am Nobody’s Slave: How Uncovering My Family’s History Set Me Free, is an introspective journey into his family history, tracing its roots to pre-Revolutionary America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1576012500726-4TKPF4QWR2T7XO1K0Y43/doug+boin.jpg Education and Learning - Doug Boin Dr. Douglas Boin (B.A., Georgetown University; M.A. and Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) is a historian, teacher, and author. His books include Coming Out Christian in the Roman World, A Social and Cultural History of Late Antiquity, and Alaric the Goth: An Outsider’s History of the Fall of Rome, which was named by The Economist one of the best books of 2020. His next book, Clodia of Rome, will appear from W. W. Norton in August 2025. An experienced educator with more than two decades of experience, he coaches other educators and teaching strategies and the importance of historical storytelling in the age of Big Data and AI. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1772813929474-CCZET28NTDTAJX732XGQ/SafiyaUmojaNoble_Credit_Stella_Kallnina-1-scaled.jpg Education and Learning - Safiya U. Noble Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble is the David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of Gender Studies, African American Studies, and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is the Director of the Center on Resilience & Digital Justice (CRDJ) and Co-Director of the Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power at the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). She currently serves as a Director of the UCLA DataX Initiative, leading work in critical data studies for the campus. Professor Noble is the author of the best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic harm in commercial search engines, entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press), which has been widely-reviewed in scholarly and popular publications. In 2021, she was recognized as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow for her ground-breaking work on algorithmic discrimination. Dr. Noble is a board member of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, serving those vulnerable to online harassment, and provides expertise to a number of civil and human rights organizations. She is a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford where she is a chartering member of the International Panel on the Information Environment. In 2022, she was recognized as the inaugural NAACP-Archewell Digital Civil Rights Award recipient. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763050135084-CVSYWBZPTWOJ942A5RJS/Matthew+Salesses+Headshot.jpeg Education and Learning - Matthew Salesses Matthew Salesses is a groundbreaking educator who challenged the status quo of workshops in the creative writing space and pioneered new methods for teaching creative writing. He is the author of eight books, most recently The Sense of Wonder, the national bestseller Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping (a Best Book of 2021 at NPR, Esquire, Library Journal, Independent Book Review, Chicago Tribune, Electric Literature, and others), and the PEN/Faulkner Finalist and Dublin Literary Award longlisted novel Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1762979292528-9TLEAF2O35BPLQPKPTRK/Omkari%2BL.%2BWilliams%2BHeadshot.png Education and Learning - Omkari L. Williams Omkari L. Williams is the Gold Nautilus award-winning and bestselling author of Micro Activism: How You Can Make a Difference in the World (Without A Bullhorn). Her book helps readers of all ages identify their “activist archetype" and map a personal action plan for engaging in small, change-making activities with potentially big impacts. Omkari has worked as an actor, political consultant, and coach. Though she has an affinity for supporting activists who identify as introverted or highly sensitive, as she does, she often works with educators and nonprofits and welcomes all people into the world of micro activism, a sustainable path to change-making based upon honoring the inherent dignity of all people. Omkari lives in Western Massachusetts where she enjoys being part of a vibrant community of artists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701735505917-O3OYO4S6NFAFT3AL4ZPK/Sherine%2BHamdy+%281%29.jpeg Education and Learning - Sherine Hamdy An anthropologist and graphic novelist, Sherine speaks nationally and internationally on the role of comics as a teaching tool and on social justice and representation in comics. In addition to her acclaimed academic work, she is the co-author of the graphic novel Lissa and author of the forthcoming YA graphic novel Jabs, the story of a Muslim-American girl’s coming-of-age. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701735140321-Z9O8J61IDTWIOGKPE8W1/Stacey%2BRobinson.jpeg Education and Learning - Stacey Robinson Stacey is a professor, graphic designer, and illustrator of the acclaimed YA graphic novel I Am Alfonso Jones and co-illustrator, with John Jennings, of Prison Industrial Complex For Beginners. He is an assistant professor of graphic design at the University of Illinois. He lectures on Black comics, resistance and protest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/43871440-9335-4ba0-a40b-7c98276a4e0e/headshot+2024.JPG Education and Learning - TIERA TANKSLEY Dr. Tiera Tanksley is a Senior Researcher whose work examines the socioemotional, mental health and academic impacts of digital and artificially intelligent technologies on Black youth. In 2020, Dr. Tanksley founded the Race, Abolition and Artificial Intelligence summer program - a critical science and technology program that prepares young people to have more critical, agentic and algorithmically-conscious relationships with AI and digital tech. https://www.pandelectures.com/antibias-education/gallery daily 0.75 2026-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/45866f74-a2f8-4c5a-b0ae-43c6162f7547/Jezz+Chung+by+Jay+Blacks.jpg Antibias and Antiracist Education - Jezz Chung “More often than not conversations about autism are led by people who parent autistic children or care for an autistic person in their life. While these are important pathways to collective understanding, autistic people themselves can no longer afford to be left out of the discourse.” Jezz Chung is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores personal and collective change through the lens of race, gender, trauma, disability, and neurodivergence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/45866f74-a2f8-4c5a-b0ae-43c6162f7547/Jezz+Chung+by+Jay+Blacks.jpg Antibias and Antiracist Education - Jezz Chung “More often than not conversations about autism are led by people who parent autistic children or care for an autistic person in their life. While these are important pathways to collective understanding, autistic people themselves can no longer afford to be left out of the discourse.” Jezz Chung is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores personal and collective change through the lens of race, gender, trauma, disability, and neurodivergence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1718397218358-H6Q3SOG83VED49CP46IJ/Chloe-Jackman-Photography-Studio-Lifestyle-Photos-2021-94.jpg Antibias and Antiracist Education - Jamilah Pitts Jamilah Pitts is an author, educator, social entrepreneur, and wellness guide whose work centers the liberation, healing and holistic development of communities of the Global Majority. Jamilah has worked and served in various roles and spaces to promote racial justice and healing. Jamilah has served as a teacher, coach, dean, and as an Assistant Principal. She has worked in domestic and international educational spaces. Jamilah partners with schools, communities, universities and organizations to advance the work of racial, social and intersectional justice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700078131928-9C4RZXZV5ZA4QP3MYJ93/Tiffany%2BJewell.jpg Antibias and Antiracist Education - Tiffany Jewell “Not speaking the truth reinforces racism. It allows us to believe it’s our normal. If we don’t talk with our children about injustice and systemic oppression, they’ll still have their questions and form their own answers, which can be inaccurate and confusing.” Tiffany Jewell is a Black biracial writer, twin sister, first generation American, cisgender mama, anti-bias antiracist (ABAR) educator, and consultant. She is the author of the #1 New York Times and #1 Indie Bestseller, This Book Is Anti-Racist, a book for young folks and everyone to wake up, take action, and do the work of becoming antiracist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1626789080499-AF2TGTBSBH7OURA6Y2UT/Susan+Abulhawa.JPG Antibias and Antiracist Education - Susan Abulhawa Author of the internationally best-selling Mornings in Jenin (sold in 28 countries), Susan is one of the most widely-read Arab authors of all time. She is also frequently asked to speak on the subjects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the power of storytelling for marginalized communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1745267109381-G7PF8OESMWUSXOI95KEX/Tony%2BKeith.jpg Antibias and Antiracist Education - Tony Keith Jr. “In this moment, if you’ve got to pivot anything, pivot to focus on your purpose work. What’s serving your purpose, right? Do that. And if you’ve got to adjust your language and your mission statement to make sure that it’s in more service of purpose, now we’re talking.” Dr. Keith is a multi-year fellow and grant awardee from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and Humanities DC for his public and scholarly work about Hip-Hop, spoken word poetry, and racial justice in American education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/d3698503-9d06-4ec1-b1b4-60e5f366bad0/Storey+Headshot+1.png Antibias and Antiracist Education - Omkari L. Williams “When we get stuck in changemaking work, it’s often because we feel overwhelmed by the scope of the task before us. When overwhelm strikes get strategic. What’s one thing that you can do right now that will make the most difference?” Omkari L. Williams has worked as an actor, political consultant, and coach. Though she has an affinity for supporting activists who identify as introverted or highly sensitive, as she does, she welcomes all people into the world of micro activism, a sustainable path to changemaking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700076908217-2Q1XH2IN9UQ9RY9R2Z2Y/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-09-29%2Bat%2B10.15.30%2BAM.png Antibias and Antiracist Education - Britt Hawthorne Britt Hawthorne (they/she) is the author of the highly-anticipated, New York Times Bestseller, Raising Antiracist Children: A Practical Parenting Guide (Simon Element, 2022). Britt is also an antiracist educator, teacher, speaker, visionary, and advocate committed to raising a generation of antiracist children by centering families of the global majority and fostering equitable learning environments for students and children of all ages and backgrounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700077178439-DNYSFR7KI21UH46B65DH/Joel-Christian-Gill-600x600-1-600x600.jpeg Antibias and Antiracist Education - Joel Christian Gill "The best analogy I can give is white supremacy is an algorithm that runs in the background... And in order to prop it up, all you got to do is ignore it. I think if there's nothing else about white supremacy to understand is that to destroy the algorithm you have to investigate it. You have to look at it. You have to make specific decisions about it and then you have to dismantle it." Joel Christian Gill is the Inaugural Chair of Boston University’s Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Visual Narrative and Associate Professor in the CFA School of Visual Arts. He is also a cartoonist and historian who speaks nationally on the importance of sharing stories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/43871440-9335-4ba0-a40b-7c98276a4e0e/headshot+2024.JPG Antibias and Antiracist Education - TIERA TANKSLEY Dr. Tiera Tanksley is a Senior Researcher whose work examines the socioemotional, mental health and academic impacts of digital and artificially intelligent technologies on Black youth. Her work examines anti-Blackness as the “default setting” of schools and school-based technologies, including GenAI chatbots, facial recognition systems, weapons detection systems, and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1690918497348-ZCS4M7HL7CPE48P23509/MyishaCherry.jpg Antibias and Antiracist Education - Myisha Cherry Myisha Cherry is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. She is also the Director of the Emotion and Society Lab. She speaks widely on the topics of emotions and race. Cherry’s books include UnMuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice, The Case for Rage: Why Anger is Essential to Anti-racist Struggle, and Failures of Forgiveness: What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better (released on September 19, 2023). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544391936559-JAMRXAICFD28XN2L0JQS/John+Jennings.jpg Antibias and Antiracist Education - John Jennings An award-winning illustrator and scholar of black comics, John is a Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside; he is also the publisher of Megascope, an imprint of Abrams ComicArts dedicated to publishing works exploring the experiences of people of color. He speaks widely on the subjects of Afrofuturism and Black Comix. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544463089123-E4708XWTCQT6PIUK2XTO/Amrita+Headshots+Sept+2018-amrita-0013.jpg Antibias and Antiracist Education - Amrita Chakrabarti Myers Amrita is an award-winning historian, journalist, activist and commentator whose work examines the intersections of race, gender, power, and freedom, specifically focusing on the lives of enslaved and free black women. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1596212661088-QN5Z3V3LYJWH2M9EOYCM/Layla+Saad+Author+Photo.JPG Antibias and Antiracist Education - Layla F. Saad Layla F. Saad is a New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of Me and White Supremacy, anti-racism educator, international speaker, and podcast host on the topics of race, identity, leadership, personal transformation and social change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1721404481419-A3YGK7SDZAR79A6TCFFO/Lee+Hawkins+Headshot.jpg Antibias and Antiracist Education - Lee Hawkins "The greatest form of patriotism is not pretending the wounds don’t exist—it’s helping the country heal by knowing exactly where the scars came from." Lee Hawkins is an American investigative journalist and author who was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2022. His most recent book, I Am Nobody’s Slave: How Uncovering My Family’s History Set Me Free, is an introspective journey into his family history, tracing its roots to pre-Revolutionary America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544463078758-EIK00OSFM0WR8O34MGNG/Stacey+Robinson.jpg Antibias and Antiracist Education - Stacey Robinson Stacey is a professor, graphic designer, and illustrator of the acclaimed YA graphic novel I Am Alfonso Jones and co-illustrator, with John Jennings, of Prison Industrial Complex For Beginners. He is an assistant professor of graphic design at the University of Illinois. He lectures on Black comics, resistance and protest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1738305355069-SHADHQTIQH9E4KT1RQHZ/AllisaVRichardson_Headshot_PhotoCredit_1%2B_%2BDaJuana%2BJones.jpeg Antibias and Antiracist Education - Allissa V. Richardson “I use AI to amplify the voices history tried to hush. Technology shouldn’t erase us—it should make the world lean in, listen, and never look away.” Allissa V. Richardson, PhD is an assistant professor of journalism at USC Annenberg. She researches how African Americans use mobile and social media to produce innovative forms of journalism — especially in times of crisis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701901918141-7N12MDLPAPKD6MDAMVFT/Jasmine%2BBrown%2Bauthor%2Bphoto%2Bpc%2BMarcy%2BBrown.jpeg Antibias and Antiracist Education - Jasmine Brown Dr. Jasmine Brown began writing Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century when she was twenty-two. A 2018 recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship, she is currently finishing up her ophthalmology residency at Stanford University. Brown leverages her vast knowledge and personal connections to the topic of representation in science and medicine to craft talks that are both immensely well-researched and personal. https://www.pandelectures.com/womens-stories/womens-empowerment-gallery daily 0.75 2026-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701901575548-I7GXE3RYE1EDENHJBEYL/Patricia%2BEngel.jpeg Women's Stories/Women’s Empowerment - Patricia Engel Patricia Engel is the author of, most recently, the story collection The Faraway World. Her novel Infinite Country was an instant New York Times Bestseller and a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Big Read. Infinite Country is the winner of the New American Voices Award, was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701901575548-I7GXE3RYE1EDENHJBEYL/Patricia%2BEngel.jpeg Women's Stories/Women’s Empowerment - Patricia Engel Patricia Engel is the author of, most recently, the story collection The Faraway World. Her novel Infinite Country was an instant New York Times Bestseller and a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Big Read. Infinite Country is the winner of the New American Voices Award, was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544552507868-080A5S0C8AYGMMJ45TV4/Nura+Maznavi.jpg Women's Stories/Women’s Empowerment - Nura Maznavi Nura is a writer, attorney, and the editor of the groundbreaking anthologies Love, InshAllah and Salaam, Love and has been featured globally by media including the New York Times, NPR, the BBC, Washington Post, Guardian, Times of India, Dawn Pakistan, and Jakarta Post. She gave a popular TEDx talk on the monolithic image of Muslim women. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701901640915-8JN208LPCIF6SHX8F9EE/Kai%2BHarris.jpeg Women's Stories/Women’s Empowerment - Kai Harris Kai Harris is the author of the acclaimed debut novel What the Fireflies Knew (Tiny Reparations, 2022), a Silicon Valley 2023 Read, A Marie Claire Book Club pick as well as being an NAACP Image Award nominee and longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. She is a writer and educator from Detroit, Michigan, who uses her voice to uplift the Black community through realistic fiction centered on the Black experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701901695494-T1LFO1IK9S11TT80UG5F/abulhawa.jpeg Women's Stories/Women’s Empowerment - Susan Abulhawa Susan Abulhawa speaks widely on the subjects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the power of storytelling, particularly for marginalized communities. Susan is one of the most widely-read Arab authors. Her debut novel, Mornings in Jenin, is a multigenerational family epic spanning five countries and more than sixty years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1715715989966-U6VEG8JOIST79YE596YV/Riverhead%2BPublicity%2BShot%2B2021.jpeg Women's Stories/Women’s Empowerment - Kristen Arnett Kristen Arnett is the author of With Teeth: A Novel (Riverhead Books, 2021) and the NYT bestselling debut novel Mostly Dead Things (Tin House, 2019) which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction. She is a queer fiction and essay writer. She was awarded Ninth Letter's Literary Award in Fiction, has been a columnist for Literary Hub, and was a Spring 2020 Shearing Fellow at Black Mountain Institute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701901809971-DH2RU5ELX843KHQHA2OJ/kinitra.png Women's Stories/Women’s Empowerment - Kinitra D. Brooks Kinitra D. Brooks is the Audrey and John Leslie Endowed Chair in Literary Studies in the Department of English at Michigan State. She specializes in the study of black women, genre fiction, and popular culture. Her current research focuses on portrayals of the Conjure Woman in popular culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701901918141-7N12MDLPAPKD6MDAMVFT/Jasmine%2BBrown%2Bauthor%2Bphoto%2Bpc%2BMarcy%2BBrown.jpeg Women's Stories/Women’s Empowerment - Jasmine Brown Jasmine Brown began writing TWICE AS HARD when she was twenty-two. A 2018 recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship, she used her time at the University of Oxford to complete the in-depth research and oral histories synthesized in this book. She graduated from Oxford with Merit, earning an M.Phil. in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology. Brown leverages her connection to her topic to create a work that is both immensely well-researched and personal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1738265420854-IUNYAQQOPMCPYMPLBA94/Bridgett%2BDavisAuthorPhoto_book_credit_NinaSubin.jpeg Women's Stories/Women’s Empowerment - Bridgett M. Davis Bridgett M. Davis is the award-winning author of the memoirs Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy and The World According To Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life In The Detroit Numbers. Davis is also the writer and director of the 1998 award-winning feature film Naked Acts, newly restored by Milestone Films and released in 2024 to critical acclaim, and screening in theaters across the US as well as international venues. She is is Professor Emerita in the Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center, where she taught creative, narrative and film writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701902044090-4QT0PM1QSUXYQJFPMXY1/HafizahGeter110921_048BeowulfSheehan_ecopy%2B%281%29.jpeg Women's Stories/Women’s Empowerment - Hafizah Augustus Geter Hafizah Augustus Geter is a Nigerian-American poet, writer, and literary agent born in Zaria, Nigeria, and raised in Akron, Ohio, and Columbia, South Carolina. Her debut memoir, The Black Period: On Personhood, Race & Origin, won the 2023 PEN Open Book Award. Hafizah is also the author of the debut poetry collection Un-American, nominated for a 2021 NAACP Image Award, a finalist for the 2021 PEN Open Book Award, and longlisted for the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701902132485-GN7LMNTVRS6A87E01K5S/Sherine%2BHamdy.jpeg Women's Stories/Women’s Empowerment - Sherine Hamdy An anthropologist and graphic novelist, Sherine speaks nationally and internationally on the role of comics as a teaching tool and on social justice and representation in comics. In addition to her acclaimed academic work, she is the co-author of the graphic novel Lissa and author of the forthcoming YA graphic novel Jabs, the story of a Muslim-American girl’s coming-of-age. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701902193911-8GZSHLWUGR4Q3LRWTIM4/FaylitaHicksPhotobyChristopherCardoza.jpeg Women's Stories/Women’s Empowerment - Faylita Hicks Faylita Hicks (she/they) is a queer Afro-Latinx writer, spoken word artist, and cultural strategist. With an appreciation for powerful narratives that lead to cultural shifts and community safety, Hicks works with justice-focused nonprofits, arts and literary organizations, and performance venues throughout the US to actively engage in anti-carceral liberation efforts through dynamic storytelling. Hicks is also the author of the critically-acclaimed debut poetry collection HoodWitch, a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701902254540-EHQNB6EZQAI40AJXQECP/IMG_8043%2B-%2BLadee%2BHubbard.jpeg Women's Stories/Women’s Empowerment - Ladee Hubbard Ladee is an award-winning author and scholar. Her critically-acclaimed novel, The Talented Ribkins, was awarded the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for the Debut Novel and the 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, among many other honors, and garnered her an appearance on Seth Meyers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701902325003-6N9E40IY0VEGFJ00DOCX/Priya%2BHuq1%2B%25281%2529.jpeg Women's Stories/Women’s Empowerment - Priya Huq Priya Huq is a Bangladeshi Texan cartoonist living in New York who speaks widely on issues related to the comics industry, art, race, culture, identity and their intersections. Her appearances include the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, Emerald City Comic Con, and New York Comic Con. In her talks, Priya focuses on practical advice for marginalized artists and cartoonists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1717533382577-K8FTVXECKK0W76VIT7BC/GSL+headshot+horiz+%282%29.JPG Women's Stories/Women’s Empowerment - Annabelle Tometich Annabelle Tometich went from medical-school reject to line cook to journalist to author. She spent 18 years as a food writer and restaurant critic for The News-Press in her hometown of Fort Myers, Florida. Her first book is “The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony” (April 2024, Little Brown). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1718397218358-H6Q3SOG83VED49CP46IJ/Chloe-Jackman-Photography-Studio-Lifestyle-Photos-2021-94.jpg Women's Stories/Women’s Empowerment - Jamilah Pitts Jamilah Pitts is an author, educator, social entrepreneur, and wellness guide whose work centers the liberation, healing and holistic development of communities of the Global Majority. Jamilah has worked and served in various roles and spaces to promote racial justice and healing. Jamilah has served as a teacher, coach, dean, and as an Assistant Principal. She has worked in domestic and international educational spaces. Jamilah partners with schools, communities, universities and organizations to advance the work of racial, social and intersectional justice. https://www.pandelectures.com/work-power-labor daily 0.75 2026-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1718397218358-H6Q3SOG83VED49CP46IJ/Chloe-Jackman-Photography-Studio-Lifestyle-Photos-2021-94.jpg Work, Power, and Labor Speakers - Jamilah Pitts Jamilah Pitts is an author, educator, social entrepreneur, and wellness guide whose work centers the liberation, healing and holistic development of communities of the Global Majority. Jamilah has worked and served in various roles and spaces to promote racial justice and healing. Jamilah has served as a teacher, coach, dean, and as an Assistant Principal. She has worked in domestic and international educational spaces. Jamilah partners with schools, communities, universities and organizations to advance the work of racial, social and intersectional justice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1718397218358-H6Q3SOG83VED49CP46IJ/Chloe-Jackman-Photography-Studio-Lifestyle-Photos-2021-94.jpg Work, Power, and Labor Speakers - Jamilah Pitts Jamilah Pitts is an author, educator, social entrepreneur, and wellness guide whose work centers the liberation, healing and holistic development of communities of the Global Majority. Jamilah has worked and served in various roles and spaces to promote racial justice and healing. Jamilah has served as a teacher, coach, dean, and as an Assistant Principal. She has worked in domestic and international educational spaces. Jamilah partners with schools, communities, universities and organizations to advance the work of racial, social and intersectional justice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1721404481419-A3YGK7SDZAR79A6TCFFO/Lee+Hawkins+Headshot.jpg Work, Power, and Labor Speakers - Lee Hawkins Lee Hawkins is an American investigative journalist and author who was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2022. His most recent work documents the lives of Black American descendants of slavery and Jim Crow survivors, exploring the intergenerational impact of racial violence and racism on their families. His forthcoming book, I Am Nobody’s Slave: How Uncovering My Family’s History Set Me Free(HarperCollins, January 2025), is an introspective journey into his family history, tracing its roots to pre-Revolutionary America. Mr. Hawkins is the Series Creator, Producer, Writer of the 2024 longform podcast series What Happened in Alabama? for American Public Media/Minnesota Public Radio. The series was named a “Best Podcast” by The Guardianand Amazon/Audible and was “Editor’s Choice” among Amazon/Audible’s History genre podcasts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1714483134509-B2MATZACYFJZB0NS53YF/Davarian+Baldwin+Credit+Vision+Merge+Productions.jpg Work, Power, and Labor Speakers - Davarian L. Baldwin Dr. Davarian L. Baldwin (he/him) is an internationally recognized scholar, historian, and public advocate. He is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Founding Director of the Smart Cities Research Lab at Trinity College. A foremost expert on Black social movements and African American history, he is often called upon to consult on everything from the politics of reparations to the global impact of the Harlem Renaissance. His academic and political commitments have focused on global cities and particularly the diverse and marginalized communities that struggle to maintain sustainable lives in urban locales. Baldwin is the award-winning author of several books. In 2022, Baldwin was named a Freedom Scholar by the Marguerite Casey Foundation for his work in racial and economic justice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544391344048-WNVLJUEPNGNXK54OZ8N0/Arif+Anwar.jpg Work, Power, and Labor Speakers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/8c66bcbb-9c2e-4bfb-a361-8ae6170f15c2/Brando.png Work, Power, and Labor Speakers - Brando Simeo Starkey Brando Simeo Starkey is a writer and scholar. A graduate of Harvard Law School and a member of the New York Bar, he taught law at Villanova Law School and wrote for several years for ESPN’s The Undefeated (now Andscape). Born and raised in Cincinnati, he lives in Southern California with his wife and two sons. He has launched a newsletter, The Braveverse, about law, politics, and freedom from caste, at the TheBraveverse.com and a YouTube channel covering the same themes at https://www.youtube.com/@TheBraveverse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700945818928-YXH290FWLZSFU7VMR3T7/Headshot%2Bcropped.png Work, Power, and Labor Speakers - Omkari L. Williams Omkari L. Williams has worked as an actor, political consultant, and coach. Though she has an affinity for supporting activists who identify as introverted or highly sensitive, as she does, she welcomes all people into the world of micro activism, a sustainable path to changemaking. As a queer Black woman, she shares her own story of challenging injustice to empower others in making a difference in their communities. She is host of the popular podcast, Stepping into Truth, where she interviews activists from all walks of life. Her book, Micro Activism: How You Can Make a Difference in the World (Without a Bullhorn) is available from Storey Publishing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700946735002-RA6FQIKM7O824C6Y6RN8/PhotoCredit_1%2B_%2BDaJuana%2BJones.jpeg Work, Power, and Labor Speakers - Allissa V. Richardson “I help journalism remember its democratic roots—not just to report what happened, but to restore what has been lost. The future of this field must be reparative, reflective, and relentlessly human.” Allissa V. Richardson, PhD is an assistant professor of journalism at USC Annenberg. She researches how African Americans use mobile and social media to produce innovative forms of journalism — especially in times of crisis. Richardson is the author of Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones and the New Protest #Journalism (Oxford University Press, 2020). Richardson’s research is informed by her award-winning work as a journalism innovator. She is considered a pioneer in mobile journalism (MOJO), having launched the world’s first smartphone-only college newsrooms in 2010, in the U.S., Morocco and South Africa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544391362338-QMY8TUTTHFFUV7X97A44/Raquel_Cepeda_1.jpg Work, Power, and Labor Speakers - Raquel Cepada Born in Harlem to Dominican parents, Raquel is an award-winning journalist, cultural activist, podcaster, and documentary filmmaker who travels widely to speak to diverse audiences about Latina identity, social justice, gentrification and inequality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700945399345-XI3IX27LGS5DKCRIKFV2/MyishaCherry.jpeg Work, Power, and Labor Speakers - Myisha Cherry Myisha Cherry is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. She is also the Director of the Emotion and Society Lab. She speaks widely on the topics of emotions and race. Cherry’s books include UnMuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice, The Case for Rage: Why Anger is Essential to Anti-racist Struggle, and Failures of Forgiveness: What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better (released on September 19, 2023). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700945128482-24QPKXMQA66ZF76TVTVY/abulhawa.jpeg Work, Power, and Labor Speakers - Susan Abulhawa Susan Abulhawa speaks widely on the subjects of power, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the power of storytelling, particularly for marginalized communities. Her debut novel, Mornings in Jenin, is a multigenerational family epic spanning five countries and more than sixty years. With an unflinchingly look at the Palestinian question, it was translated into twenty-eight languages and became an international bestseller. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544391378392-ZAXIMWXSREM20IOUGL2R/Wendy+PerlmanJPG.JPG Work, Power, and Labor Speakers - Wendy Pearlman Wendy is a scholar of Middle East politics and author of the critically-acclaimed We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria, a mosaic of first-hand Syrian testimonials that chronicles the Syrian uprising, war and refugee crisis. Wendy lectures around the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544462743783-N0199GIT0OF3JE84XMSB/Anji+Anwar.jpeg Work, Power, and Labor Speakers - Arif Anwar Arif is an acclaimed Bangladeshi novelist who also has expertise in international development. He has worked on issues of poverty alleviation and public health in Bangladesh and other countries. His first novel, The Storm, spanned fifty years of Bangladeshi history to tell five intertwined love stories. He has given talks about his novel in Canada, the US and Bangladesh. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1760647449385-6WUEHY35NJL9WKINELW7/ANDREA%2BFREEMAN_Headshot.webp Work, Power, and Labor Speakers - Andrea Freeman Andrea Freeman is an author, law professor, and Fulbright scholar. She is a national and international expert on the intersections of race and food policy, health, and consumer credit. Much of her work explores her pioneering theory of food oppression, which examines how food law and policy, influenced by corporate interests, disproportionately harms marginalized communities. Freeman is the author of Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch (Metropolitan 2024), Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History and Winner of the James Beard Media Award in Food Issues and Advocacy, and Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice (Stanford University Press 2019), in addition to book chapters, law review articles, and op-eds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/45866f74-a2f8-4c5a-b0ae-43c6162f7547/Jezz+Chung+by+Jay+Blacks.jpg Work, Power, and Labor Speakers - Jezz Chung Jezz Chung is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores personal and collective change through the lens of race, gender, trauma, disability, and neurodivergence. They’ve been recognized internationally by Spain’s El País, Portugal’s Público, Vogue, Teen Vogue, Logo TV, and Made of Millions. You can listen to their podcast with Deem Journal titled Dreaming Different and read their debut collection of poetry, prose, and practices titled This Way to Change: A Gentle Guide to Personal Transformation and Collective Liberation. Jezz has lived in Georgia, Texas, California, and is now based in Brooklyn, New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/4e7708f8-38bd-41d6-929a-decdf54bd1a0/NOAH+GIANSIRACUSA+Headshot.jpeg Work, Power, and Labor Speakers - Noah Giansiracusa Noah Giansiracusa is an associate professor of mathematics at Bentley University (a business school near Boston), visiting scholar at Harvard, and co-host of the AI in Academia podcast. He is the 2026 recipient of a national communication award for "bringing mathematical ideas and information to nonmathematical audiences," an honor shared by past recipients including Nate Silver, Roger Penrose, and Martin Gardner. Noah has appeared on CNN live and BBC radio and written for Washington Post, Scientific American, TIME, Wired, Boston Globe, and others. His first book explores the algorithms impacting our information ecosystem, while his second book, Robin Hood Math, shows how people of all backgrounds can use math to help navigate life and take back control in a world dominated by algorithms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/76fcbf32-8a4d-42a5-aa21-26613ed42197/Kathryn+Hulick+Headshot.jpg Work, Power, and Labor Speakers - Kathryn Hulick Kathryn Hulick is a freelance journalist who covers AI and computing for Science News and Science News Explores. She's also the author of books for young people including The UFO Files (Quarto, 2025) and Welcome To The Future (Quarto, 2021), and Strange But True (Quarto, 2019). All help readers use critical thinking to explore science and our future. Hulick began her career with an adventure. She served two years in the Peace Corps in Kyrgyzstan, where she taught English and lived without a cell phone or the internet. Her favorite part of writing and speaking about science is getting to speak with researchers in many different fields. Her Substack is called Wow! Tech & Nature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1772814041356-VYQCRSA7IFVSJ20YKKUM/SafiyaUmojaNoble_Credit_Stella_Kallnina-1-scaled.jpg Work, Power, and Labor Speakers - Safiya U. Noble "We use these technologies thinking they’re democratic. But at the same time that the companies are optimizing for maximum profit, they're telling us that these systems are neutral, that they're reliable information resources. Nothing could be further from the truth." Safiya U. Noble is am internationally recognized voice in AI ethics. She specializes in the areas of public policy and algorithmic bias, but also addresses how AI will impact our future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544391377926-SYBAXCFX0XMNP45VZ6AC/Sherine+Hamdy.jpg Work, Power, and Labor Speakers - Sherine Hamdy An anthropologist and graphic novelist, Sherine speaks nationally and internationally on the role of comics as a teaching tool and on social justice and representation in comics. In addition to her acclaimed academic work, she is the co-author of the graphic novel Lissa and author of the forthcoming YA graphic novel Jabs, the story of a Muslim-American girl’s coming-of-age. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700945696442-KXOTRHZ7SAD31BDOBPQO/moezzi-2.jpeg Work, Power, and Labor Speakers - Melody Moezzi Melody speaks widely on issues of mental health, Iran, feminism, and Islam in America. Her books include the critically acclaimed memoir, Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life and War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims, which earned her a Georgia Author of the Year Award and a Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Honorable Mention. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700946211359-R7FSDSXKS1WGFC46ASYC/Priya%2BHuq1%2B%25281%2529.jpeg Work, Power, and Labor Speakers - Priya Huq Priya Huq is a Bangladeshi Texan cartoonist living in New York who speaks widely on issues related to the comics industry, art, race, culture, identity and their intersections. Her appearances include the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, Emerald City Comic Con, and New York Comic Con. In her talks, Priya focuses on practical advice for marginalized artists and cartoonists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700946414022-1CHDC8XRN6OZ4QKKNPSK/1-oreskes-claudio-cambon.png Work, Power, and Labor Speakers - Naomi Oreskes A world-renowned geologist, historian and public speaker, Naomi is a leading voice on the role of science in society and the reality of anthropogenic climate change. She is the co-author of the internationally bestselling Merchants of Doubt, and is a professor of the History of Science and an affiliated professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700946662686-KAEQQ94Z3LP7X4A5T197/Anji%2BAnwar.jpeg Work, Power, and Labor Speakers - Arif Anwar Arif Anwar is an author, professor, and international development professional and technology expert. His first novel, The Storm, spanning fifty years of Bangladeshi history to tell five intertwined love stories, was critically acclaimed by the New York Times and published in multiple languages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700946051779-PENBG612790EK7UGKPX6/FaylitaHicksPhotobyChristopherCardoza.jpeg Work, Power, and Labor Speakers - Faylita Hicks Faylita Hicks (she/they) is a queer Afro-Latinx writer, spoken word artist, and cultural strategist. With an appreciation for powerful narratives that lead to cultural shifts and community safety, Hicks works with justice-focused nonprofits, arts and literary organizations, and performance venues throughout the US to actively engage in anti-carceral liberation efforts through dynamic storytelling. Hicks is also the author of the critically-acclaimed debut poetry collection HoodWitch, a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700946847236-9ERGV8KSXWRVMV71X6T1/Stacey%2BRobinson.jpeg Work, Power, and Labor Speakers - Stacey Robinson Stacey is a professor, graphic designer, and illustrator of the acclaimed YA graphic novel I Am Alfonso Jones and co-illustrator, with John Jennings, of Prison Industrial Complex For Beginners. He is an assistant professor of graphic design at the University of Illinois. He lectures on Black comics, resistance and protest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700945905187-D7DTYPWTZUVTDUVC3SIZ/HafizahGeter110921_048BeowulfSheehan_ecopy%2B%281%29.jpeg Work, Power, and Labor Speakers - Hafizah Augustus Geter Hafizah Augustus Geter is a Nigerian-American poet, writer, and literary agent born in Zaria, Nigeria, and raised in Akron, Ohio, and Columbia, South Carolina. Her debut memoir, The Black Period: On Personhood, Race & Origin, won the 2023 PEN Open Book Award. Hafizah is also the author of the debut poetry collection Un-American, nominated for a 2021 NAACP Image Award, a finalist for the 2021 PEN Open Book Award, and longlisted for the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. https://www.pandelectures.com/poets-artists-gallery daily 0.75 2025-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700519313430-5LBBGLVVDZUL21IHJ136/FaylitaHicksPhotobyChristopherCardoza.jpeg Poets and Artists - Faylita Hicks Faylita Hicks (she/they) is a queer Afro-Latinx writer, spoken word artist, and cultural strategist. With an appreciation for powerful narratives that lead to cultural shifts and community safety, Hicks works with justice-focused nonprofits, arts and literary organizations, and performance venues throughout the US to actively engage in anti-carceral liberation efforts through dynamic storytelling. Hicks is also the author of the critically-acclaimed debut poetry collection HoodWitch, a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700519313430-5LBBGLVVDZUL21IHJ136/FaylitaHicksPhotobyChristopherCardoza.jpeg Poets and Artists - Faylita Hicks Faylita Hicks (she/they) is a queer Afro-Latinx writer, spoken word artist, and cultural strategist. With an appreciation for powerful narratives that lead to cultural shifts and community safety, Hicks works with justice-focused nonprofits, arts and literary organizations, and performance venues throughout the US to actively engage in anti-carceral liberation efforts through dynamic storytelling. Hicks is also the author of the critically-acclaimed debut poetry collection HoodWitch, a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1745267511783-JXSYHMKRRFO2GXGW3KJ5/image001.jpeg Poets and Artists - Tony Keith Jr. Anthony R. Keith, Jr., Ph.D. (Tony) is a Black, gay spoken word artist, poet, and Hip-Hop educator. His debut, How the Boogeyman Became a Poet, is a powerful YA memoir in verse, tracing his journey from being a closeted gay Black teen battling poverty, racism, and homophobia to becoming an openly gay first-generation college student who finds freedom in poetry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1743193128764-S7UOO1O5CIQH4P2XHB76/GM+PHOTO+2_2024.jpg Poets and Artists - Gloria Muñoz Gloriais a Colombian American writer, translator, and advocate for multilingual literacy. She is the author of This is the Year, Your Biome Has Found You, and Danzirly, which won the Ambroggio Prize and the Gold Medal Florida Book Award. Her other honors include an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, Hedgebrook Fellowship, being a Macondista, Highlights Foundation’s Diverse Verse Fellowship, Lumina’s Multilingual Writing Award, and a part of Las Musas. She is proud to be St. Pete's first Latina poet laureate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1743193986251-BLXBWRI6P1UUI9W4ZAXK/HafizahGeter110921_048BeowulfSheehan_ecopy%2B%281%29.jpg Poets and Artists - Hafizah Augustus Geter Hafizah Augustus Geter is a Nigerian-American poet, writer, and literary agent born in Zaria, Nigeria, and raised in Akron, Ohio, and Columbia, South Carolina. Her debut memoir, The Black Period: On Personhood, Race & Origin, (Random House, 2022) won the 2023 PEN Open Book Award, the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Nonfiction in addition to being a 2023 Chautauqua Prize Finalist, a New Yorker Magazine Best Book of 2022, a Good Morning America Anticipated Book, and an Amazon's Best of the Month Editor's Pick. Kiese Laymon writes, "The Black Period: On Personhood, Race & Origin is an absolutely stunning literary experience. If our creases could croon and our aches could wail, The Black Period is what it might sound like. Hafizah Augustus Geter has written a classic." Called "one of 2020's buzziest poets" by Marie Claire, Hafizah is also the author of the debut poetry collection Un-American from Wesleyan University Press (September 2020), nominated for a 2021 NAACP Image Award, a finalist for the 2021 PEN Open Book Award, longlisted for the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize, and which received a Starred Review from Publisher's Weekly. Roxane Gay calls the poems "incisive" and "devastating." Claudia Rankine calls UN-AMERICAN a "gorgeous debut" that "troubles and reshapes notions of belonging." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1743193839392-ZM81X0I8IMDOA28AH68H/abulhawa+%281%29.jpg Poets and Artists - Susan Abulhawa “I wrote poetry before I wrote anything else,” Susan Abulhawa. My Voice Sought the Wind is the poetry collection following her highly acclaimed novel, Mornings in Jenin, which has been translated into 30 languages since it was published in 2010. My Voice Sought the Wind represents five years of Abulhawa’s best poems on the timeless themes of love, loss, identity, and family, brought to life through her vivid observations and intimate personal reflections. She writes from her own experience, with a style that is romantic, but tinged with disillusionment, often a bit sad and always introspective. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1702330239039-HGMAQPLBZP45JXHDNXQK/jenjphotoshinebright-5124.jpeg Poets and Artists - Danyel Smith Award-winning journalist Danyel Smith is author of the critically-acclaimed Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop (One World / Penguin Random House, April 2022). Danyel is also creator/host of the popular Black Girl Songbook, a podcast that centers the sounds and stories of black women (Spotify Original). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1743193577954-1W1IQJLZPRMW7FDF8KHR/Priya%2BHuq1.jpg Poets and Artists - Priya Huq Priya Huq is a Bangladeshi Texan cartoonist living in New York who speaks widely on issues related to the comics industry, art, race, culture, identity and their intersections. Her appearances include the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, Emerald City Comic Con, and New York Comic Con. In her talks, Priya focuses on practical advice for marginalized artists and cartoonists. Audiences will learn how trauma affects an artist's brain and techniques for creating after trauma. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1702330153398-YZXVZHJDU4W2H8TRN18G/Joel-Christian-Gill-600x600-1-600x600.jpeg Poets and Artists - Joel Christian Gill Joel Christian Gill is the Inaugural Chair of Boston University’s Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Visual Narrative and Associate Professor in the CFA School of Visual Arts. He is also a cartoonist and historian who speaks nationally on the importance of sharing stories. He is the author of the acclaimed memoir Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence, cited as one of the best graphic novels of 2020 by The New York Times and for which he was awarded the 2021 Cartoonist Studio Prize. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1743193343672-P1ITEM3C7VXLC5SG6UZ1/JJHEADSHOThz+%281%29.jpg Poets and Artists - John Jennings John Jennings is a professor, author, graphic novelist, curator, Harvard Fellow, New York Times Bestseller, 2018 Eisner Winner, and winner of the Hugo Award for his co-adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s dystopian novel The Parable of the Sower. As Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside (UCR), Jennings examines the visual culture of race in various media forms including film, illustrated fiction, and comics and graphic novels. He is also the director of Abrams ComicArts imprint Megascope, which publishes graphic novels focused on the experiences of people of color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544462456994-AXEUZYRZWV8DMKIU5Q8D/Raquel_Cepeda_1.jpg Poets and Artists - Raquel Cepada Born in Harlem to Dominican parents, Raquel is an award-winning journalist, cultural activist, podcaster, and documentary filmmaker who travels widely to speak to diverse audiences about Latina identity, social justice, gentrification and inequality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1743193442122-RWP2ZM04RN0M8EAW0S6W/Author%2Band%2BSpeaker%2BBridgett%2BM.%2BDavis%2BHeadshot%2Bby%2BNina%2BSubin%2BPhotography.jpg Poets and Artists - Bridgett M. Davis Bridgett M. Davis (pronounced Brih-jet) is the author of the memoir Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy, published by Harper Books in spring 2025. Davis is also the writer and director of the 1998 award-winning feature film Naked Acts, newly restored by Milestone Films and released in 2024 to critical acclaim, and screening in theaters across the US as well as international venues. Davis is Professor Emerita in the Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center, where she taught creative, narrative and film writing. https://www.pandelectures.com/new-speaker-books-gallery daily 0.75 2026-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1769534206100-HX30BK3DUICXCSVIOCGZ/Main+Street+book+cover.jpeg NEW SPEAKER BOOKS - MAIN STREET: A Community Story About Redlining A girl named Olivia learns how the history of redlining has affected her neighborhood in this intergenerational picture book about racism, community action, and resilience by New York Times bestselling authors Britt Hawthorne and Tiffany Jewell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1769534206100-HX30BK3DUICXCSVIOCGZ/Main+Street+book+cover.jpeg NEW SPEAKER BOOKS - MAIN STREET: A Community Story About Redlining A girl named Olivia learns how the history of redlining has affected her neighborhood in this intergenerational picture book about racism, community action, and resilience by New York Times bestselling authors Britt Hawthorne and Tiffany Jewell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/4bdad9f5-8237-41c8-a040-9a9e58aa592f/One+Man%27s+Freedom+cover.png NEW SPEAKER BOOKS - ONE MAN'S FREEDOM: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle over an American Ideal From the acclaimed author of The Fire Is upon Us, the dramatic untold story of Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr.’s decade-long clash over the meaning of freedom—and how their conflicting visions still divide American politics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1759451251720-DN9O9HEWQ0M880IKMS4A/The+UFO+Files+Book+Cover.jpg NEW SPEAKER BOOKS - THE UFO FILES: Notes on an Alien Encounter The UFO Files are the recently de-classified notes on a moment that captivates humanity: the arrival of an alien spacecraft on Planet Earth. The UFO Files is not just a compelling sci-fi story or a primer on core STEM subjects—it's both at once! Above all, it is a celebration of scientific curiosity, tolerance, and the awe that comes when we open our minds to the stars and wonder whether we are not alone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1746217699087-QLIB28AR5R2NHQYW8RBY/Clodia+of+Rome.jpg NEW SPEAKER BOOKS - CLODIA OF ROME BY DOUGLAS BOIN A thrilling new history of the late Roman Republic, told through one woman’s quest for justice. One of Rome’s most powerful women, Clodia has been maligned over two thousand years as a promiscuous, husband-murdering harlot—thanks to her starring role in one of Cicero’s most famous speeches in the Forum. But Cicero was lying, in defense of his own property and interests. Like so many women libeled or erased from history, Clodia had a life that was much more interesting, complex, and nuanced than the corrupted version passed down through generations… And her story sheds light on what is happening in the United States today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1754603132577-T5K17TUPNQ6YFS1FWQTX/ROBIN+HOOD+MATH+Jacket.jpg NEW SPEAKER BOOKS - ROBIN HOOD MATH BY NOAH GIANSIRACUSA How the rich and powerful use math to exploit you, and what you can do to beat them at their own game… Everything we do today is recorded as data that’s sold to the highest bidder. Plugging our personal data into impersonal algorithms has made government agencies more efficient and tech companies more profitable. But all this comes at a price. It’s easy to feel like an insignificant number in a world of number crunchers who care more about their bottom line than your humanity. It’s time to flip the equation, turning math into an empowering tool for the rest of us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1752084552375-FC1YJV2L4ZPSC14BZB4W/Book+image+%281%29.jpeg NEW SPEAKER BOOKS - THEIR ACCOMPLICES WORE ROBES BY BRANDO SIMEO STARKEY A magisterial new history of the role of the Supreme Court as an ally in implementing and preserving a racial caste system in America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1748908052898-N7SG1XJGSZM1TY4B21N0/Parable+of+the+talents.jpg NEW SPEAKER BOOKS - PARABLE OF THE TALENTS: A Graphic Novel Adaptation Illustrated by JOHN JENNINGS This gripping graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s groundbreaking dystopian novel stands beside the acclaimed previous graphic novel adaptations, Kindred, a #1 New York Times bestseller, and Parable of the Sower, winner of the Hugo Award https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1727891939504-F2MA2NI39TENWTPKRRGM/Stop+Me+If+You%27ve+Heard+This+One+book+cover.jpeg NEW SPEAKER BOOKS - STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE BY KRISTEN ARNETT Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One is a masterpiece of comedic fiction that asks big questions about art and performance, friendship and community, and the importance of timing in jokes and in life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1738262464373-2W0AW77TX278ZU9PIKNL/Book+Cover+Love+Rita.jpg NEW SPEAKER BOOKS - LOVE, RITA BY BRIDGETT DAVIS Love, Rita is a brave and beautiful homage that not only celebrates the special, complex bond of sisterhood but also reveals what it is to live, and die, as a Black woman in America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1742245203857-X8RG1UBWP7MCKXO1ITG9/Sam%2BQuionnes.jpg NEW SPEAKER BOOKS - THIS IS THE YEAR BY GLORIA MUNOZ This dazzling YA cli-fi written in prose and verse will speak to any reader struggling with the state of our world and how to understand their place in it. Told in gripping prose interspersed with poems from Juli’s writing journal, this genre-bending novel explores themes of immigration, climate justice, grief, and the power of communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1727892528813-1WN1YN11QZX6IEPKAA2O/Capture.PNG NEW SPEAKER BOOKS - KNUCKLEHEAD BY TONY KEITH JR. While society often assigns the label “knucklehead” to kids with attitude problems, this brilliant and electric poetry collection by spoken word poet and hip-hop educator Tony Keith Jr. subverts that narrow way of thinking and empathizes with young people who are misunderstood and unheard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1745453846064-7NFJNYMW7583SOD1N4QA/1-oreskes-claudio-cambon.jpg NEW SPEAKER BOOKS - I AM NOBODY'S SLAVE BY LEE HAWKINS A 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist and former Wall Street Journal writer exhaustively examines his family’s legacy of post-enslavement trauma and resilience, in this riveting memoir—a soulful, shocking, and spellbinding read https://www.pandelectures.com/technology-ai daily 0.75 2026-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1772813771944-0K550V19GPCR4YCZH23N/SafiyaNobleHeadshot.jpg AI, Technology, and The Human Future - Safiya U. Noble "We use these technologies thinking they’re democratic. But at the same time that the companies are optimizing for maximum profit, they're telling us that these systems are neutral, that they're reliable information resources. Nothing could be further from the truth." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1581708595203-511X7ZQCQOLX563A13OD/claudio-cambon.jpg AI, Technology, and The Human Future - Naomi Oreskes Naomi Oreskes is a leading voice on the role of science in society and the reality of anthropogenic climate change. In her talks and keynote speeches, she draws on both scientific research and historical fact to show audiences why science can be trusted; how the campaign to deny climate change was an organized and systematic effort; and how to combat climate change denial while empowering audiences to take action. A professor of the History of Science and an affiliated professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University, she is the co-author of the internationally bestselling Merchants of Doubt, as well as The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View From the Future and the forthcoming The Magic of the Marketplace: The True History of a False Idea (Bloomsbury Press, 2020) for which she and co-author Erik Conway received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1772813771944-0K550V19GPCR4YCZH23N/SafiyaNobleHeadshot.jpg AI, Technology, and The Human Future - Safiya U. Noble "We use these technologies thinking they’re democratic. But at the same time that the companies are optimizing for maximum profit, they're telling us that these systems are neutral, that they're reliable information resources. Nothing could be further from the truth." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/43871440-9335-4ba0-a40b-7c98276a4e0e/headshot+2024.JPG AI, Technology, and The Human Future - Tiera Tanksley Dr. Tiera Tanksley is a Senior Researcher whose work examines the socioemotional, mental health and academic impacts of digital and artificially intelligent technologies on Black youth. Her work examines anti-Blackness as the “default setting” of schools and school-based technologies, including GenAI chatbots, facial recognition systems, weapons detection systems, and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700076303267-8V8HY3KGR10W56H02518/PhotoCredit_1%2B_%2BDaJuana%2BJones.jpeg AI, Technology, and The Human Future - Allissa V. Richardson “I build technologies that remember—so the world can’t forget. Each line of code holds a testimony, each archive a reckoning. My work gathers what injustice tried to erase, and reimagines what justice has yet to be.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/458e554d-1e5f-4a51-ae13-76308ec8a1c9/Siva.PNG AI, Technology, and The Human Future - Siva Vaidhyanathan “My top priority today is to get the public to understand that the technologies that arrive in our lives are not given. We get to resist, and we get to insist that they be better to us and better for us.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/0e03ffdb-e41b-4a03-aaf2-ed7b8dc0950a/NOAH+GIANSIRACUSA+Headshot.jpeg AI, Technology, and The Human Future - Noah Giansiracusa "Noah’s contribution caused the scales to fall from my eyes and to wonder if I had finally – after much searching – found the elixir of media literacy." —Janette Ballard, award-winning documentary film director and media literacy consultant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/76fcbf32-8a4d-42a5-aa21-26613ed42197/Kathryn+Hulick+Headshot.jpg AI, Technology, and The Human Future - Kathryn Hulick "We can only prepare for a future that we've considered in advance." “The future isn’t something that happens to us. We create it. We created AI, and we’re going to decide how we want to use it.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1576012500726-4TKPF4QWR2T7XO1K0Y43/doug+boin.jpg AI, Technology, and The Human Future - Doug Boin What can Rome teach us about the rise of artifical intelligence? Quite a lot actually! Acclaimed historian, archeologist, and author Doug Boin provides a perspective on AI at the intersection of education, technology, and storytelling based on our collective history and decades of innovative classroom strategies that support the cultivation of critical thinking and creativity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1760647449385-6WUEHY35NJL9WKINELW7/Andrea%2BFreeman%2Bon%2BABC%2BNews.jpg AI, Technology, and The Human Future - Andrea Freeman Andrea Freeman is a national and international expert on the intersections of race and food policy, health, and consumer credit. An acclaimed author of two books, she is currently at work on a new project about the intersection of consumer credit, policy, and technology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1696361649031-WCFX7RDW1DYR7JYV9K2X/image.jpg AI, Technology, and The Human Future - Chris Gilliard Dr. Chris Gilliard is a writer, professor and speaker. His scholarship concentrates on digital privacy, and the intersections of race, class, and technology. He is an advocate for critical and equity-focused approaches to tech in education. He is currently a Just Tech Fellow at the Social Science Research Council. His work has been featured in The Chronicle of Higher Ed, EDUCAUSE Review, Fast Company, Vice, Wired and The Atlantic. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/5d339c81de51ea0001d3cc65/65551ac3cba12e50c6f762a9/1762805327618/ AI, Technology, and The Human Future - Alondra Nelson Alondra Nelson is president of the Social Science Research Council and the Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. An award-winning author, Nelson has published widely-acclaimed books and articles exploring science, technology, medicine, and social inequality, including most recently The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome. Her essays, reviews, and commentary have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Science, Le Nouvel Observateur, The Boston Globe, Nature, and on National Public Radio, the New Yorker Radio Hour, and PBS Newshour, among other venues. In her talks and research, Nelson addresses the social implications of new technologies, including artificial intelligence, big data, and human gene-editing. She was formerly deputy assistant to President Joe Biden and acting director at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. https://www.pandelectures.com/pande-lectures-speakers-1 daily 0.75 2026-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1576011948751-OOOIW0VDL1IHEWG1XEC8/abulhawa.jpg Pande Lectures Speakers - SUSAN ABULHAWA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1576011948751-OOOIW0VDL1IHEWG1XEC8/abulhawa.jpg Pande Lectures Speakers - SUSAN ABULHAWA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1576004600602-RJ5415F9DJYDYX9MH32O/Anji+Anwar.jpeg Pande Lectures Speakers - ARIF ANWAR TAG LINE HERE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1715715548209-2NLHS93Q4V5ML56YV2XG/ARNETT+headshot+color+2017.JPG Pande Lectures Speakers - KRISTEN ARNETT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1714483134509-B2MATZACYFJZB0NS53YF/image-asset.jpeg Pande Lectures Speakers - DAVARIAN L. BALDWIN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/ea11bd79-9ea7-4d8d-a517-c4b8dd4e233e/Screenshot+2024-11-25+at+2.49.07%E2%80%AFPM.png Pande Lectures Speakers - TREVOR BALDWIN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1576793779288-FKKVGTJ16NWCZYKQ1NW3/madison-smartt-bell_crop.jpg Pande Lectures Speakers - MADISON SMARTT BELL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1576012500726-4TKPF4QWR2T7XO1K0Y43/doug+boin.jpg Pande Lectures Speakers - DOUG BOIN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1576793688986-AKX8ZMSLU2KZJFBQYAQM/Kinitra+D.+Brooks.PNG Pande Lectures Speakers - KINITRA D. BROOKS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1670360031741-3X48QZ6TCXFVYB4EKKO6/Jasmine+Brown+author+photo+pc+Marcy+Brown.jpeg Pande Lectures Speakers - JASMINE BROWN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1582057917562-F7YS1FO0I9I7ZVZEPWJV/Nicholas+Buccola.jpg Pande Lectures Speakers - NICHOLAS BUCCOLA Nicholas Buccola is a writer, lecturer, and teacher who specializes in the area of American political thought. He is the author of The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America (Princeton University, 2019) and The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty (New York University Press, 2012). He is the editor of The Essential Douglass: Writings and Speeches (Hackett, 2016) and Abraham Lincoln and Liberal Democracy (University Press of Kansas, 2016). He is at work on a new book about the contested meaning of freedom in the American civil rights and conservative movements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1576004639268-NR9M0SLJVRY9UR1NQA9Y/Raquel_Cepeda_2HR.jpg Pande Lectures Speakers - RAQUEL CEPEDA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1690917933179-C8NA2GBFXMOXPZFB66OA/image-asset.jpeg Pande Lectures Speakers - MYISHA CHERRY Myisha Cherry is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. She is also the Director of the Emotion and Society Lab. Her research is primarily concerned with the role of emotions and attitudes in public life. Cherry’s books include UnMuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice (Oxford University Press) and, co-edited with Owen Flanagan, The Moral Psychology of Anger (Rowman & Littlefield). Her latest book is The Case for Rage: Why Anger is Essential to Anti-racist Struggle published by Oxford University Press. Failures of Forgiveness: What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better will be released by Princeton University Press on September 19, 2023. Her work on emotions and race has appeared in The Atlantic, Boston Review, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Huffington Post, WomanKind, and New Philosopher Magazine. Cherry is also the host of the UnMute Podcast, where she interviews philosophers about the social and political issues of our day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/4902ee1e-ca9c-4d47-927c-18b676378362/Jezz+Chung+headshot+2024+photo+by+Mary+Kang.jpg Pande Lectures Speakers - JEZZ CHUNG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1738265064927-8L3ONA6Z7TN6VHDHS80A/Bridgett+DavisAuthorPhoto_book_credit_NinaSubin.jpg Pande Lectures Speakers - BRIDGETT M. 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WILLIAMS https://www.pandelectures.com/home daily 1.0 2026-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1773679941595-FNE2UWFDCXJK0VG4L9P5/image-asset.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1581702111559-E0THKF3XYOOH7QHZC4N1/brownstones.jpg Home - Our Mission is to bring you the authors, thinkers and activists whose work and ideas help us understand the world we live in and how we might participate in making it better https://www.pandelectures.com/community-building-speakers-gallery daily 0.75 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1708722022383-1G1BCXJC9Y157AXC2LD4/image-asset.png Community Building and Belonging - Omkari L. Williams Omkari Williams is the author of Micro Activism: How You Can Make a Difference in the World (Without a Bullhorn). 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Though she has an affinity for supporting activists who identify as introverted or highly sensitive, as she does, she welcomes all people into the world of micro activism, a sustainable path to changemaking. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/65d906a5aa163a24b7452726/65d906b8892cf21c2ecea538/1750168615995/ Community Building and Belonging https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/45866f74-a2f8-4c5a-b0ae-43c6162f7547/Jezz+Chung+by+Jay+Blacks.jpg Community Building and Belonging - Jezz Chung “More often than not conversations about autism are led by people who parent autistic children or care for an autistic person in their life. While these are important pathways to collective understanding, autistic people themselves can no longer afford to be left out of the discourse.” Jezz Chung is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores personal and collective change through the lens of race, gender, trauma, disability, and neurodivergence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763048766085-UK045EOROY2YLJ31WKCN/image-asset.png Community Building and Belonging - Trevor Baldwin Trevor Baldwin was born, raised and currently lives in New York City. His father Wilmer, brother of James Baldwin, taught guitar at Harlem School of the Arts and his mother Helen was a CUNY professor and the Executive Director of Minisink Townhouse and Camp. Surrounded by arts and infused with education as a cultural foundation, Trevor is an offspring of Harlem's rich heritage. A graduate of The Fieldston School, Morehouse College and New York Film Academy, Trevor works in public relations. He is also a screenwriter and producer with multiple projects in development. In 2014, for his uncle’s 90th anniversary, Trevor coordinated the street naming of "James Baldwin Place" on the Harlem block where Uncle Jimmy and all his siblings attended elementary school. He later began working with his Godmother’s Dr. Maya Angelou estate on media-related properties such as the PBS documentary "Maya Angelou and Still I Rise." Working with the estates of two literary icons has made him a natural purveyor of legacy as their inspirational lives and contributions have become increasingly more relevant in today's society. In honor of his uncle's centennial and in conjunction with Penguin Random House, he executive produced the Baldwin 100 Podcast, a series examining the author’s work and personal life in discussion with luminary guests such as Eddie Glaude, Jr., Roxanne Gay and Billy Dee Williams. Current projects include guiding the Baldwin 101 initiative, a call to return to James Baldwin’s core works and share their continued resonance with the world, which soft launched in 2025. Trevor recently founded Baldwin United, a family-operated non-profit family Collective Action Fund created to promote their uncle's legacy through art, literacy and social justice. He enjoys cultivating community leadership, advocating for the literary arts, and instilling the tenants of cultural stewardship in others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763049744096-M7XPRY3WDAZI2X844HVU/Wendy%252BPearlman%252BHeadshot.jpg Community Building and Belonging - Wendy Pearlman Dr. Wendy Pearlman is a scholar of Middle East politics and author of the critically-acclaimed We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria, a breath-taking mosaic of first-hand Syrian testimonials that chronicles the Syrian uprising, war and refugee crisis. Drawn from hundreds of interviews with displaced Syrians, the book was longlisted for the American Library Association’s Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. We Crossed a Bridge concludes with the flight of millions of refugees. Wendy’s follow-up book, The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora (2024), takes this exodus as its point of departure. Featuring a completely new cast of subjects now on five continents, it presents gripping testimonials about losing home, searching for home, and forging new understandings of home itself. Recasting “refugee crises” as diaspora-making, The Home I Worked to Make challenges readers to grapple with the hard-won wisdom of those who survive war and to see, with fresh eyes, what home means in their own lives. Wendy earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University, an MA from Georgetown University, and a BA from Brown University and is currently a Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. Frequently invited to give guest lectures on the Middle East, Wendy is a compelling speaker who has delivered hundreds of talks on four continents, making the most complex topics accessible to any audience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1743194358622-AEDVTBPUCKE16T4RL6ZN/image-asset.jpeg Community Building and Belonging - Gloria Muñoz Gloria is a Colombian American writer, translator, and advocate for multilingual literacy. She is the author of This is the Year, Your Biome Has Found You, and Danzirly, which won the Ambroggio Prize and the Gold Medal Florida Book Award. Her other honors include an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, Hedgebrook Fellowship, being a Macondista, Highlights Foundation’s Diverse Verse Fellowship, Lumina’s Multilingual Writing Award, and a part of Las Musas. She is proud to be St. Pete's first Latina poet laureate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1745267363539-4SQL64Q5QD2ZRXHO2F4O/image001.jpeg Community Building and Belonging - Tony Keith Jr. Anthony R. Keith, Jr., Ph.D. (Tony) is a Black, gay spoken word artist, poet, and Hip-Hop educator. His debut, How the Boogeyman Became a Poet, is a powerful YA memoir in verse, tracing his journey from being a closeted gay Black teen battling poverty, racism, and homophobia to becoming an openly gay first-generation college student who finds freedom in poetry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1718397218358-H6Q3SOG83VED49CP46IJ/Chloe-Jackman-Photography-Studio-Lifestyle-Photos-2021-94.jpg Community Building and Belonging - Jamilah Pitts Jamilah Pitts is an author, educator, social entrepreneur, and wellness guide whose work centers the liberation, healing and holistic development of communities of the Global Majority. 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Cherry’s books include UnMuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice, The Case for Rage: Why Anger is Essential to Anti-racist Struggle, and Failures of Forgiveness: What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better (released on September 19, 2023). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1708722969529-HZXLB1L779CB7GP5A3I9/image-asset.jpeg Community Building and Belonging - Tiffany Jewell Tiffany Jewell is a Black biracial writer, twin sister, first generation American, cisgender mama, anti-bias antiracist (ABAR) educator, and consultant. She is the author of the #1 New York Times and #1 Indie Bestseller, This Book Is Anti-Racist, a book for young folks and everyone to wake up, take action, and do the work of becoming antiracist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1714483134509-B2MATZACYFJZB0NS53YF/Davarian+Baldwin+Credit+Vision+Merge+Productions.jpg Community Building and Belonging - Davarian L. Baldwin Dr. Davarian L. Baldwin (he/him) is an internationally recognized scholar, historian, and public advocate. He is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Founding Director of the Smart Cities Research Lab at Trinity College. In 2022, Baldwin was named a Freedom Scholar by the Marguerite Casey Foundation for his work in racial and economic justice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1708722743791-UNMKOW1EIIKNW4K45GGD/Raquel_Cepeda_1.jpeg Community Building and Belonging - Raquel Cepeda Born in Harlem to Dominican parents, Raquel Cepeda is an award-winning journalist, cultural activist, podcaster, documentary filmmaker, and author. She travels widely to speak to audiences about identity, inequality, and rethinking the “American Dream.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1721404481419-A3YGK7SDZAR79A6TCFFO/image-asset.jpeg Community Building and Belonging - Lee Hawkins "My job isn’t to dwell in the past—it’s to present the truth of it, connect it to today, and offer people a path forward that is honest, healing, and full of promise." Lee Hawkins is an American investigative journalist and author who was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2022. He is the author of I Am Nobody’s Slave: How Uncovering My Family’s History Set Me Free (HarperCollins, January 2025), a critically acclaimed memoir that traces 400 years of his Black American family’s history through slavery, Jim Crow apartheid, and the intergenerational trauma that followed. 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Butler’s dystopian novel The Parable of the Sower. As Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside (UCR), Jennings examines the visual culture of race in various media forms including film, illustrated fiction, and comics and graphic novels. He is also the director of Abrams ComicArts imprint Megascope, which publishes graphic novels focused on the experiences of people of color. He speaks widely on representation, cultural activism, and community narratives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1708723278250-54FOAK5D7NDD3C12C7HS/image-asset.jpeg Community Building and Belonging - Amrita Myers Amrita is an award-winning historian, journalist, activist and commentator whose work examines the intersections of race, gender, power, and freedom, specifically focusing on the lives of enslaved and free black women. Her latest book, The Vice President’s Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn (Ferris & Ferris, 2023) confronts historical erasure and provides a framework for healing. Dr. Myers regularly provides talks and professional development workshops to community organizers and other groups. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1708723043883-OMPET9S6W6N3A7ZD9REL/image-asset.png Community Building and Belonging - Britt Hawthorne Britt Hawthorne (they/she) is the author of the highly-anticipated, New York Times Bestseller, Raising Antiracist Children: A Practical Parenting Guide (Simon Element, 2022). Britt is also an antiracist educator, teacher, speaker, visionary, and advocate committed to raising a generation of antiracist children by centering families of the global majority and fostering equitable learning environments for students and children of all ages and backgrounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763046176643-1UUP7UZJT3VOJ9F1R4TT/AllisaVRichardson_Headshot_PhotoCredit_1%252B_%252BDaJuana%252BJones.jpg Community Building and Belonging - Allissa V. Richardson “I build technologies that remember—so the world can’t forget. Each line of code holds a testimony, each archive a reckoning. My work gathers what injustice tried to erase, and reimagines what justice has yet to be.” Dr. Allissa V. Richardson is an award-winning journalist, author, and associate professor at USC Annenberg. She founded the Charlotta Bass Journalism & Justice Lab, where she leads the Second Draft Project—an AI-powered oral history initiative preserving the voices of those impacted by police violence. The three-time Harvard Fellow is the author of Bearing Witness While Black and the forthcoming Canceled (MIT Press). Her work explores reparative journalism, Black witnessing, and the ethics of emerging technologies in media. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1708723219741-5QENBYPPO21LH1CS02UU/image-asset.jpeg Community Building and Belonging - Joel Christian Gill Joel Christian Gill is the Inaugural Chair of Boston University’s Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Visual Narrative and Associate Professor in the CFA School of Visual Arts. He is also a cartoonist and historian who speaks nationally on the importance of sharing stories. He is the author of the acclaimed memoir Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence, cited as one of the best graphic novels of 2020 by The New York Times and for which he was awarded the 2021 Cartoonist Studio Prize. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/458e554d-1e5f-4a51-ae13-76308ec8a1c9/image-asset.jpeg Community Building and Belonging - Siva Vaidhyanathan Siva Vaidhyanathan speaks on the impact of digitalization on society and democracy. In his speeches, he encourages audiences to consider how technological advances like artificial intelligence, corporations like Google and algorithmic social media platforms shape the way we think and what we can do to foster a new Internet ecosystem designed to benefit the whole world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1721056208375-E9J27028PQHP0LXLQVFE/SafiyaNobleHeadshot.jpeg Community Building and Belonging - Safiya Noble Dr. Safiya U. Noble is the David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of Gender Studies, African American Studies, and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is the Director of the Center on Resilience & Digital Justice and Co-Director of the Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power at the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). Dr. Noble is the author of the best-selling book Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. In 2021, she was recognized as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow for her ground-breaking work on algorithmic discrimination. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1708723374924-UTEO7YDQ418HEMJ0VOCK/image-asset.jpeg Community Building and Belonging - Faylita Hicks Faylita Hicks (she/they) is a queer Afro-Latinx writer, spoken word artist, and cultural strategist. With an appreciation for powerful narratives that lead to cultural shifts and community safety, Hicks works with justice-focused nonprofits, arts and literary organizations, and performance venues throughout the US to actively engage in anti-carceral liberation efforts through dynamic storytelling. Hicks is also the author of the critically-acclaimed debut poetry collection HoodWitch, a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1708723984310-W9ZHBTGD4LFNGGTBRBGL/jenjphotoshinebright-5124.jpeg Community Building and Belonging - Danyel Smith From VIBE editor-in-chief to Stanford Fellow to the New York Times —decode culture with America's most astute pop chronicler. Award-winning journalist Danyel Smith is author of the critically-acclaimed Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop (One World / Penguin Random House, April 2022). Danyel is also creator/host of the popular Black Girl Songbook, a podcast that centers the sounds and stories of black women (Spotify Original). https://www.pandelectures.com/identity-diaspora-1 daily 0.75 2025-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1743194358622-AEDVTBPUCKE16T4RL6ZN/GM+PHOTO+2_2024.jpg Identity & Diaspora - Gloria Muñoz Gloria is a Colombian American writer, translator, and advocate for multilingual literacy. She is the author of This is the Year, Your Biome Has Found You, and Danzirly, which won the Ambroggio Prize and the Gold Medal Florida Book Award. Her other honors include an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, Hedgebrook Fellowship, being a Macondista, Highlights Foundation’s Diverse Verse Fellowship, Lumina’s Multilingual Writing Award, and a part of Las Musas. She is proud to be St. Pete's first Latina poet laureate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1743194358622-AEDVTBPUCKE16T4RL6ZN/GM+PHOTO+2_2024.jpg Identity & Diaspora - Gloria Muñoz Gloria is a Colombian American writer, translator, and advocate for multilingual literacy. She is the author of This is the Year, Your Biome Has Found You, and Danzirly, which won the Ambroggio Prize and the Gold Medal Florida Book Award. Her other honors include an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, Hedgebrook Fellowship, being a Macondista, Highlights Foundation’s Diverse Verse Fellowship, Lumina’s Multilingual Writing Award, and a part of Las Musas. She is proud to be St. Pete's first Latina poet laureate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1719601650766-DU2A0F0ULOK19IN947W1/Annabelle%2BTometich%2Bheadshot%2Bvert.jpg Identity & Diaspora - Annabelle Tometich Annabelle Tometich went from medical-school reject to line cook to journalist to author. She spent 18 years as a food writer and restaurant critic for The News-Press in her hometown of Fort Myers, Florida. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1719601499222-FGWMB8G6XMDJ16R3986I/Wendy%2BPearlman%2BHeadshot.jpeg Identity & Diaspora - Wendy Pearlman Dr. Wendy Pearlman (she/her) is a scholar of Middle East politics and author of the critically-acclaimed We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria, a breath-taking mosaic of first-hand Syrian testimonials that chronicles the Syrian uprising, war and refugee crisis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1719603468560-B40VDJ6JJNEWLAA16FLS/Raquel_Cepeda_1.jpg Identity & Diaspora - Raquel Cepda Born in Harlem to Dominican parents, Raquel Cepda is an award-winning journalist, cultural activist, podcaster, and documentary filmmaker who travels widely to speak to diverse audiences about Latina identity, social justice, gentrification and inequality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1719601073666-H46WD0DGKCGQ52ZQ2S6F/HafizahGeter110921_048BeowulfSheehan_ecopy%2B%281%29.jpg Identity & Diaspora - Hafizah Augustus Geter Hafizah Augustus Geter is a Nigerian-American poet, writer, and literary agent. In debut memoir, The Black Period: On Personhood, Race & Origin, “Geter sets down a powerful vision of Black life in the United States by intertwining dual origin stories: her own (she is the daughter of an African American man and a Muslim Nigerian woman) and the nation’s, with its history of Native genocide and African enslavement." -The New Yorker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1719601576281-E59CMU55T877II2IUEK6/tsow%2Bauthor%2Bphoto%2Bms%2B2.jpeg Identity & Diaspora - Matthew Salesses Dr. Matthew Salesses (he/him) is the author of eight books, most recently The Sense of Wonder, the national bestseller Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping. He speaks and writes on his adoptee experience and Asian-American masculinity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1719600991621-CG1UBWXRTNF5U9JCJXGC/Engel-1.jpg Identity & Diaspora - Patricia Engel "And maybe there is no nation or citizenry; they're just territories mapped in place of family, in place of love, the infinite country." Patricia Engel is an award-winning, internationally acclaimed author and the daughter of Colombian immigrants. Engel has received critical acclaim for her works, which often explore themes of identity, displacement, and the experiences of Latinx individuals in the United States and abroad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1719601134809-40DEMKGE6P4X3A9AAPMZ/helon-habila.jpg Identity & Diaspora - Helon Habila An acclaimed Nigerian novelist, poet, and a professor of Creative Writing at George Mason University, Helon Habila speaks nationally and internationally on the subjects of immigration, art and activism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1719601382529-NHQCI301PESSPEDD5D54/Priya%2BHuq1%2B%25281%2529.jpg Identity & Diaspora - Priya Huq Priya Huq is a Bangladeshi Texan cartoonist living in New York who speaks widely on issues related to the comics industry, art, race, culture, identity and their intersections. 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Starkey masterfully uses a unique blend of storytelling and legal documentation to share his declarations.” —Library Journal (starred review) “A searing indictment of judicially condoned—and even enshrined—racism in American law. . . . A powerfully argued study of a legal system that favors those who ‘persevere in undermining Black freedom.'” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) https://www.pandelectures.com/book-club-discussion-guides/2025/10/21/book-club-guide-ill-love-you-forever-notes-from-a-k-pop-fan-by-giaae-kwon monthly 0.5 2025-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1761074441740-EXR1CFHSMYSUQ4LIJJTE/I%27ll+Love+you+Forever_Book+Club+Guide.jpg Book Discussion Guides - Book Club Guide: I’ll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan by Giaae Kwon - Book Club Discussion Guide “A front-seat look at K-pop fandom . . . a fun, colorful memoir of a global phenomenon.” —Kirkus Reviews “Intensely compelling, courageous, joyful, and illuminating, food and culture writer Kwon’s first book grounds itself in the experience of being a bbasooni, a super fan of the musical genre K-pop. . . .This is truly razor-sharp cultural criticism.” —Booklist (starred review) https://www.pandelectures.com/book-club-discussion-guides/book-club-guide-stop-me-if-youve-heard-this-one-by-kristen-arnett monthly 0.5 2026-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1761083021814-4TO5Z77FRPYF0ES8A345/Book+Club+Kit_Stop+Me+If+You%27ve+Heard+This+ONe.jpg Book Discussion Guides - Book Club Guide: Stop Me If You've Heard This One by Kristen Arnett - Book Club Discussion Guide “Sweet, sexy, sad, articulate, and funny.” – Vogue https://www.pandelectures.com/book-club-discussion-guides/book-club-discussion-guide-yourseventually-nuramaznavi monthly 0.5 2025-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/b7b17125-7204-4748-a04d-7225b208a697/Book+Club+Kit_Yours+Eventually.jpg Book Discussion Guides - Book Club Guide: Yours, Eventually by Nura Maznavi - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/31fb0dea-3cad-4f6c-8883-b1a4854918f0/Book+Club+Kit_Yours+Eventually+%281%29.jpg Book Discussion Guides - Book Club Guide: Yours, Eventually by Nura Maznavi - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.pandelectures.com/book-club-discussion-guides/2025/10/29/check-out-our-book-club-discussion-guide-for-the-indian-card-who-gets-to-be-native-in-america-by-carrie-lowry-schuettpelz monthly 0.5 2025-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/f8ed74b6-81fb-4bc0-ab35-04aa9bb804fb/The+Indian+Card_Who+is+Native+Enough.jpg Book Discussion Guides - Check out our Book Club Discussion Guide for The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America by Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.pandelectures.com/event-recommendations daily 0.75 2025-09-23 https://www.pandelectures.com/event-recommendations/2025/9/23/practical-authentic-resilience-strategies-a-mini-master-class-with-dr-myisha-cherry-and-omkari-l-williams monthly 0.5 2025-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/21b7b181-aa3d-47ff-9481-5da29d4484ec/3.png Event Recommendations - Practical Authentic Resilience Strategies: a mini master class with Dr. Myisha Cherry and Omkari L. 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He is also a cartoonist and historian who speaks nationally on the importance of sharing stories. He is the author of the acclaimed memoir Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence, cited as one of the best graphic novels of 2020 by The New York Times and for which he was awarded the 2021 Cartoonist Studio Prize. He wrote the words and drew the pictures for Fast Enough: Bessie Stringfield’s First Ride and the award-winning graphic novel series Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History, as well as 3 volumes of Tales of The Talented Tenth, which tell the stories of Bass Reeves, Bessie Stringfield and Robert Smalls. His newest work is the graphic novel of Ibram Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Ten Speed Press 2023).Gill h as dedicated his life to creating stories to build connections with readers through empathy, compassion and, ultimately, humanity. He received his MFA from Boston University and his BA from Roanoke College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1746218087044-ZWBQ2E0S0FKW8CU8FNBT/Screenshot+2025-05-02+at+10.34.40%E2%80%AFAM.png Kids Lit and Young Adult Reads - ONE MAN'S FREEDOM: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle over an American Ideal BY NICHOLAS BUCCOLA From the acclaimed author of The Fire Is upon Us, the dramatic untold story of Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr.’s decade-long clash over the meaning of freedom—and how their conflicting visions still divide American politics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/9f1b77db-cb67-4726-bb62-cd18520d1c81/Joel-Christian-Gill-600x600-1-600x600.jpg Kids Lit and Young Adult Reads - Joel Christian Gill Joel Christian Gill is the Inaugural Chair of Boston University’s Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Visual Narrative and Associate Professor in the CFA School of Visual Arts. He is also a cartoonist and historian who speaks nationally on the importance of sharing stories. He is the author of the acclaimed memoir Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence, cited as one of the best graphic novels of 2020 by The New York Times and for which he was awarded the 2021 Cartoonist Studio Prize. He wrote the words and drew the pictures for Fast Enough: Bessie Stringfield’s First Ride and the award-winning graphic novel series Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History, as well as 3 volumes of Tales of The Talented Tenth, which tell the stories of Bass Reeves, Bessie Stringfield and Robert Smalls. His newest work is the graphic novel of Ibram Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Ten Speed Press 2023).Gill h as dedicated his life to creating stories to build connections with readers through empathy, compassion and, ultimately, humanity. He received his MFA from Boston University and his BA from Roanoke College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1746217699087-QLIB28AR5R2NHQYW8RBY/Clodia+of+Rome.jpg Kids Lit and Young Adult Reads - CLODIA OF ROME: CHAMPION OF THE REPUBLIC BY DOUGLAS BOIN A thrilling new history of the late Roman Republic, told through one woman’s quest for justice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/76fcbf32-8a4d-42a5-aa21-26613ed42197/Kathryn+Hulick+Headshot.jpg Kids Lit and Young Adult Reads - Kathryn Hulick Kathryn Hulick is a freelance journalist who covers AI and computing for Science News and Science News Explores. She's also the author of books for young people or anyone who is curious. Her book The UFO Files (Quarto, 2025) combines a sci-fi story with scientific explanations of the marvels found on board an alien spacecraft. Her book Welcome To The Future (Quarto, 2021) is about how technology could change the world, and Strange But True (Quarto, 2019) uses critical thinking to explore the science behind paranormal mysteries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1746217669818-GMTS3KCQYJ7GZ933PSA6/9798990630406_p0_v1_s600x595.jpg Kids Lit and Young Adult Reads - SOMEONE'S GOTTA GIVE: A NOVEL BY ALISHA FERNANDEZ MIRANDA The author of My What If Year is back with a fun, witty debut novel that takes you inside the world of extreme wealth and charitable giving. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763045520412-RRE9ODQSPRDZBOZT1HMJ/Tony%2BKeith%2BJr.jpg Kids Lit and Young Adult Reads - Tony Keith Jr. Tony Keith Jr., PhD is an award-winning Black American gay poet, spoken word artist, and Hip-Hop educational leader from Washington DC. Or, you can just call him an “Ed Emcee”. He is the debut author of How the Boogeyman Became a Poet and Knucklehead (February 2025), both published by HarperCollins. A multi-year fellow of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Tony has featured performances at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington National Cathedral, Historic Lincoln Theatre, Bus Boys & Poets, and in schools and communities around the world including South Africa, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago and many more. His poem Black Man On Fire won first prize in the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest and his performance of Code Switched is featured in the award-winning documentary series Talking Black in America and published in the book Centering Possibility in Black Education. He is a former cultural center director at Penn State University and University of North Carolina Charlotte, and served as an adjunct professor and academic advisor at the University of the District of Columbia and the University of Maryland College Park (UMD). Tony is co-author of the award-winning book Open Mic Night: Campus Programs that Champion College Student Voice and Engagement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1746567734927-EIPYHJCQLCXIUO9L7IGW/GM%2BPHOTO%2B2_2024.jpg Kids Lit and Young Adult Reads - Gloria Muñoz Gloria Muñoz is a Colombian American writer, translator, and advocate for multilingual literacy. She is the author of This is the Year, Your Biome Has Found You, and Danzirly, which won the Ambroggio Prize and the Gold Medal Florida Book Award. Her other honors include an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, Hedgebrook Fellowship, being a Macondista, Highlights Foundation’s Diverse Verse Fellowship, Lumina’s Multilingual Writing Award, and a part of Las Musas. She is proud to be St. Pete's first Latina poet laureate. Through Moonlit Música, a bilingual media company she co-founded, she writes narrative scripts and songs for children, adolescent, and adult programming. Notable clients include The New York Times, Comedy Central, hulu, Rebel Girls, Apple tv, Google, FX, and Hatch, for which she has developed beloved sleep story characters, including Mari Mariposa, a bilingual butterfly with a passion for community building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763045508508-SA8HHB4Y7KJTXPHZR623/Tiffany%252BJewell.jpg Kids Lit and Young Adult Reads - Tiffany Jewell Tiffany Jewell is a Black biracial writer, twin sister, first generation American, cisgender mama, anti-bias antiracist (ABAR) educator, and consultant. She is the author of the #1 New York Times and #1 Indie Bestseller, This Book Is Anti-Racist, a book for young folks and everyone to wake up, take action, and do the work of becoming antiracist and The Antiracist Kid: A Book About Identity, Justice, and Activism. Tiffany is currently working on multiple book projects for readers of all ages. Her latest book, Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School (2024) focuses on the experiences Black and Brown students face as a direct result of the racism built into schools across the United States. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701901640915-8JN208LPCIF6SHX8F9EE/Kai%2BHarris.jpeg Kids Lit and Young Adult Reads - Kai Harris Kai Harris is a writer and educator from Detroit, Michigan, who uses her voice to uplift the Black community through realistic fiction centered on the experiences of Black girls and Black women. Kai's publication credits include Guernica, Lit Hub, The Everygirl, and The New York Times Book Review. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, What the Fireflies Knew, won the 2023 Phillis Wheatley Book Award in Fiction, was longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, was nominated for an NAACP Image Award, and was selected as a Marie Claire Book Club pick, amongst other honors. In addition to fiction, Kai has published poetry, personal essays, and peer-reviewed academic articles on topics related to Black girlhood and womanhood, the slave narrative genre, motherhood, and Black identity. A graduate of Western Michigan University’s PhD program, Kai was the recipient of the university’s Gwen Frostic Creative Writing Award in Fiction for her short story, “While We Live.” Kai now resides in the Bay Area with her family, where she loves to hike and visit the beach—and where she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Santa Clara University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1743193577954-1W1IQJLZPRMW7FDF8KHR/Priya%2BHuq1.jpg Kids Lit and Young Adult Reads - Priya Huq Priya Huq is a Bangladeshi Texan cartoonist living in New York who speaks widely on issues related to the comics industry, art, race, culture, identity and their intersections. Her appearances include the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, Emerald City Comic Con, and New York Comic Con. In her talks, Priya focuses on practical advice for marginalized artists and cartoonists. Audiences will learn how trauma affects an artist's brain and techniques for creating after trauma. Priya is an outspoken voice in the conversation around diversity in comics and her work explores race and multiculturalism in America. Priya draws and writes diverse comics, often in watercolor for all ages on a variety of topics and genres. Her comics work has been featured in The Nib, as well as in anthologies such as Habibi: A Muslim Love Story Anthology and Dirty Diamonds. Priya's first book, Piece by Piece: The Story of Nisrin's Hijab (Abrams ComicArts, 2021), is a young adult graphic novel featuring a fourteen-year-old girl, Nisrin, who begins to grapple with her cultural identity and sense of place in the world after a racist assault. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701738139363-RTG55IWFSS6JLSJOD8W6/Layla%2BSaad%2BAuthor%2BPhoto+%281%29.jpeg Kids Lit and Young Adult Reads - Layla F. Saad Layla F. Saad is the author of the ground-breaking Me and White Supremacy, an anti-racism education workbook that was initially offered for free in an Instagram challenge and in a self-published digital workbook in 2018 (downloaded by 100,000 people in the space of six months). Me and White Supremacy debuted on the New York Times and USA Today bestsellers lists. It is also an Amazon, Wall Street Journal, Indie, and Pacific Northwest bestseller. Most recently, she has adapted it for young adult audiences. Layla is an East African, Arab, British, Black, Muslim woman who was born and grew up in the West, and lives in the Middle East. Layla has always sat at a unique intersection of identities from which she is able to draw rich and intriguing perspectives. Her work is driven by her powerful desire to become a good ancestor; to live and work in ways that leave a legacy of healing and liberation for those who will come after she is gone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/f276767b-4540-4d58-999c-d44ff7970020/SHERINE-HAMDY-1.jpg Kids Lit and Young Adult Reads - Sherine Hamdy A graphic novelist and Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of California-Irvine, Sherine Hamdy speaks nationally and internationally on the role of comics as a teaching tool and on social justice and representation in comics. She has led a seminar at Seattle Children’s Hospital, delivered the keynote address at DePauw University’s undergraduate conference in Science, Technology, Medicine and Society, and spoke on about social justice and comics at St. John’s University and Swarthmore. Sherine writes out of a desire to contribute to more honest depictions of Arab and Muslim Americans. Her young adult graphic novel, Jabs, illustrated by Myra El-Mir (forthcoming) tells the coming-of-age story of an Egyptian-American girl living in Long Island and struggling with her first year of college. In 2017, she published a graphic novel co-authored with Coleman Nye called Lissa: A Story of Friendship, Medical Promise, and Revolution (University of Toronto/EthnoGRAPHICS). This story draws on Sherine’s work on Muslim ethics and health care practices in Egypt, as well as Coleman Nye's research on women in the U.S. who test positive for the BRCA cancer gene. https://www.pandelectures.com/awardwinning-authors daily 0.75 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763046674285-3GXFGZMCANKI0BTXNT16/Annabelle%252BTometich%252Bheadshot%252Bvert.jpg Award-winning Authors - Annabelle Tometich Annabelle Tometich went from medical-school reject to line cook to journalist to author. She spent 18 years as a food writer and restaurant critic for The News-Press in her hometown of Fort Myers, Florida. Her first book, The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony (2024, Little Brown) was called “sweet, sharp” by The New York Times and won the 2025 Southern Book Prize for Nonfiction. Tometich’s writing has appeared in The Washington Post, USA Today, Catapult, the Tampa Bay Times, and many more outlets. She has won more than a dozen awards for her stories, including first place for Food & Travel Writing at the 2022 Sunshine State Awards. She (still) lives in Fort Myers with her husband, two children, and her ever-fiery Filipina mother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763046674285-3GXFGZMCANKI0BTXNT16/Annabelle%252BTometich%252Bheadshot%252Bvert.jpg Award-winning Authors - Annabelle Tometich Annabelle Tometich went from medical-school reject to line cook to journalist to author. She spent 18 years as a food writer and restaurant critic for The News-Press in her hometown of Fort Myers, Florida. Her first book, The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony (2024, Little Brown) was called “sweet, sharp” by The New York Times and won the 2025 Southern Book Prize for Nonfiction. Tometich’s writing has appeared in The Washington Post, USA Today, Catapult, the Tampa Bay Times, and many more outlets. She has won more than a dozen awards for her stories, including first place for Food & Travel Writing at the 2022 Sunshine State Awards. She (still) lives in Fort Myers with her husband, two children, and her ever-fiery Filipina mother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1762979281271-BXH15RUMRETLQPA3K4LN/ANDREA%252BFREEMAN_Headshot.webp Award-winning Authors - Andrea Freeman Andrea Freeman is an author, law professor, and Fulbright scholar. She is a national and international expert on the intersections of race and food policy, health, and consumer credit. Much of her work explores her pioneering theory of food oppression, which examines how food law and policy, influenced by corporate interests, disproportionately harms marginalized communities. Freeman is the author of Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch, Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History and Winner of the James Beard Media Award in Food Issues and Advocacy (Metropolitan 2024), and Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice (Stanford University Press 2019), in addition to book chapters, law review articles, and op-eds. Skimmed is currently in development for a documentary with Topic Pictures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1762981121140-QTXZO74C1ILBULGM4DRB/Patricia%252BEngel.jpg Award-winning Authors - Patricia Engel Patricia Engel is the author of five works of fiction. Her most recent book, a short story collection titled The Faraway World, was a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, longlisted for The Story Prize, and named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year, and a Boston Globe Best Book of the Year. Her novel Infinite Country, a New York Times bestseller, won the New American Voices Award, a Florida Book Award, was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. It was also named a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year, a Reese’s Book Club pick, an Indie Next pick, Entertainment Weekly’s #1 Best Book of the Year, and more. Patricia has been awarded the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and an O. Henry Award. Her books have been translated into many languages and selected as an NEA Big Read. Born to Colombian parents and raised in New Jersey, Patricia is a graduate of New York University and earned her MFA at Florida International University. She is a Professor of English in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Miami. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763044565418-M027X10BFVSDJG2IHJ7O/HafizahGeter110921_048BeowulfSheehan_ecopy%252B%25281%2529.jpg Award-winning Authors - Hafizah Augustus Geter Hafizah Augustus Geter is a Nigerian-American poet, writer, and literary agent born in Zaria, Nigeria, and raised in Akron, Ohio, and Columbia, South Carolina. Her debut memoir, The Black Period: On Personhood, Race & Origin, (Random House, 2022) won the 2023 PEN Open Book Award, the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Nonfiction in addition to being a 2023 Chautauqua Prize Finalist, a New Yorker Magazine Best Book of 2022, a Good Morning America Anticipated Book, and an Amazon's Best of the Month Editor's Pick. Hafizah serves on the Brooklyn Literary Council and as the poetry committee co-chair for the Brooklyn Book Festival. She is a Cave Canem poetry fellow, a VONA/Voices nonfiction fellow, a Bread Loaf 2021 Katherine Bakeless nonfiction fellow, a 2018 92Y Women in Power Fellow, and the recipient of an Amy Award from Poets & Writers. She's previously worked at Cave Canem, Poets House, and PEN America, and served on the board of VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1762979292528-9TLEAF2O35BPLQPKPTRK/Omkari%2BL.%2BWilliams%2BHeadshot.png Award-winning Authors - Omkari L. Williams Omkari L. Williams is the Gold Nautilus award-winning and bestselling author of Micro Activism: How You Can Make a Difference in the World (Without A Bullhorn). Her book helps readers identify their “activist archetype" and map a personal action plan for engaging in small, change-making activities with potentially big impacts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1762980583048-9XS48IASHM399J4TTY9W/Nicholas%2BBuccola%2BHeadshot.jpg Award-winning Authors - Nicholas Buccola Nicholas Buccola is a political philosopher who specializes in American political thought. He is also a writer, lecturer, and teacher, and author of One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle over an American Ideal (Princeton University Press in October 2025). His previous books include The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America( Princeton University, 2019), which won the Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction, and The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty (New York University Press, 2012). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1746567734927-EIPYHJCQLCXIUO9L7IGW/GM%2BPHOTO%2B2_2024.jpg Award-winning Authors - Gloria Muñoz Gloria Muñoz is a Colombian American writer, translator, and advocate for multilingual literacy. She is the author of This is the Year, Your Biome Has Found You, and Danzirly, which won the Ambroggio Prize and the Gold Medal Florida Book Award. Her other honors include an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, Hedgebrook Fellowship, being a Macondista, Highlights Foundation’s Diverse Verse Fellowship, Lumina’s Multilingual Writing Award, and a part of Las Musas. She is proud to be St. Pete's first Latina poet laureate. She holds degrees from Sarah Lawrence College and the University of South Florida. A proponent of cross-disciplinary collaboration, Gloria has worked alongside botanists, musicians, dancers, historians, classicists, visual artists, conservationists, and neuroscientists. Through Moonlit Música, a bilingual media company she co-founded, she writes narrative scripts and songs for children, adolescent, and adult programming. Notable clients include The New York Times, Comedy Central, hulu, Rebel Girls, Apple tv, Google, FX, and Hatch, for which she has developed beloved sleep story characters, including Mari Mariposa, a bilingual butterfly with a passion for community building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1762980903505-1I3WANXM17W7UTQH83K5/Author%252Band%252BSpeaker%252BBridgett%252BM.%252BDavis%252BHeadshot%252Bby%252BNina%252BSubin%252BPhotography.jpg Award-winning Authors - Bridgett M. Davis Bridgett M. Davis is the author of the memoir Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy, published by Harper Books in spring 2025. This moving memoir examines the vivacious life of Bridgett’s older sister Rita. It is full of joy and heartbreak, family history and American history, and uses Rita’s life as a lens to examine the persistent effects of racism in the lives of Black women. Her first memoir, The World According To Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life In The Detroit Numbers, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a 2020 Michigan Notable Book, named a Best Book of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews, BuzzFeed, NBC News and Parade Magazine, and featured as a clue on the quiz show Jeopardy!. The upcoming film adaptation will be produced by Plan B Entertainment and released by Searchlight Pictures. Davis is also the writer and director of the 1998 award-winning feature film Naked Acts, newly restored by Milestone Films and released in 2024 to critical acclaim, and screening in theaters across the US as well as international venues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/9f1b77db-cb67-4726-bb62-cd18520d1c81/Joel-Christian-Gill-600x600-1-600x600.jpg Award-winning Authors - Joel Christian Gill Joel Christian Gill is the Inaugural Chair of Boston University’s Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Visual Narrative and Associate Professor in the CFA School of Visual Arts. He is also a cartoonist and historian who speaks nationally on the importance of sharing stories. He is the author of the acclaimed memoir Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence, cited as one of the best graphic novels of 2020 by The New York Times and for which he was awarded the 2021 Cartoonist Studio Prize. His newest work is the graphic novel of Ibram Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Ten Speed Press 2023). Gill has dedicated his life to creating stories to build connections with readers through empathy, compassion and, ultimately, humanity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763045520412-RRE9ODQSPRDZBOZT1HMJ/Tony%2BKeith%2BJr.jpg Award-winning Authors - Tony Keith Jr. Tony Keith Jr., PhD is an award-winning Black American gay poet, spoken word artist, and Hip-Hop educational leader from Washington DC. Or, you can just call him an “Ed Emcee”. He is the debut author of How the Boogeyman Became a Poet (Odyssey Award for Audiobook Excellence Winner) and Knucklehead (February 2025), both published by HarperCollins. A multi-year fellow of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Tony has featured performances at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington National Cathedral, Historic Lincoln Theatre, Bus Boys & Poets, and in schools and communities around the world including South Africa, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago and many more. His poem Black Man On Fire won first prize in the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest and his performance of Code Switched is featured in the award-winning documentary series Talking Black in America and published in the book Centering Possibility in Black Education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763044904746-4H90EM0DJ6RS1ABLR7KP/helon-habila.jpg Award-winning Authors - Helon Habila Helon Habila is an acclaimed Nigerian novelist, poet, and a professor of Creative Writing at George Mason University. He speaks nationally and internationally on the subjects of immigration, art and activism. He has delivered at the DeGraaf Lecture at Hope College and has spoken at the Abantu Lit Fest in South Africa. Habila’s first novel, Waiting for an Angel, received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book He also authored Measuring Time, which was nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the Dublin IMPAC Prize and won the Virginia Library Foundation Prize for fiction. His third novel, Oil on Water, won many prizes including the Pen/Open Book Award; Commonwealth Best Book, Africa Region; and The Orion Book Award. To illuminate the long history of colonialism—and unmask cultural and religious dynamics—that gave rise to the conflicts that have ravaged the region to this day, Habila wrote The Chibok Girls, a nonfiction account of the girls abducted by Boko Haram. His latest novel, Travelers, examines the lives of African immigrants in Europe and inscribes unforgettable signposts―both unsettling and luminous―marking the universal journey in pursuit of love and home. In addition to being a novelist, Habila has written award-winning poetry and short-story collections, including Prison Stories which won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2001. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701901640915-8JN208LPCIF6SHX8F9EE/Kai%2BHarris.jpeg Award-winning Authors - Kai Harris Kai Harris is a writer and educator from Detroit, Michigan, who uses her voice to uplift the Black community through realistic fiction centered on the experiences of Black girls and Black women. Kai's publication credits include Guernica, Lit Hub, The Everygirl, and The New York Times Book Review. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, What the Fireflies Knew, won the 2023 Phillis Wheatley Book Award in Fiction, was longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, was nominated for an NAACP Image Award, and was selected as a Marie Claire Book Club pick, amongst other honors. In addition to fiction, Kai has published poetry, personal essays, and peer-reviewed academic articles on topics related to Black girlhood and womanhood, the slave narrative genre, motherhood, and Black identity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763045208876-0E7HYAEXYIL96F2EP1PC/IMG_8043%252B-%252BLadee%252BHubbard.jpg Award-winning Authors - Ladee Hubbard Ladee Hubbard is the author of two novels: The Talented Ribkins which received the 2017 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and the 2018 Hurston-Wright Award for Debut Fiction, and The Rib King (2021). The Last Suspicious Holdout (2022), her collection of short stories, explores the relationships between friends, family and strangers in a Black neighborhood over fifteen years. She is a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, The Berlin Prize and a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship. She received a BA in English from Princeton University, a MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a PhD in Folklore and Mythology from the University of California, Los Angeles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763045221281-3271R9PTNWHZQ102CKQX/John%252BJennings.jpg Award-winning Authors - John Jennings John Jennings is a professor, author, graphic novelist, curator, Harvard Fellow, New York Times Bestseller, 2018 Eisner Winner, and winner of the Hugo Award for his co-adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s dystopian novel The Parable of the Sower. As Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside (UCR), Jennings examines the visual culture of race in various media forms including film, illustrated fiction, and comics and graphic novels. He is also the director of Abrams ComicArts imprint Megascope, which publishes graphic novels focused on the experiences of people of color. Jennings is co-editor of the 2016 Eisner Award-winning collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art (Rutgers) and co-founder/organizer of The Schomburg Center’s Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem. He is co-founder and organizer of the MLK NorCal’s Black Comix Arts Festival in San Francisco and also CAAMCon at The California African American Museum in Los Angeles. John is currently at work on My Superhero Is Black with acclaimed producer Angélique Roché. The book will illuminate some of the most important Black creators and characters through Marvel Comics history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763046176643-1UUP7UZJT3VOJ9F1R4TT/AllisaVRichardson_Headshot_PhotoCredit_1%252B_%252BDaJuana%252BJones.jpg Award-winning Authors - Allissa V. Richardson Allissa V. Richardson, PhD is an assistant professor of journalism at USC Annenberg. She researches how African Americans use mobile and social media to produce innovative forms of journalism — especially in times of crisis. Richardson is the author of Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones and the New Protest #Journalism (Oxford University Press, 2020), which won the 2022 Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture, Tankard Award from Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and the 2021 International Journal of Press/Politics Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award. Richardson’s research is informed by her award-winning work as a journalism innovator. She is considered a pioneer in mobile journalism (MOJO), having launched the world’s first smartphone-only college newsrooms in 2010, in the U.S., Morocco and South Africa. Richardson won the National Association of Black Journalists’ prestigious Journalism Educator of the Year (‘12) award for her international work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1762980049593-SI4ENO8CW1NVVXNVFHAS/Susan%2BAbulhawa%2BHeadshot.jpg Award-winning Authors - Susan Abulhawa Susan Abulhawa speaks widely on the subjects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the power of storytelling, particularly for marginalized communities. Susan is the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine, a non-profit organization dedicated to upholding the Right to Play for Palestinian children under Israeli occupation and in refugee camps outside of Palestine. Susan is one of the most widely-read Arab authors. Her debut novel, Mornings in Jenin, is a multigenerational family epic spanning five countries and more than sixty years. With an unflinching look at the Palestinian question, it was translated into thirty languages and became an international bestseller. Her latest novel, Against the Loveless World, won the Arab American Book Award. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763046185945-46YG0Y0EXUZRQ38IDXBG/Amrita%25252BHeadshots%25252BSept%25252B2018-amrita-0013.jpg Award-winning Authors - Amrita Chakrabarti Myers Amrita Chakrabarti Myers is an award-winning archival historian, writer, educator, and community-based organizer. She earned her doctorate in US History from Rutgers University and specializes in Black Women’s History, Antebellum History, Slavery, and the American South. A committed activist both on and off campus, Myers is regularly interviewed by media outlets ranging from PBS and NPR to Fox News on issues of race and gender justice, and she has published editorials and articles on policing, anti-Blackness, and racism writ large in a variety of newspapers including the Washington Post and the Louisville Courier-Journal. Her first book, Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2011 and received several awards including the 2012 Julia Cherry Spruill Book Prize from the Southern Association of Women Historians and the 2011 Anna Julia Cooper-C.L.R. James Book Prize from the National Council for Black Studies. Her latest book, The Vice President’s Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn (Ferris & Ferris, 2023) is now available at all retailers. She is currently the Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor of History and Gender Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington where she is also the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History. https://www.pandelectures.com/climate-environment-and-sustainability daily 0.75 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763044904746-4H90EM0DJ6RS1ABLR7KP/helon-habila.jpg Climate, Environment, and Sustainability - Helon Habila Helon Habila is an acclaimed Nigerian novelist, poet, and a professor of Creative Writing at George Mason University. He speaks nationally and internationally on the subjects of immigration, art and activism. He has delivered at the DeGraaf Lecture at Hope College and has spoken at the Abantu Lit Fest in South Africa. Habila’s first novel, Waiting for an Angel, received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book He also authored Measuring Time, which was nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the Dublin IMPAC Prize and won the Virginia Library Foundation Prize for fiction. His third novel, Oil on Water, won many prizes including the Pen/Open Book Award; Commonwealth Best Book, Africa Region; and The Orion Book Award. To illuminate the long history of colonialism—and unmask cultural and religious dynamics—that gave rise to the conflicts that have ravaged the region to this day, Habila wrote The Chibok Girls, a nonfiction account of the girls abducted by Boko Haram. His latest novel, Travelers, examines the lives of African immigrants in Europe and inscribes unforgettable signposts―both unsettling and luminous―marking the universal journey in pursuit of love and home. In addition to being a novelist, Habila has written award-winning poetry and short-story collections, including Prison Stories which won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2001. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763044904746-4H90EM0DJ6RS1ABLR7KP/helon-habila.jpg Climate, Environment, and Sustainability - Helon Habila Helon Habila is an acclaimed Nigerian novelist, poet, and a professor of Creative Writing at George Mason University. He speaks nationally and internationally on the subjects of immigration, art and activism. He has delivered at the DeGraaf Lecture at Hope College and has spoken at the Abantu Lit Fest in South Africa. Habila’s first novel, Waiting for an Angel, received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book He also authored Measuring Time, which was nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the Dublin IMPAC Prize and won the Virginia Library Foundation Prize for fiction. His third novel, Oil on Water, won many prizes including the Pen/Open Book Award; Commonwealth Best Book, Africa Region; and The Orion Book Award. To illuminate the long history of colonialism—and unmask cultural and religious dynamics—that gave rise to the conflicts that have ravaged the region to this day, Habila wrote The Chibok Girls, a nonfiction account of the girls abducted by Boko Haram. His latest novel, Travelers, examines the lives of African immigrants in Europe and inscribes unforgettable signposts―both unsettling and luminous―marking the universal journey in pursuit of love and home. In addition to being a novelist, Habila has written award-winning poetry and short-story collections, including Prison Stories which won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2001. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1762979281271-BXH15RUMRETLQPA3K4LN/ANDREA%252BFREEMAN_Headshot.webp Climate, Environment, and Sustainability - Andrea Freeman Andrea Freeman is an author, law professor, and Fulbright scholar. She is a national and international expert on the intersections of race and food policy, health, and consumer credit. Much of her work explores her pioneering theory of food oppression, which examines how food law and policy, influenced by corporate interests, disproportionately harms marginalized communities. Freeman is the author of Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch, Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History and Winner of the James Beard Media Award in Food Issues and Advocacy (Metropolitan 2024), and Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice (Stanford University Press 2019), in addition to book chapters, law review articles, and op-eds. Skimmed is currently in development for a documentary with Topic Pictures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763047093676-JOZ7KO7ENB0VAJ6SJE38/SafiyaUmojaNoble_Credit_Stella_Kallnina-1-scaled.jpg Climate, Environment, and Sustainability - Safiya U. Noble Dr. Safiya U. Noble is the David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of Gender Studies, African American Studies, and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is the Director of the Center on Resilience & Digital Justice and Co-Director of the Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power at the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). Dr. Noble is the author of the best-selling book Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. In 2021, she was recognized as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow for her ground-breaking work on algorithmic discrimination. She is recognized as a thought leader in the technology policy space and speaks to the impacts of technological advances on society, health, and climate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763047110644-F07H9B5EDCLCYHRYVK86/Davarian-L.-Baldwin.-Photo-by-VisionMerge-Productions.jpg Climate, Environment, and Sustainability - Davarian L. Baldwin Dr. Davarian L. Baldwin is an internationally recognized urbanist, cultural critic, historian, and public advocate. He is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Founding Director of the Smart Cities Research Lab at Trinity College. A foremost expert on Black social movements and African American history, he is often called upon to consult on everything from the politics of reparations to the global impact of the Harlem Renaissance. His academic and political commitments have focused on global cities and particularly the diverse and marginalized communities that struggle to maintain sustainable lives in urban locales. Baldwin is the award-winning author of several books including In The Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities (2021), Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life (2007), and Land of Darkness: Chicago and the Making of Race in Modern America (forthcoming from Oxford University Press). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1746567734927-EIPYHJCQLCXIUO9L7IGW/GM%2BPHOTO%2B2_2024.jpg Climate, Environment, and Sustainability - Gloria Muñoz Gloria Muñoz is a Colombian American writer, translator, and advocate for multilingual literacy. A leading writer in the climate fiction and ecopoetics spaces, she is the author of This is the Year, Your Biome Has Found You, and Danzirly, which won the Ambroggio Prize and the Gold Medal Florida Book Award. Her other honors include an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, Hedgebrook Fellowship, being a Macondista, Highlights Foundation’s Diverse Verse Fellowship, Lumina’s Multilingual Writing Award, and a part of Las Musas. She is proud to be St. Pete's first Latina poet laureate. Her writing has been anthologized most recently by A24 and has appeared in American Poetry, MagazinePuerto del Sol, VIDA Review, Acentos Review, Lumina, the Rumpus, Yes Poetry, Juke Joint, Best New Poets, Sweet, Burrow Press, Cosmonauts Avenue, Entropy, Wildness, Cagibi, and elsewhere. Muñoz is also the author of the chapbook Your Biome Has Found You. She holds degrees from Sarah Lawrence College and the University of South Florida. A proponent of cross-disciplinary collaboration, Gloria has worked alongside botanists, musicians, dancers, historians, classicists, visual artists, conservationists, and neuroscientists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1700523795374-KJUBEPXOX27ROLINJXNL/Sequoia_Nagamatsu.jpeg Climate, Environment, and Sustainability - Sequoia Nagamatsu Sequoia Nagamatsu is the author of the National Bestselling novel, HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK (2022) and the forthcoming GIRL ZERO (William Morrow/HarperCollins and Bloomsbury UK), as well as the story collection, WHERE WE GO WHEN ALL WE WERE IS GONE (Black Lawrence Press). A recognized climate fiction author, he uses his fiction writing to spark conversations about issues that impact society. He was educated at Grinnell College (BA) and Southern Illinois University-Carbondale (MFA), and he teaches creative writing at Saint Olaf College and the Rainier Writing Workshop Low-Residency MFA program. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife, the writer Cole Nagamatsu, their cat Kalahira, their real dog Fenris, and a robot dog named Calvino. https://www.pandelectures.com/democracy-policy-civic-life daily 0.75 2026-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1762980583048-9XS48IASHM399J4TTY9W/Nicholas%2BBuccola%2BHeadshot.jpg Democracy, Policy, and Civic Life - Nicholas Buccola Nicholas Buccola is a writer, lecturer, and teacher who specializes in the area of American political thought. He is the author of One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle over an American Ideal (Princeton University Press, October 2025). His previous books include The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America (Princeton University, 2019) and The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty (New York University Press, 2012). He is the editor of The Essential Douglass: Writings and Speeches (Hackett, 2016) and Abraham Lincoln and Liberal Democracy (University Press of Kansas, 2016). His essays have appeared in scholarly journals including The Review of Politics and American Political Thought as well as popular outlets such as The New York Times, Salon, The Baltimore Sun, and Dissent. He is Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California. He serves as the Book Review Editor of American Political Thought (University of Chicago Press). He is at work on a new book about the contested meaning of freedom in the American civil rights and conservative movements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1762980583048-9XS48IASHM399J4TTY9W/Nicholas%2BBuccola%2BHeadshot.jpg Democracy, Policy, and Civic Life - Nicholas Buccola Nicholas Buccola is a writer, lecturer, and teacher who specializes in the area of American political thought. He is the author of One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle over an American Ideal (Princeton University Press, October 2025). His previous books include The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America (Princeton University, 2019) and The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty (New York University Press, 2012). He is the editor of The Essential Douglass: Writings and Speeches (Hackett, 2016) and Abraham Lincoln and Liberal Democracy (University Press of Kansas, 2016). His essays have appeared in scholarly journals including The Review of Politics and American Political Thought as well as popular outlets such as The New York Times, Salon, The Baltimore Sun, and Dissent. He is Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California. He serves as the Book Review Editor of American Political Thought (University of Chicago Press). He is at work on a new book about the contested meaning of freedom in the American civil rights and conservative movements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763052645066-E63HF6N4UDXZTV0MBAU9/Brando.png Democracy, Policy, and Civic Life - Brando Simeo Starkey Brando Simeo Starkey is a leading writer and scholar in US History and politics, with a specialties in consitutional amedments and the US Supreme Court. A graduate of Harvard Law School and a member of the New York Bar, he taught law at Villanova Law School and wrote for several years for ESPN’s The Undefeated (now Andscape). Born and raised in Cincinnati, he lives in Southern California with his wife and two sons. He has launched a newsletter, The Braveverse, about law, politics, and freedom from caste, at the TheBraveverse.com and a YouTube channel covering the same themes at https://www.youtube.com/@TheBraveverse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1576012500726-4TKPF4QWR2T7XO1K0Y43/doug+boin.jpg Democracy, Policy, and Civic Life - Doug Boin Dr. Douglas Boin (B.A., Georgetown University; M.A. and Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) is a historian, teacher, and author. His books include Coming Out Christian in the Roman World, A Social and Cultural History of Late Antiquity, and Alaric the Goth: An Outsider’s History of the Fall of Rome, which was named by The Economist one of the best books of 2020. His next book, Clodia of Rome, will appear from W. W. Norton in August 2025. Doug shares the lessons he’s learned about the people of the ancient past with audiences at home: stories of inclusion and exclusion, examples of how lawmakers have manipulated judicial and constitutional systems to stigmatize individuals and groups, times when men in power have limited people’s access to their due rights and privileges. Today, when he is not directing an excavation in Umbria, Italy, or teaching undergraduates and graduate students in St. Louis, Doug remains committed to his roots as a writer–ensuring that Rome and all its stories remain accessible, compelling, and above all, unexpectedly relevant to all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763052546128-RARDG5H8M1AGQ7EPRIV7/image-asset.jpg Democracy, Policy, and Civic Life - Siva Vaidhyanathan As an acclaimed thought leader, cultural historian, media scholar and lecturer, Siva Vaidhyanathan speaks on the impact of digitalization on society and democracy. In his speeches, he encourages audiences to consider how technological advances like artificial intelligence, corporations like Google and algorithm-fueled social media platforms shape the way we think and what we can do to foster a new Internet ecosystem designed to benefit the whole world. At the University of Virginia, Vaidhyanathan serves as the Robertson Professor of Media Studies and the director of the Center for Media and Citizenship. He is a frequent contributor on media and cultural issues on public radio shows and news programs, notably BBC, CNN and NBC. Siva has authored several books, including Antisocial Media and The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry). He also co-hosted the podcast Democracy in Danger. His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian and The Nation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1772813895136-ZE7RENMWKDPU1M6R27RL/SafiyaUmojaNoble_Credit_Stella_Kallnina-1-scaled.jpg Democracy, Policy, and Civic Life - Safiya U. Noble Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble is the David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of Gender Studies, African American Studies, and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is the Director of the Center on Resilience & Digital Justice (CRDJ) and Co-Director of the Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power at the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). She currently serves as a Director of the UCLA DataX Initiative, leading work in critical data studies for the campus. Professor Noble is the author of the best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic harm in commercial search engines, entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press), which has been widely-reviewed in scholarly and popular publications. In 2021, she was recognized as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow for her ground-breaking work on algorithmic discrimination. Dr. Noble is a board member of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, serving those vulnerable to online harassment, and provides expertise to a number of civil and human rights organizations. She is a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford where she is a chartering member of the International Panel on the Information Environment. In 2022, she was recognized as the inaugural NAACP-Archewell Digital Civil Rights Award recipient. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763047110644-F07H9B5EDCLCYHRYVK86/Davarian-L.-Baldwin.-Photo-by-VisionMerge-Productions.jpg Democracy, Policy, and Civic Life - Davarian L. Baldwin Dr. Davarian L. Baldwin is an internationally recognized scholar, historian, and public advocate. He is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Founding Director of the Smart Cities Research Lab at Trinity College. A foremost expert on Black social movements and African American history, he is often called upon to consult on everything from the politics of reparations to the global impact of the Harlem Renaissance. His academic and political commitments have focused on global cities and particularly the diverse and marginalized communities that struggle to maintain sustainable lives in urban locales. Baldwin is the award-winning author of several books including In The Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities (2021), Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life (2007), and Land of Darkness: Chicago and the Making of Race in Modern America (forthcoming from Oxford University Press). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1762979281271-BXH15RUMRETLQPA3K4LN/ANDREA%252BFREEMAN_Headshot.webp Democracy, Policy, and Civic Life - Andrea Freeman Andrea Freeman is an author, law professor, and Fulbright scholar. She is a national and international expert on the intersections of race and food policy, health, and consumer credit. Much of her work explores her pioneering theory of food oppression, which examines how food law and policy, influenced by corporate interests, disproportionately harms marginalized communities. Freeman is the author of Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch (Metropolitan 2024), Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History and Winner of the James Beard Media Award in Food Issues and Advocacy, and Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice (Stanford University Press 2019), in addition to book chapters, law review articles, and op-eds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1719603468560-B40VDJ6JJNEWLAA16FLS/Raquel_Cepeda_1.jpg Democracy, Policy, and Civic Life - Raquel Cepeda Born in Harlem to Dominican parents, award-winning filmmaker and writer Raquel Cepeda is the author of Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina (Atria, Simon & Schuster). Bird of Paradise is equal parts memoir about Cepeda’s coming of age in New York City and Santo Domingo, and detective story chronicling her year-long journey to discover the truth about her ancestry. Raquel travels widely to speak to diverse audiences about Latina identity, social justice, gentrification and inequality. https://www.pandelectures.com/health-healing-and-care daily 0.75 2026-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1762979281271-BXH15RUMRETLQPA3K4LN/ANDREA%252BFREEMAN_Headshot.webp Health, Healing and Care - Andrea Freeman Andrea Freeman is an author, law professor, and Fulbright scholar. She is a national and international expert on the intersections of race and food policy, health, and consumer credit. Much of her work explores her pioneering theory of food oppression, which examines how food law and policy, influenced by corporate interests, disproportionately harms marginalized communities. Freeman is the author of Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch (Metropolitan 2024), Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History and Winner of the James Beard Media Award in Food Issues and Advocacy, and Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice (Stanford University Press 2019), in addition to book chapters, law review articles, and op-eds. Skimmed is currently in development for a documentary with Topic Pictures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1762979281271-BXH15RUMRETLQPA3K4LN/ANDREA%252BFREEMAN_Headshot.webp Health, Healing and Care - Andrea Freeman Andrea Freeman is an author, law professor, and Fulbright scholar. She is a national and international expert on the intersections of race and food policy, health, and consumer credit. Much of her work explores her pioneering theory of food oppression, which examines how food law and policy, influenced by corporate interests, disproportionately harms marginalized communities. Freeman is the author of Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch (Metropolitan 2024), Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History and Winner of the James Beard Media Award in Food Issues and Advocacy, and Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice (Stanford University Press 2019), in addition to book chapters, law review articles, and op-eds. Skimmed is currently in development for a documentary with Topic Pictures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1711044708520-36P6N4ZKHVFWT6QC2YDG/speaker%2Band%2Bauthor%2Bmyisha%2Bcherry%2Bheadshot.jpg Health, Healing and Care - Myisha Cherry Dr. Myisha Cherry is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. She is also the Director of the Emotion and Society Lab. Her research is primarily concerned with the role of emotions and attitudes in public life. Cherry’s books include UnMuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice, The Moral Psychology of Anger which she co-edited with Owen Flanagan, and The Case for Rage: Why Anger is Essential to Anti-racist Struggle. In her latest book, Failures of Forgiveness: What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better, Dr. Cherry presents a new and healthier understanding of forgiveness—one that will give us a better chance to recover from wrongdoing and move toward “radical repair.” Her work on emotions and race has appeared in The Atlantic, Boston Review, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Huffington Post, WomanKind, and New Philosopher Magazine. Dr. Cherry is also the host of the UnMute Podcast, where she interviews philosophers about the social and political issues of our day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/aad2747e-67e4-43b3-ada7-1257174e53a0/Jamilah-Pitts-Headshot-by-Chloe-Jackman-Photography.jpg Health, Healing and Care - Jamilah Pitts Jamilah Pitts is an author, educator, social entrepreneur, and wellness guide whose work centers the liberation, healing and holistic development of communities of the Global Majority. Jamilah has worked and served in various roles and spaces to promote racial justice and healing. Jamilah has served as a teacher, coach, dean, and as an Assistant Principal. She has worked in domestic and international educational spaces, including Massachusetts, New York, the Dominican Republic, China, and in India. As the Founder and CEO of Jamilah Pitts Consulting, Jamilah partners with schools, communities, universities and organizations to advance the work of racial, social and intersectional justice through educator training and coaching. Jamilah is also the Founder of She, Imprints, an organization serving at the intersection of wellness and justice for women and girls of the Global Majority. Jamilah is the author of Toward Liberation: Educational Practices Rooted in Activism, Healing and Love. Jamilah’s written work has also appeared in the Huffington Post, Learning for Justice, and EducationWeek. She has presented to audiences of thousands of educators both within the United States and internationally. Jamilah threads her passion for human rights and social justice into her teaching, writing, scholarship and other artistic pursuits. She sees education and healing as her life’s work and calling, and truly believes that education should be an avenue through which empathy, healing and justice are promoted. Jamilah is also certified as a Yoga Teacher, Reiki Practitioner, Omnoire Retreat Facilitator, and is certified as a Trauma - Conscious Yoga guide. She is a proud alumna of Spelman College where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in English. Jamilah also pursued graduate studies at Boston College and Teachers College, Columbia University and holds a Master of Education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/45866f74-a2f8-4c5a-b0ae-43c6162f7547/Jezz+Chung+by+Jay+Blacks.jpg Health, Healing and Care - Jezz Chung Jezz Chung (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores personal and collective change through the lens of race, gender, trauma, disability, and neurodivergence. They’ve been recognized internationally by Spain’s El País, Portugal’s Público, Vogue, Teen Vogue, Logo TV, and Made of Millions. You can listen to their podcast with Deem Journal titled Dreaming Different and read their debut collection of poetry, prose, and practices titled This Way to Change: A Gentle Guide to Personal Transformation and Collective Liberation. Jezz has lived in Georgia, Texas, California, and is now based in Brooklyn, New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1762980903505-1I3WANXM17W7UTQH83K5/Author%252Band%252BSpeaker%252BBridgett%252BM.%252BDavis%252BHeadshot%252Bby%252BNina%252BSubin%252BPhotography.jpg Health, Healing and Care - Bridgett M. Davis Bridgett M. Davis (pronounced Brih-jet) is the author of the memoir Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy, published by Harper Books in spring 2025. This moving memoir examines the vivacious life of Bridgett’s older sister Rita. It is full of joy and heartbreak, family history and American history, and uses Rita’s life as a lens to examine the persistent effects of racism in the lives of Black women. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/03dca8e9-5d55-46bf-b331-3f337fd29944/Lee+Hawkins+Headshot.jpg Health, Healing and Care - Lee Hawkins Lee Hawkins is the author of I Am Nobody’s Slave: How Uncovering My Family’s History Set Me Free (HarperCollins, January 2025), a critically acclaimed memoir that traces 400 years of his Black American family’s history through slavery, Jim Crow apartheid, and the intergenerational trauma that followed. His book is an introspective journey into his family history, tracing its roots to pre-Revolutionary America. Utilizing genetic testing, investigative reporting, and historical documentation, Mr. Hawkins explores 400 years of his family’s lineage, revealing the intertwined lives of Black and White families, their resilience and sufferings, and the impact of historical trauma. Mr. Hawkins was a 2023–2024 Rosalynn Carter Fellow for Mental Health Journalism and the 2024 Josephine Albright Fellow of the Alicia Patterson Foundation. He also received the 2024 McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism and was the 2022–2023 O’Brien Fellow for Public Service Journalism at Marquette University. He is a six-time winner of the National Association of Black Journalists' "Salute to Excellence" Award and was a 2018 USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism National Fellow, for reporting on child well-being. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701901918141-7N12MDLPAPKD6MDAMVFT/Jasmine%2BBrown%2Bauthor%2Bphoto%2Bpc%2BMarcy%2BBrown.jpeg Health, Healing and Care - Jasmine Brown Dr. Jasmine Brown began writing Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century when she was twenty-two. A 2018 recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship, she used her time at the University of Oxford to complete the in-depth research and oral histories synthesized in this book. In the spring of 2020, she graduated from Oxford with Merit, earning an M.Phil. in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology. That fall, she began medical school at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently finishing up her ophthalmology residency at Stanford University. Brown leverages her connection to her topic to create a work that is both immensely well-researched and personal. Dr. Brown has been involved in advocacy work for many years. She founded the Minority Association of Rising Scientists at her alma mater and served as its president, working to provide minority students with resources to get involved in research as well as a community to support them along the way. Increasing the number of underrepresented minorities in science and medicine is a lifelong dream of hers, and through her book, public events, and other efforts, she plans to inspire others and make her dream for the future of science and medicine a reality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/f276767b-4540-4d58-999c-d44ff7970020/SHERINE-HAMDY-1.jpg Health, Healing and Care - Sherine Hamdy A graphic novelist and Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of California-Irvine, Sherine Hamdy speaks nationally and internationally on the role of comics as a teaching tool and on social justice and representation in comics. She has led a seminar at Seattle Children’s Hospital, delivered the keynote address at DePauw University’s undergraduate conference in Science, Technology, Medicine and Society, and spoke on about social justice and comics at St. John’s University and Swarthmore. Sherine writes out of a desire to contribute to more honest depictions of Arab and Muslim Americans. Her young adult graphic novel, Jabs, illustrated by Myra El-Mir (forthcoming) tells the coming-of-age story of an Egyptian-American girl living in Long Island and struggling with her first year of college. In 2017, she published a graphic novel co-authored with Coleman Nye called Lissa: A Story of Friendship, Medical Promise, and Revolution (University of Toronto/EthnoGRAPHICS). This story draws on Sherine’s work on Muslim ethics and health care practices in Egypt, as well as Coleman Nye's research on women in the U.S. who test positive for the BRCA cancer gene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701901640915-8JN208LPCIF6SHX8F9EE/Kai%2BHarris.jpeg Health, Healing and Care - Kai Harris Kai Harris is a writer and educator from Detroit, Michigan, who uses her voice to uplift the Black community through realistic fiction centered on the experiences of Black girls and Black women. Kai's publication credits include Guernica, Lit Hub, The Everygirl, and The New York Times Book Review. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, What the Fireflies Knew, won the 2023 Phillis Wheatley Book Award in Fiction, was longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, was nominated for an NAACP Image Award, and was selected as a Marie Claire Book Club pick, amongst other honors. In addition to fiction, Kai has published poetry, personal essays, and peer-reviewed academic articles on topics related to Black girlhood and womanhood, the slave narrative genre, motherhood, and Black identity. A graduate of Western Michigan University’s PhD program, Kai was the recipient of the university’s Gwen Frostic Creative Writing Award in Fiction for her short story, “While We Live.” Kai now resides in the Bay Area with her family, where she loves to hike and visit the beach—and where she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Santa Clara University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1743193577954-1W1IQJLZPRMW7FDF8KHR/Priya%2BHuq1.jpg Health, Healing and Care - Priya Huq Priya Huq is a Bangladeshi Texan cartoonist living in New York who speaks widely on issues related to the comics industry, art, race, culture, identity and their intersections. Her appearances include the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, Emerald City Comic Con, and New York Comic Con. In her talks, Priya focuses on practical advice for marginalized artists and cartoonists. Audiences will learn how trauma affects an artist's brain and techniques for creating after trauma. Priya is an outspoken voice in the conversation around diversity in comics and her work explores race and multiculturalism in America. Priya draws and writes diverse comics, often in watercolor for all ages on a variety of topics and genres. Her comics work has been featured in The Nib, as well as in anthologies such as Habibi: A Muslim Love Story Anthology and Dirty Diamonds. Priya's first book, Piece by Piece: The Story of Nisrin's Hijab (Abrams ComicArts, 2021), is a young adult graphic novel featuring a fourteen-year-old girl, Nisrin, who begins to grapple with her cultural identity and sense of place in the world after a racist assault. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1746567734927-EIPYHJCQLCXIUO9L7IGW/GM%2BPHOTO%2B2_2024.jpg Health, Healing and Care - Gloria Muñoz Gloria Muñoz is a Colombian American writer, translator, and advocate for multilingual literacy. She is the author of This is the Year, Your Biome Has Found You, and Danzirly, which won the Ambroggio Prize and the Gold Medal Florida Book Award. Her other honors include an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, Hedgebrook Fellowship, being a Macondista, Highlights Foundation’s Diverse Verse Fellowship, Lumina’s Multilingual Writing Award, and a part of Las Musas. She is proud to be St. Pete's first Latina poet laureate. She provides writing workshops and talks about hope to those who have experiences sexual assault. She also helps mothers cultivate strategies to maintain their creative practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763050135084-CVSYWBZPTWOJ942A5RJS/Matthew+Salesses+Headshot.jpeg Health, Healing and Care - Matthew Salesses Dr. Matthew Salesses is the author of eight books, most recently The Sense of Wonder, the national bestseller Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping (a Best Book of 2021 at NPR, Esquire, Library Journal, Independent Book Review, Chicago Tribune, Electric Literature, and others), and the PEN/Faulkner Finalist and Dublin Literary Award longlisted novel Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear. He also wrote The Hundred-Year Flood; I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying; Different Racisms: On Stereotypes, the Individual, and Asian American Masculinity; The Last Repatriate; and Our Island of Epidemics (out of print). Forthcoming is a memoir, To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time (Little, Brown). He speaks widely on grief and adoption. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701738139363-RTG55IWFSS6JLSJOD8W6/Layla%2BSaad%2BAuthor%2BPhoto+%281%29.jpeg Health, Healing and Care - Layla F. Saad Layla F. Saad is the author of the ground-breaking Me and White Supremacy, an anti-racism education workbook that was initially offered for free in an Instagram challenge and in a self-published digital workbook in 2018 (downloaded by 100,000 people in the space of six months). Me and White Supremacy debuted on the New York Times and USA Today bestsellers lists. It is also an Amazon, Wall Street Journal, Indie, and Pacific Northwest bestseller. Most recently, she has adapted it for young adult audiences. Layla is an East African, Arab, British, Black, Muslim woman who was born and grew up in the West, and lives in the Middle East. Layla has always sat at a unique intersection of identities from which she is able to draw rich and intriguing perspectives. Her work is driven by her powerful desire to become a good ancestor; to live and work in ways that leave a legacy of healing and liberation for those who will come after she is gone. She also speaks openly about her late in life diagnosis of AuDHD. https://www.pandelectures.com/ethics-equity-and-repair daily 0.75 2026-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763052447855-29IWO53K5A47YY5TKNTF/Siva+Vaidhyanathan+Color+Headshot.jpeg Ethics, Equity, and Repair - Siva Vaidhyanathan As a cultural historian, media scholar and lecturer, Siva Vaidhyanathan speaks on the impact of digitalization on society and democracy. In his speeches, he encourages audiences to consider how technological advances like artificial intelligence, corporations like Google and algorithm-fueled social media platforms shape the way we think and what we can do to foster a new Internet ecosystem designed to benefit the whole world. At the University of Virginia, Vaidhyanathan serves as the Robertson Professor of Media Studies and the director of the Center for Media and Citizenship. He is a frequent contributor on media and cultural issues on public radio shows and news programs, notably BBC, CNN and NBC. Siva has authored several books, including Antisocial Media and The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763052447855-29IWO53K5A47YY5TKNTF/Siva+Vaidhyanathan+Color+Headshot.jpeg Ethics, Equity, and Repair - Siva Vaidhyanathan As a cultural historian, media scholar and lecturer, Siva Vaidhyanathan speaks on the impact of digitalization on society and democracy. In his speeches, he encourages audiences to consider how technological advances like artificial intelligence, corporations like Google and algorithm-fueled social media platforms shape the way we think and what we can do to foster a new Internet ecosystem designed to benefit the whole world. At the University of Virginia, Vaidhyanathan serves as the Robertson Professor of Media Studies and the director of the Center for Media and Citizenship. He is a frequent contributor on media and cultural issues on public radio shows and news programs, notably BBC, CNN and NBC. Siva has authored several books, including Antisocial Media and The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763052645066-E63HF6N4UDXZTV0MBAU9/Brando.png Ethics, Equity, and Repair - Brando Simeo Starkey Brando Simeo Starkey is a writer and scholar. A graduate of Harvard Law School and a member of the New York Bar, he taught law at Villanova Law School and wrote for several years for ESPN’s The Undefeated (now Andscape). Born and raised in Cincinnati, he lives in Southern California with his wife and two sons. He has launched a newsletter, The Braveverse, about law, politics, and freedom from caste, at the TheBraveverse.com and a YouTube channel covering the same themes at https://www.youtube.com/@TheBraveverse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763047110644-F07H9B5EDCLCYHRYVK86/Davarian-L.-Baldwin.-Photo-by-VisionMerge-Productions.jpg Ethics, Equity, and Repair - Davarian L. Baldwin Dr. Davarian L. Baldwin is an internationally recognized scholar, historian, and public advocate. He is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Founding Director of the Smart Cities Research Lab at Trinity College. A foremost expert on Black social movements and African American history, he is often called upon to consult on everything from the politics of reparations to the global impact of the Harlem Renaissance. His academic and political commitments have focused on global cities and particularly the diverse and marginalized communities that struggle to maintain sustainable lives in urban locales. Baldwin is the award-winning author of several books including In The Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities (2021), Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life (2007), and Land of Darkness: Chicago and the Making of Race in Modern America (forthcoming from Oxford University Press). He also served as the consultant and text author for The World of the Harlem Renaissance: A Jigsaw Puzzle (2022). Baldwin’s research, writing, and commentaries have been featured in numerous outlets from NPR, NBC News, CNN, PBS, BBC, The History Channel, and HULU to USA Today, The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and TIME. In 2022, Baldwin was named a Freedom Scholar by the Marguerite Casey Foundation for his work in racial and economic justice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1708723278250-54FOAK5D7NDD3C12C7HS/Amrita%2BHeadshots%2BSept%2B2018-amrita-0013.jpeg Ethics, Equity, and Repair - Amrita Chakrabarti Myers Amrita Chakrabarti Myers is an award-winning archival historian, writer, educator, and community-based organizer. She earned her doctorate in US History from Rutgers University and specializes in Black Women’s History, Antebellum History, Slavery, and the American South. A committed activist both on and off campus, Myers is regularly interviewed by media outlets ranging from PBS and NPR to Fox News on issues of race and gender justice, and she has published editorials and articles on policing, anti-Blackness, and racism writ large in a variety of newspapers including the Washington Post and the Louisville Courier-Journal. Her first book, Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2011 and received several awards including the 2012 Julia Cherry Spruill Book Prize from the Southern Association of Women Historians and the 2011 Anna Julia Cooper-C.L.R. James Book Prize from the National Council for Black Studies. Her latest book, The Vice President’s Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn (Ferris & Ferris, 2023) is now available at all retailers. She is currently the Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor of History and Gender Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington where she is also the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/45866f74-a2f8-4c5a-b0ae-43c6162f7547/Jezz+Chung+by+Jay+Blacks.jpg Ethics, Equity, and Repair - Jezz Chung Jezz Chung is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores personal and collective change through the lens of race, gender, trauma, disability, and neurodivergence. They’ve been recognized internationally by Spain’s El País, Portugal’s Público, Vogue, Teen Vogue, Logo TV, and Made of Millions. You can listen to their podcast with Deem Journal titled Dreaming Different and read their debut collection of poetry, prose, and practices titled This Way to Change: A Gentle Guide to Personal Transformation and Collective Liberation. Jezz has lived in Georgia, Texas, California, and is now based in Brooklyn, New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1719603468560-B40VDJ6JJNEWLAA16FLS/Raquel_Cepeda_1.jpg Ethics, Equity, and Repair - Raquel Cepeda Born in Harlem to Dominican parents, Raquel Cepeda is an award-winning journalist, cultural activist, podcaster, and documentary filmmaker who travels widely to speak to diverse audiences about Latina identity, social justice, gentrification and inequality. Her book Bird of Paradise explores the realities of the American Dream within the context of exploring her ancestry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/03dca8e9-5d55-46bf-b331-3f337fd29944/Lee+Hawkins+Headshot.jpg Ethics, Equity, and Repair - Lee Hawkins "The beauty and promise of America lies in our ability to confront even the most painful parts of our history—not to shame ourselves, but to better understand who we are and who we still have the power to become." Lee Hawkins is an American investigative journalist and author who was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2022. His most recent work, I Am Nobody’s Slave: How Uncovering My Family’s History Set Me Free, focuses on how our understanding of history impacts intergenerational healing and follows an introspective journey into his family history, tracing his roots to pre-Revolutionary America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1762980583048-9XS48IASHM399J4TTY9W/Nicholas%2BBuccola%2BHeadshot.jpg Ethics, Equity, and Repair - Nicholas Buccola Nicholas Buccola is a philosopher, author, and teacher who specializes in the area of American political thought. He is the author of One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle over an American Ideal (Princeton University Press, October 2025). His previous books include The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America (Princeton University, 2019) and The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty (New York University Press, 2012). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701901918141-7N12MDLPAPKD6MDAMVFT/Jasmine%2BBrown%2Bauthor%2Bphoto%2Bpc%2BMarcy%2BBrown.jpeg Ethics, Equity, and Repair - Jasmine Brown Dr. Jasmine Brown began writing TWICE AS HARD when she was twenty-two. A 2018 recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship, she used her time at the University of Oxford to complete the in-depth research into the lives of the first Black women who became physicians in the United States. She graduated from Oxford with Merit, earning an M.Phil. in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology before pursuing her medical degree. As a Black woman in medicine, Jasmine advocates for more representation within medicine and delivers talks that are both well-researched and personal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1711044664342-2X3F8D98F2XUDLXAPXKX/speaker+and+author+myisha+cherry+headshot.jpg Ethics, Equity, and Repair - Myisha Cherry Dr. Myisha Cherry is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. She is also the Director of the Emotion and Society Lab. Her research is primarily concerned with the role of emotions and attitudes in public life. Cherry’s books include UnMuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice, The Moral Psychology of Anger which she co-edited with Owen Flanagan, and The Case for Rage: Why Anger is Essential to Anti-racist Struggle. In her latest book, Failures of Forgiveness: What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better, Dr. Cherry presents a new and healthier understanding of forgiveness—one that will give us a better chance to recover from wrongdoing and move toward “radical repair.” Her work on emotions and race has appeared in The Atlantic, Boston Review, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Huffington Post, WomanKind, and New Philosopher Magazine. Dr. Cherry is also the host of the UnMute Podcast, where she interviews philosophers about the social and political issues of our day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1762980903505-1I3WANXM17W7UTQH83K5/Author%252Band%252BSpeaker%252BBridgett%252BM.%252BDavis%252BHeadshot%252Bby%252BNina%252BSubin%252BPhotography.jpg Ethics, Equity, and Repair - Bridgett M. Davis Bridgett M. Davis is the award-winning author of the memoirs Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy and The World According To Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life In The Detroit Numbers. Davis is also the writer and director of the 1998 award-winning feature film Naked Acts, newly restored by Milestone Films and released in 2024 to critical acclaim, and screening in theaters across the US as well as international venues. She is is Professor Emerita in the Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center, where she taught creative, narrative and film writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1762979281271-BXH15RUMRETLQPA3K4LN/ANDREA%252BFREEMAN_Headshot.webp Ethics, Equity, and Repair - Andrea Freeman Andrea Freeman is an author, law professor, and Fulbright scholar. She is a national and international expert on the intersections of race and food policy, health, and consumer credit. Her pioneering theory of food oppression reveals how food law and policy, influenced by corporate interests, leads to race and gender health disparities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701902132485-GN7LMNTVRS6A87E01K5S/Sherine%2BHamdy.jpeg Ethics, Equity, and Repair - Sherine Hamdy A graphic novelist and Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of California-Irvine, Sherine Hamdy speaks nationally and internationally on the role of comics as a teaching tool and on social justice and representation in comics. Sherine writes out of a desire to contribute to more honest depictions of Arab and Muslim Americans, particularly in the space of bioethics. In 2017, she published a graphic novel co-authored with Coleman Nye called Lissa: A Story of Friendship, Medical Promise, and Revolution (University of Toronto/EthnoGRAPHICS). This story draws on Sherine’s work on Muslim ethics and health care practices in Egypt, as well as Coleman Nye's research on women in the U.S. who test positive for the BRCA cancer gene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/c470e022-83e2-4b63-bdf9-c88c82cd85ce/Layla+Saad+Author+Photo.JPG Ethics, Equity, and Repair - Layla F. Saad Layla F. Saad is the author of the ground-breaking Me and White Supremacy, an anti-racism education workbook that was initially offered for free in an Instagram challenge and in a self-published digital workbook in 2018 (downloaded by 100,000 people in the space of six months). Me and White Supremacy debuted on the New York Times and USA Today bestsellers lists. It is also an Amazon, Wall Street Journal, Indie, and Pacific Northwest bestseller. Most recently, she has adapted it for young adult audiences. Layla is an East African, Arab, British, Black, Muslim woman who was born and grew up in the West, and lives in the Middle East. Layla has always sat at a unique intersection of identities from which she is able to draw rich and intriguing perspectives. Her work is driven by her powerful desire to become a good ancestor; to live and work in ways that leave a legacy of healing and liberation for those who will come after she is gone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1762980049593-SI4ENO8CW1NVVXNVFHAS/Susan%2BAbulhawa%2BHeadshot.jpg Ethics, Equity, and Repair - Susan Abulhawa A political commentator and contributor to broadcast news outlets, Susan Abulhawa speaks widely on the subjects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the power of storytelling, particularly for marginalized communities. Susan is the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine, a non-profit organization dedicated to upholding the Right to Play for Palestinian children under Israeli occupation and in refugee camps outside of Palestine. Susan is one of the most widely-read Arab authors. Her debut novel, Mornings in Jenin, is a multigenerational family epic spanning five countries and more than sixty years. With an unflinching look at the Palestinian question, it was translated into thirty languages and became an international bestseller. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1772813975475-QC3JR8SH6239LPW4YFMX/SafiyaUmojaNoble_Credit_Stella_Kallnina-1-scaled.jpg Ethics, Equity, and Repair - Safiya U. Noble "We use these technologies thinking they’re democratic. But at the same time that the companies are optimizing for maximum profit, they're telling us that these systems are neutral, that they're reliable information resources. Nothing could be further from the truth." Safiya U. Noble is am internationally recognized voice in AI ethics. She specializes in the areas of public policy and algorithmic bias, but also addresses how AI will impact our future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/43871440-9335-4ba0-a40b-7c98276a4e0e/headshot+2024.JPG Ethics, Equity, and Repair - TIERA TANKSLEY Dr. Tiera Tanksley is a Senior Researcher whose work examines the socioemotional, mental health and academic impacts of digital and artificially intelligent technologies on Black youth. Her work examines anti-Blackness as the “default setting” of schools and school-based technologies, including GenAI chatbots, facial recognition systems, weapons detection systems, and more. https://www.pandelectures.com/lived-experiences daily 0.75 2025-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1765569709461-U6GB31TMYZW3OBJ4MARY/1.png Lived Experience https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1765569709461-U6GB31TMYZW3OBJ4MARY/1.png Lived Experience https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1765240902707-NT6QHQI8AX51DTZBP941/Screenshot+2025-12-08+at+2.41.27%E2%80%AFPM.png Lived Experience - Disability, Neurodivergence, and Intersectionality https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1765412245334-VV0GB2TR4I41OJXRCW43/2.png Lived Experience https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1765412236281-DUONOTF0HE66Y5GRWJC6/3.png Lived Experience https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1765412217577-JPUKR8368OA9N1IY52NV/5.png Lived Experience https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1765832746189-JGY1BBK2KAHY4Y5VLW3X/6.png Lived Experience https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1765412228927-42DZZ0Q5MUDIUQDISBLO/4.png Lived Experience - Women's Empowerment https://www.pandelectures.com/cultural-heritage-gallery daily 0.75 2026-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1719603468560-B40VDJ6JJNEWLAA16FLS/Raquel_Cepeda_1.jpg Cultural Heritage Speakers - Raquel Cepeda Born in Harlem to Dominican parents, Raquel Cepeda is an award-winning journalist, cultural activist, podcaster, and documentary filmmaker who travels widely to speak to diverse audiences about Latina identity, social justice, gentrification and inequality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1719603468560-B40VDJ6JJNEWLAA16FLS/Raquel_Cepeda_1.jpg Cultural Heritage Speakers - Raquel Cepeda Born in Harlem to Dominican parents, Raquel Cepeda is an award-winning journalist, cultural activist, podcaster, and documentary filmmaker who travels widely to speak to diverse audiences about Latina identity, social justice, gentrification and inequality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1743194358622-AEDVTBPUCKE16T4RL6ZN/GM+PHOTO+2_2024.jpg Cultural Heritage Speakers - Gloria Muñoz Gloria Muñoz is a Colombian American writer, translator, and advocate for multilingual literacy. She is the author of This is the Year, Your Biome Has Found You, and Danzirly, which won the Ambroggio Prize and the Gold Medal Florida Book Award. Her other honors include an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, Hedgebrook Fellowship, being a Macondista, Highlights Foundation’s Diverse Verse Fellowship, Lumina’s Multilingual Writing Award, and a part of Las Musas. She is proud to be St. Pete's first Latina poet laureate. Through Moonlit Música, a bilingual media company she co-founded, she writes narrative scripts and songs for children, adolescent, and adult programming. Notable clients include The New York Times, Comedy Central, hulu, Rebel Girls, Apple tv, Google, FX, and Hatch, for which she has developed beloved sleep story characters, including Mari Mariposa, a bilingual butterfly with a passion for community building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701901575548-I7GXE3RYE1EDENHJBEYL/Patricia%2BEngel.jpeg Cultural Heritage Speakers - Patricia Engel Patricia Engel is the author of five works of fiction. Her most recent book, a short story collection titled The Faraway World, was a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, longlisted for The Story Prize, and named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year, and a Boston Globe Best Book of the Year. Patricia has been awarded the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and an O. Henry Award. Her books have been translated into many languages and selected as an NEA Big Read. Born to Colombian parents and raised in New Jersey, Patricia is a graduate of New York University and earned her MFA at Florida International University. She is a Professor of English in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Miami. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763050135084-CVSYWBZPTWOJ942A5RJS/Matthew+Salesses+Headshot.jpeg Cultural Heritage Speakers - Matthew Salesses Matthew Salesses is a novelist, scholar, and Korean adoptee who has written and spoken widely on the subjects of adoption, race, Asian American culture, Korean media, and parenting. His acclaimed first novel, The Hundred-Year Flood, was an Amazon Bestseller and, among other honors, a Best Book of the season at Buzzfeed, Refinery29, and Gawker. His newest novel, The Sense of Wonder, was recently published to great acclaim and optioned by HBO. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1719601650766-DU2A0F0ULOK19IN947W1/Annabelle%2BTometich%2Bheadshot%2Bvert.jpg Cultural Heritage Speakers - Annabelle Tometich Annabelle Tometich went from medical-school reject to line cook to journalist to author. She spent 18 years as a food writer and restaurant critic for The News-Press in her hometown of Fort Myers, Florida. Her first book, The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony (2024, Little Brown) explores her relationship with her Filipina mother and was called “sweet, sharp” by The New York Times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1719601442616-HUQAXLZWO6JCP72B9SQY/Akemi%2BJohnson%2B%281%29.jpg Cultural Heritage Speakers - Akemi Johnson Author of Night in the American Village and a forthcoming title about her grandfather’s experiences at Tule Lake Concentration Camp, Akemi Johnson strives to advance racial equity, social justice, and human rights in her writing and work. She is an educator at the Fred T. Korematsu Institute, where she teaches the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans and promotes the importance of remembering this history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1743193577954-1W1IQJLZPRMW7FDF8KHR/Priya%2BHuq1.jpg Cultural Heritage Speakers - Priya Huq Priya Huq is a Bangladeshi Texan cartoonist living in New York who speaks widely on issues related to the comics industry, art, race, culture, identity and their intersections. Her appearances include the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, Emerald City Comic Con, and New York Comic Con. In her talks, Priya focuses on practical advice for marginalized artists and cartoonists. Audiences will learn how trauma affects an artist's brain and techniques for creating after trauma. Priya is an outspoken voice in the conversation around diversity in comics and her work explores race and multiculturalism in America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/bf385077-7fe8-4eb8-a389-b9c453734db5/Susan%2BAbulhawa%2BHeadshot.jpg Cultural Heritage Speakers - Susan Abulhawa A political commentator and contributor to broadcast news outlets, Susan Abulhawa is one of the most widely read Arab authors in the world. She speaks widely on the subjects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the power of storytelling, particularly for marginalized communities. Susan is the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine, a non-profit organization dedicated to upholding the Right to Play for Palestinian children under Israeli occupation and in refugee camps outside of Palestine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701902132485-GN7LMNTVRS6A87E01K5S/Sherine%2BHamdy.jpeg Cultural Heritage Speakers - Sherine Hamdy A graphic novelist and Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of California-Irvine, Sherine Hamdy speaks nationally and internationally on the role of comics as a teaching tool and on social justice and representation in comics. Sherine writes out of a desire to contribute to more honest depictions of Arab and Muslim Americans, particularly in the space of bioethics. In 2017, she published a graphic novel co-authored with Coleman Nye called Lissa: A Story of Friendship, Medical Promise, and Revolution (University of Toronto/EthnoGRAPHICS). This story draws on Sherine’s work on Muslim ethics and health care practices in Egypt, as well as Coleman Nye's research on women in the U.S. who test positive for the BRCA cancer gene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/9f1b77db-cb67-4726-bb62-cd18520d1c81/Joel-Christian-Gill-600x600-1-600x600.jpg Cultural Heritage Speakers - Joel Christian Gill Joel Christian Gill is the Inaugural Chair of Boston University’s Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Visual Narrative and Associate Professor in the CFA School of Visual Arts. He is also a cartoonist and historian who speaks nationally on the importance of sharing stories and uplifting Black history all year long. He is the author of the acclaimed memoir Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence, cited as one of the best graphic novels of 2020 by The New York Times and for which he was awarded the 2021 Cartoonist Studio Prize. He also created the art for the graphic novel adaption of Stamped from the Beginning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/03dca8e9-5d55-46bf-b331-3f337fd29944/Lee+Hawkins+Headshot.jpg Cultural Heritage Speakers - Lee Hawkins "The beauty and promise of America lies in our ability to confront even the most painful parts of our history—not to shame ourselves, but to better understand who we are and who we still have the power to become." Lee Hawkins is an American investigative journalist and author who was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2022. His most recent work, I Am Nobody’s Slave: How Uncovering My Family’s History Set Me Free, is an introspective journey into his family history, tracing its roots through Jim Crow Era and enslavement to pre-Revolutionary America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763048766085-UK045EOROY2YLJ31WKCN/Trevor+Baldwin+-+Photo+Credit+Burroughs+Lamar.png Cultural Heritage Speakers - Trevor Baldwin Trevor Baldwin is the nephew of James Baldwin and his godmother was Maya Angelou. He speaks of his personal experiences growing up with these two icons of Black literature and protecting their cultural legacy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763046176643-1UUP7UZJT3VOJ9F1R4TT/AllisaVRichardson_Headshot_PhotoCredit_1%252B_%252BDaJuana%252BJones.jpg Cultural Heritage Speakers - Allissa Richardson “I build technologies that remember—so the world can’t forget. Each line of code holds a testimony, each archive a reckoning. My work gathers what injustice tried to erase, and reimagines what justice has yet to be.” Dr. Allissa V. Richardson is an award-winning journalist, author, and associate professor at USC Annenberg. She founded the Charlotta Bass Journalism & Justice Lab, where she leads the Second Draft Project—an AI-powered oral history initiative preserving the voices of those impacted by police violence. The three-time Harvard Fellow is the author of Bearing Witness While Black and the forthcoming Canceled (MIT Press). Her work explores reparative journalism, Black witnessing, and the ethics of emerging technologies in media. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763054686573-SERR91X9ZFTM1BHGVZNY/danyel+smith+headshot.jpg Cultural Heritage Speakers - Danyel Smith From VIBE editor-in-chief to Stanford Fellow to the New York Times —decode culture with America's most astute pop chronicler. Award-winning journalist Danyel Smith is author of the critically-acclaimed Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop (One World / Penguin Random House, April 2022). Danyel is also creator/host of the popular Black Girl Songbook, a podcast that centers the sounds and stories of black women (Spotify Original). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1762980903505-1I3WANXM17W7UTQH83K5/Author%252Band%252BSpeaker%252BBridgett%252BM.%252BDavis%252BHeadshot%252Bby%252BNina%252BSubin%252BPhotography.jpg Cultural Heritage Speakers - Bridgett M. Davis Bridgett M. Davis is the award-winning author of the memoirs Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy and The World According To Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life In The Detroit Numbers. Davis is also the writer and director of the 1998 award-winning feature film Naked Acts, newly restored by Milestone Films and released in 2024 to critical acclaim, and screening in theaters across the US as well as international venues. She is is Professor Emerita in the Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center, where she taught creative, narrative and film writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701901918141-7N12MDLPAPKD6MDAMVFT/Jasmine%2BBrown%2Bauthor%2Bphoto%2Bpc%2BMarcy%2BBrown.jpeg Cultural Heritage Speakers - Jasmine Brown Dr. Jasmine Brown began writing Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century when she was twenty-two. A 2018 recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship, she used her time at the University of Oxford to complete the in-depth research and oral histories synthesized in this book. In the spring of 2020, she graduated from Oxford with Merit, earning an M.Phil. in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology. That fall, she began medical school at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently finishing up her ophthalmology residency at Stanford University. Brown leverages her connection to her topic to create a work that is both immensely well-researched and personal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1701902254540-EHQNB6EZQAI40AJXQECP/IMG_8043%2B-%2BLadee%2BHubbard.jpeg Cultural Heritage Speakers - Ladee Hubbard Ladee Hubbard is the author of two novels: The Talented Ribkins which received the 2017 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and the 2018 Hurston-Wright Award for Debut Fiction, and The Rib King (2021). The Last Suspicious Holdout (2022), her collection of short stories, explores the relationships between friends, family and strangers in a Black neighborhood over fifteen years. Her acclaimed scholarship includes a focus on marginalized women in literature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/503a61fb-87a7-43f5-8923-f3aaa60058c1/Kai%2BHarris%2BAuthor%2BPhoto-1.jpg Cultural Heritage Speakers - Kai Harris Kai Harris is a writer and educator from Detroit, Michigan, who uses her voice to uplift the Black community through realistic fiction centered on the experiences of Black girls and Black women. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, What the Fireflies Knew, won the 2023 Phillis Wheatley Book Award in Fiction, was longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, was nominated for an NAACP Image Award, and was selected as a Marie Claire Book Club pick, amongst other honors. She also speaks passionately Black mental health, particularly through the lenses of marriage and motherhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/aad2747e-67e4-43b3-ada7-1257174e53a0/Jamilah-Pitts-Headshot-by-Chloe-Jackman-Photography.jpg Cultural Heritage Speakers - Jamilah Pitts Jamilah Pitts is an author, educator, social entrepreneur, and wellness guide whose work centers the liberation, healing and holistic development of communities of the Global Majority. In particular, Jamilah trains others to support Black girls and girlhood. Jamilah has worked and served in various roles and spaces to promote racial justice and healing and is the author of Toward Liberation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1615587152916-6ZX8T4DA8YBA47JB98MV/Layla+Saad+Author+Photo.JPG Cultural Heritage Speakers - Layla F. Saad Layla F. Saad is the author of the ground-breaking Me and White Supremacy, an anti-racism education workbook that debuted on the New York Times and USA Today bestsellers lists. It is also an Amazon, Wall Street Journal, Indie, and Pacific Northwest bestseller. Layla is an East African, Arab, British, Black, Muslim, neurodivergent woman who was born and grew up in the West, and lives in the Middle East. Layla has always sat at a unique intersection of identities from which she is able to draw rich and intriguing perspectives and share them with others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1765168697405-4CC420230PF5HMJMSYIU/Jezz%2BChung%2Bheadshot%2B2024%2Bphoto%2Bby%2BMary%2BKang.webp Cultural Heritage Speakers - Jezz Chung “More often than not conversations about autism are led by people who parent autistic children or care for an autistic person in their life. While these are important pathways to collective understanding, autistic people themselves can no longer afford to be left out of the discourse.” Jezz Chung is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores personal and collective change through the lens of race, gender, trauma, disability, and neurodivergence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/a2311399-f166-4140-a1e8-820a54a3a641/Kristen+Arnett+Headshot.jpg Cultural Heritage Speakers - Kristen Arnett Kristen Arnett is the queer author of With Teeth: A Novel (Riverhead Books, 2021) which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction and the NYT bestselling debut novel Mostly Dead Things (Tin House, 2019) which was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction and was shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Her latest novel Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One (Riverhead Books, 2025) explores the themes of humor and community. Kristen speaks widely on the topics of intellection freedom and queer authorship. She currently writes a popular column for LitHub and has a Masters in Library and Information Science from Florida State University. She lives in Orlando, Florida. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763044565418-M027X10BFVSDJG2IHJ7O/HafizahGeter110921_048BeowulfSheehan_ecopy%252B%25281%2529.jpg Cultural Heritage Speakers - Hafizah Augustus Geter Hafizah Augustus Geter is a Nigerian-American poet, writer, and literary agent born in Zaria, Nigeria, and raised in Akron, Ohio, and Columbia, South Carolina. Her debut memoir, The Black Period: On Personhood, Race & Origin, won the 2023 PEN Open Book Award. Hafizah is also the author of the debut poetry collection Un-American, nominated for a 2021 NAACP Image Award, a finalist for the 2021 PEN Open Book Award, and longlisted for the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/0236ba70-8c7a-40a2-887a-5fb10e252ada/Tony+Keith+Jr.jpg Cultural Heritage Speakers - Tony Keith Jr. Anthony R. Keith, Jr., Ph.D. (Tony) is a Black, gay spoken word artist, poet, and Hip-Hop educator. His debut, How the Boogeyman Became a Poet, is a powerful YA memoir in verse, tracing his journey from being a closeted gay Black teen battling poverty, racism, and homophobia to becoming an openly gay first-generation college student who finds freedom in poetry. He uses his knowledge in educational leadership to help students find their voice and teaches educators how to do the same. https://www.pandelectures.com/disability-neurodivergence daily 0.75 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/45866f74-a2f8-4c5a-b0ae-43c6162f7547/image-asset.jpeg Disability and Neurodivergence - Jezz Chung “But I’ve come to love my neurodivergence. It informs the depth of my artistry and my capacity to care for others. In a world that constantly frames disability as a disease[…] loving myself fully is an act of resistance. I wish it weren’t that way.” Jezz Chung is a multidisciplinary artist and author whose work explores personal and collective change through the lens of race, gender, trauma, disability, and neurodivergence. They’ve been recognized internationally by Spain’s El País, Portugal’s Público, Vogue, Teen Vogue, Logo TV, and Made of Millions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/45866f74-a2f8-4c5a-b0ae-43c6162f7547/image-asset.jpeg Disability and Neurodivergence - Jezz Chung “But I’ve come to love my neurodivergence. It informs the depth of my artistry and my capacity to care for others. In a world that constantly frames disability as a disease[…] loving myself fully is an act of resistance. I wish it weren’t that way.” Jezz Chung is a multidisciplinary artist and author whose work explores personal and collective change through the lens of race, gender, trauma, disability, and neurodivergence. They’ve been recognized internationally by Spain’s El País, Portugal’s Público, Vogue, Teen Vogue, Logo TV, and Made of Millions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1765168665377-9G7E2OH5M4Z9VFHODYA6/Layla%2BSaad%2BAuthor%2BPhoto.webp Disability and Neurodivergence - Layla F. Saad Layla F. Saad is the author of the ground-breaking Me and White Supremacy, an anti-racism education workbook that debuted on the New York Times and USA Today bestsellers lists. Layla is an East African, Arab, British, Black, Muslim, neurodivergent woman who was born and grew up in the West, and lives in the Middle East. Layla has always sat at a unique intersection of identities from which she is able to draw rich and intriguing perspectives and share them with others. https://www.pandelectures.com/multiracial-transracial-and-mixed-identities daily 0.75 2025-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1719601442616-HUQAXLZWO6JCP72B9SQY/Akemi%2BJohnson%2B%281%29.jpg Multiracial, Transracial, and Mixed Identities - Akemi Johnson Author of Night in the American Village, Akemi Johnson strives to advance racial equity, social justice, and human rights in her writing and work. She is an educator at the Fred T. Korematsu Institute, where she teaches the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans and promotes the importance of remembering this history. She speaks widely on mixed-race identity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1719601442616-HUQAXLZWO6JCP72B9SQY/Akemi%2BJohnson%2B%281%29.jpg Multiracial, Transracial, and Mixed Identities - Akemi Johnson Author of Night in the American Village, Akemi Johnson strives to advance racial equity, social justice, and human rights in her writing and work. She is an educator at the Fred T. Korematsu Institute, where she teaches the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans and promotes the importance of remembering this history. She speaks widely on mixed-race identity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763045508508-SA8HHB4Y7KJTXPHZR623/Tiffany%252BJewell.jpg Multiracial, Transracial, and Mixed Identities - Tiffany Jewell Tiffany Jewell is a Black biracial writer, twin sister, first generation American, cisgender mama, anti-bias antiracist (ABAR) educator, and consultant. She is the author of the #1 New York Times and #1 Indie Bestseller, This Book Is Anti-Racist, a book for young folks and everyone to wake up, take action, and do the work of becoming antiracist. She helps audiences of all ages understand topics of identity and how to talk about them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763050135084-CVSYWBZPTWOJ942A5RJS/Matthew+Salesses+Headshot.jpeg Multiracial, Transracial, and Mixed Identities - Matthew Salesses Matthew Salesses is a novelist, scholar, and Korean adoptee who has written and spoken widely on the subjects of adoption, race, Asian-American identity, masculinity and parenting. His acclaimed first novel, The Hundred-Year Flood, was an Amazon Bestseller and, among other honors, a Best Book of the season at Buzzfeed, Refinery29, and Gawker. His newest novel, The Sense of Wonder, was recently published to great acclaim and optioned by HBO. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/d4f83537-af6e-4fac-bd0a-3da12f0873e3/Raquel_Cepeda_2HR.jpg Multiracial, Transracial, and Mixed Identities - Raquel Cepeda Born in Harlem to Dominican parents, Raquel Cepeda is an award-winning journalist, cultural activist, podcaster, and documentary filmmaker who travels widely to speak to diverse audiences about Latina identity, social justice, gentrification and inequality. Her book Bird of Paradise explores the realities of the American Dream within the context of exploring her ancestry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763044565418-M027X10BFVSDJG2IHJ7O/HafizahGeter110921_048BeowulfSheehan_ecopy%252B%25281%2529.jpg Multiracial, Transracial, and Mixed Identities - Hafizah Augustus Geter Hafizah Augustus Geter is a Nigerian-American poet, writer, and literary agent born in Zaria, Nigeria, and raised in Akron, Ohio, and Columbia, South Carolina. Her debut memoir, The Black Period: On Personhood, Race & Origin, (Random House, 2022) won the 2023 PEN Open Book Award, the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Nonfiction in addition to being a 2023 Chautauqua Prize Finalist, a New Yorker Magazine Best Book of 2022, a Good Morning America Anticipated Book, and an Amazon's Best of the Month Editor's Pick. She speaks about race, identity, intersectionality, and belonging. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1762981121140-QTXZO74C1ILBULGM4DRB/Patricia%252BEngel.jpg Multiracial, Transracial, and Mixed Identities - Patricia Engel Patricia Engel is the author of five works of fiction. Her most recent book, a short story collection titled The Faraway World, was a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, longlisted for The Story Prize, and named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year, and a Boston Globe Best Book of the Year. Her novel Infinite Country, a New York Times bestseller, won the New American Voices Award, a Florida Book Award, was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Her books consider powerful perspectives on identity and belonging. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1765168665377-9G7E2OH5M4Z9VFHODYA6/Layla%2BSaad%2BAuthor%2BPhoto.webp Multiracial, Transracial, and Mixed Identities - Layla F. Saad Layla F. Saad is the author of the ground-breaking Me and White Supremacy, an anti-racism education workbook that debuted on the New York Times and USA Today bestsellers lists. It is also an Amazon, Wall Street Journal, Indie, and Pacific Northwest bestseller. Layla is an East African, Arab, British, Black, Muslim, neurodivergent woman who was born and grew up in the West, and lives in the Middle East. Layla has always sat at a unique intersection of identities from which she is able to draw rich and intriguing perspectives and share them with others. https://www.pandelectures.com/migration-immigration-refuge daily 0.75 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1762980049593-SI4ENO8CW1NVVXNVFHAS/Susan%2BAbulhawa%2BHeadshot.jpg Migration, Immigration, and Refuge - Susan Abulhawa A political commentator and contributor to broadcast news outlets, Susan Abulhawa speaks widely about the power of storytelling, particularly for marginalized communities. Susan is the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine, a non-profit organization dedicated to upholding the Right to Play for Palestinian children under Israeli occupation and in refugee camps outside of Palestine. Susan is one of the most widely-read Arab authors. Her debut novel, Mornings in Jenin, is a multigenerational family epic spanning five countries and more than sixty years. With an unflinching look at the Palestinian question, it was translated into thirty languages and became an international bestseller. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1762980049593-SI4ENO8CW1NVVXNVFHAS/Susan%2BAbulhawa%2BHeadshot.jpg Migration, Immigration, and Refuge - Susan Abulhawa A political commentator and contributor to broadcast news outlets, Susan Abulhawa speaks widely about the power of storytelling, particularly for marginalized communities. Susan is the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine, a non-profit organization dedicated to upholding the Right to Play for Palestinian children under Israeli occupation and in refugee camps outside of Palestine. Susan is one of the most widely-read Arab authors. Her debut novel, Mornings in Jenin, is a multigenerational family epic spanning five countries and more than sixty years. With an unflinching look at the Palestinian question, it was translated into thirty languages and became an international bestseller. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1762981121140-QTXZO74C1ILBULGM4DRB/Patricia%252BEngel.jpg Migration, Immigration, and Refuge - Patricia Engel "Engel's vital story of a divided Colombian family is a book we need to read... The rare immigrant chronicle that is as long on hope as it is on heartbreak.” —Kirkus Reviews Born to Colombian parents and raised in New Jersey, Patricia Engel is the award-winning author of five books, and is a Professor of English in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Miami. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763049744096-M7XPRY3WDAZI2X844HVU/Wendy%252BPearlman%252BHeadshot.jpg Migration, Immigration, and Refuge - Wendy Pearlman Wendy Pearlman is a scholar of Middle East politics and author of the critically-acclaimed We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria, a mosaic of first-hand Syrian testimonials that chronicles the Syrian uprising, war and refugee crisis as well as its follow-up oral historyThe Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora. Wendy lectures around the world in English and Arabic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763046674285-3GXFGZMCANKI0BTXNT16/Annabelle%252BTometich%252Bheadshot%252Bvert.jpg Migration, Immigration, and Refuge - Annabelle Tometich Annabelle Tometich went from medical-school reject to line cook to journalist to author. She spent 18 years as a food writer and restaurant critic for The News-Press in her hometown of Fort Myers, Florida. Her first book, The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony (2024, Little Brown) was called “sweet, sharp” by The New York Times and won the 2025 Southern Book Prize for Nonfiction. She candidly shares stories of immigrants and children-of-immigrants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1746567734927-EIPYHJCQLCXIUO9L7IGW/GM%2BPHOTO%2B2_2024.jpg Migration, Immigration, and Refuge - Gloria Muñoz Gloria Muñoz is a Colombian American writer, translator, and advocate for multilingual literacy. She is the author of This is the Year, Your Biome Has Found You, and Danzirly, which won the Ambroggio Prize and the Gold Medal Florida Book Award. Her other honors include an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, Hedgebrook Fellowship, being a Macondista, Highlights Foundation’s Diverse Verse Fellowship, Lumina’s Multilingual Writing Award, and a part of Las Musas. She is proud to be St. Pete's first Latina poet laureate. Through Moonlit Música, a bilingual media company she co-founded, she writes narrative scripts and songs for children, adolescent, and adult programming. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/d4f83537-af6e-4fac-bd0a-3da12f0873e3/Raquel_Cepeda_2HR.jpg Migration, Immigration, and Refuge Born in Harlem to Dominican parents, award-winning filmmaker and writer Raquel Cepeda is the author of Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina (Atria, Simon & Schuster). Bird of Paradise is equal parts memoir about Cepeda’s coming of age in New York City and Santo Domingo, and detective story chronicling her year-long journey to discover the truth about her ancestry. The book also looks at what it means to be a hyphenated American-Latina today. Raquel travels widely to speak to diverse audiences about Latina identity, social justice, gentrification and inequality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1719601134809-40DEMKGE6P4X3A9AAPMZ/helon-habila.jpg Migration, Immigration, and Refuge - Helon Habila An acclaimed Nigerian novelist, poet, and a professor of Creative Writing at George Mason University, Helon Habila speaks nationally and internationally on the subjects of immigration, art and activism. His third novel, Oil on Water, won many prizes including the Pen/Open Book Award; Commonwealth Best Book, Africa Region; and The Orion Book Award. To illuminate the long history of colonialism—and unmask cultural and religious dynamics—that gave rise to the conflicts that have ravaged the region to this day, Habila also wrote The Chibok Girls, a nonfiction account of the girls abducted by Boko Haram. His latest novel, Travelers, examines the lives of African immigrants in Europe and inscribes unforgettable signposts―both unsettling and luminous―marking the universal journey in pursuit of love and home. Habila divides his time between his native Nigeria and the USA, where he lives with his wife and three children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763047110644-F07H9B5EDCLCYHRYVK86/Davarian-L.-Baldwin.-Photo-by-VisionMerge-Productions.jpg Migration, Immigration, and Refuge - Davarian Baldwin Davarian L. Baldwin is an internationally recognized scholar, historian, and public advocate. He is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Founding Director of the Smart Cities Research Lab at Trinity College. A foremost expert on Black social movements and African American history, he is often called upon to consult on everything from the politics of reparations to the global impact of the Harlem Renaissance. His academic and political commitments have focused on global cities and particularly the diverse and marginalized communities that struggle to maintain sustainable lives in urban locales. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1763044565418-M027X10BFVSDJG2IHJ7O/HafizahGeter110921_048BeowulfSheehan_ecopy%252B%25281%2529.jpg Migration, Immigration, and Refuge - Hafizah Augustus Geter “With The Black Period, Hafizah Augustus Geter announces herself as a storyteller, truth seeker, and path finder. With equal parts heart and rigor, this is a work that interrogates as it both mourns and celebrates. Geter's life spans the continents of the earth, but also crosses the lands and oceans of human experience.” -Tayari Jones, Author of An American Marriage Hafizah Augustus Geter is a Nigerian/U.S. writer born in Zaria, Nigeria, and raised in Ohio and South Carolina. She is a 2026 Hawthornden fellow in fiction, a 2024 Civitella Ranieri nonfiction fellow, a Bread Loaf 2021 Katherine Bakeless nonfiction fellow, and a Cave Canem poetry fellow. Her memoir, The Black Period: On Personhood, Race & Origin (Random House), won the 2023 PEN Open Book Award, and a 2023 Lammy Award in LGBTQ+ Nonfiction from Lambda Literary, and was a New Yorker Magazine Best Book, a Good Morning America Anticipated Book, an Amazon's Best of the Month Editor's Pick, and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize. She is the author of the poetry collection Un-American (Wesleyan), nominated for a NAACP Image Award, finalist for the PEN Open Book Award, and longlisted for a Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1743193577954-1W1IQJLZPRMW7FDF8KHR/Priya%2BHuq1.jpg Migration, Immigration, and Refuge - Priya Huq Priya Huq is a Bangladeshi Texan cartoonist living in New York who speaks widely on issues related to the comics industry, art, race, culture, identity and their intersections. In her talks, Priya focuses on practical advice for marginalized artists and cartoonists. 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In this deeply researched social history, Amrita Chakrabarti Myers analyzes the ways in which black women in Charleston acquired, defined, and defended their own vision of freedom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1692051182874-XGK3EM859INJJH00NOYM/Screen+Shot+2023-08-14+at+12.12.54+PM.png AMRITA MYERS - The Vice President's Black Wife The Untold Life of Julia Chinn By Amrita Chakrabarti Myers Award-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796–1833), the enslaved wife of Richard Mentor Johnson, owner of Blue Spring Farm, veteran of the War of 1812, and US vice president under Martin Van Buren. Johnson never freed Chinn, but during his frequent absences from his estate, he delegated to her the management of his property, including Choctaw Academy, a boarding school for Indigenous men and boys on the grounds of the estate. This meant that Chinn, although enslaved herself, oversaw Blue Spring's slave labor force and had substantial control over economic, social, financial, and personal affairs within the couple's world. Chinn's relationship with Johnson was unlikely to have been consensual since she was never manumitted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1738262486522-UF28Y8GNYPH4GKPBV2T6/20250127_UNE_0035.JPG AMRITA MYERS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1738262483652-2G9XA6GTOB8XTF1DXR88/20250127_UNE_0065.JPG AMRITA MYERS https://www.pandelectures.com/pandelecturemanagement-ladeehubbard daily 0.75 2024-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1625074823805-SQOJ1TLSHHWL5X8P7LTO/ZSMITH-2020-10-13-09749+HiRespp.jpg LADEE HUBBARD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1674597514966-YF4GXZLGQ9GW44APIRPG/LastSuspiciousHoldout_6-25-1.jpeg LADEE HUBBARD - The Last Suspicious Holdout By Ladee Hubbard The critically acclaimed author of The Rib King returns with an eagerly anticipated collection of interlocking short stories including the title story written exclusively for this volume, that explore relationships between friends, family and strangers in a Black neighborhood over fifteen years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1614353593922-JEEUOPSMCWSG74GXR244/rib+king.jpg LADEE HUBBARD - The Rib King By Ladee Hubbard Elegantly written and exhaustively researched, The Rib King is an unsparing examination of America’s fascination with black iconography and exploitation that redefines African American stereotypes in literature. In this powerful, disturbing, and timely novel, Ladee Hubbard reveals who people actually are, and most importantly, who and what they are not. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1547576656223-YQW0VJFMEHTZ5IJ1HJ53/Talented+Ribkins+cover.png LADEE HUBBARD - The Talented Ribkins By Ladee Hubbard Inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois’s famous essay “The Talented Tenth” and fueled by Ladee Hubbard’s marvelously original imagination, The Talented Ribkins is a big-hearted debut novel about race, class, politics, and the unique gifts that, while they may cause some problems from time to time, bind a family together. https://www.pandelectures.com/matthew-salesses daily 0.75 2025-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/3441425b-9ffc-4501-8859-122f8dd3a802/tsow+author+photo+ms+2.jpeg MATTHEW SALESSES https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1711460315112-RKHWGBAZCXVXHOAW5ZGY/The+Sense+of+Wonder+by+author+and+speaker+Matthew+Salesses.jpg MATTHEW SALESSES - The Sense of Wonder: A Novel by Matthew Salesses book cover image "A smart, very meta take" (Kirkus Reviews) on the ways Asian Americans navigate the thorny worlds of sports and entertainment when everything is stacked against them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1711460475141-B7LP3IPGMKPU3VQGT8BU/Craft+in+the+Real+World+by+author+and+speaker+Matthew+Salesses.jpg MATTHEW SALESSES - Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses cover image This national bestseller is "a significant contribution to discussions of the art of fiction and a necessary challenge to received views about whose stories are told, how they are told and for whom they are intended" (Laila Lalami, The New York Times Book Review). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1711460627087-BN9R8AHXXNVW8RZMSWS7/Disappear+Doppelg%C3%A4nger+Disappear+by+author+and+speaker+Matthew+Salesses.jpg MATTHEW SALESSES - Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear by Matthew Salesses cover image Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. From the bestselling author of The Hundred-Year Flood comes an incredibly entertaining and profoundly affecting tour de force about a Korean American man’s strange and ordinary attempts to exist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1711460771587-0ZDTP83UPB65W0I7W47X/The+Hundred+Year+Flood+by+author+and+speaker+Matthew+Salesses.jpg MATTHEW SALESSES - The Hundred Year Flood by Matthew Salesses book cover image In the shadow of a looming flood that comes every one hundred years, Tee tries to convince himself that living in a new place will mean a new identity and a chance to shed the parallels between him and his adopted father. This beautiful and dreamlike story follows Tee, a twenty-two-year-old Korean-American, as he escapes to Prague in the wake of his uncle’s suicide and the aftermath of 9/11. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1711460874203-3MVT2RCL5M5V7CDMQZVF/I%27m+Not+Saying+I%27m+Just+Saying+by+author+and+speaker+Matthew+Salesses.jpg MATTHEW SALESSES - I'm Not Saying, I'm Just Saying by Matthew Salesses book cover image I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying, a novel in flash fiction, is a raw, honest look at parenting, commitment, morality, and the spaces that grow between and within us when we don’t know what to say. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1711657530065-J1MSMGSA9VR8VQH3FS7R/Different+Racisms+by+author+and+speaker+Matthew+Salesses.png MATTHEW SALESSES - Different Racisms: On Stereotypes, the Individual, and Asian American Masculinity In Different Racisms, Matthew Salesses explores the unique racism Asian Americans face, including the model minority myth, the impact of Jeremy Lin's fame on Asian American representation in national media, and America's perception of "Gangnam Style" singer and K-Pop sensation Psy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1711461197184-A9U1NXOGQFNT2UQEPPON/The+Last+Repatriate+by+author+and+speaker+Matthew+Salesses.jpg MATTHEW SALESSES - The Last Repatriate by Matthew Salesses book cover image In 1953, after the end of the Korean War, 23 POWs refused to repatriate to America. The Last Repatriate tells the story of Theodore Dickerson, a prisoner who eventually returns to his home in Virginia in the midst of the McCarthy Era. https://www.pandelectures.com/raquel-cepeda daily 0.75 2025-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1581006121256-HPJ8IWTQETD3Y90TE3OX/Raquel_Cepeda_1.jpg RAQUEL CEPEDA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1747855695048-WQNC0HW3ACB7CESCIQF1/61LhZPE%2BLCL.jpg RAQUEL CEPEDA - Bird of Paradise How I Became Latina By Raquel Cepeda https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1747855722916-LYQKB7M84UR338NTYKZC/61tXzlRk-ZL._AC_UF1000%2C1000_QL80_.jpg RAQUEL CEPEDA - And It Don't Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years https://www.pandelectures.com/danyel-smith daily 0.75 2026-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/a1f00f3b-6aab-4744-a4c0-11f69ebec240/Danyel+Smith+Headshot+by+jenjphoto.jpg DANYEL SMITH https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1724956959474-CMCNK8GLKBONS4NAF6CV/Shine+Bright+by+Danyel+Smith.jpeg DANYEL SMITH - Shine Bright A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop by Danyel Smith A weave of biography, criticism, and memoir, Shine Bright is Danyel Smith’s intimate history of Black women’s music as the foundational story of American pop. Smith has been writing this history for more than five years. But as a music fan, and then as an essayist, editor ( Vibe, Billboard ), and podcast host ( Black Girl Songbook ), she has been living this history since she was a latchkey kid listening to “Midnight Train to Georgia” on the family stereo. Smith’s detailed narrative begins with Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved woman who sang her poems, and continues through the stories of Mahalia Jackson, Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, and Mariah Carey, as well as the under-considered careers of Marilyn McCoo, Deniece Williams, and Jody Watley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1724957214736-O83VBN6VDBQ567P1SGU6/Bliss+A+Novel+by+Danyel+Smith.jpeg DANYEL SMITH - Bliss A Novel by Danyel Smith Danyel Smith is one of the most acclaimed music journalists of her generation, a prose stylist who “writes with music in her language” (Quincy Jones). In Bliss , a thrillingly sensual tale drenched with love and music, Smith dives deep into an intriguing set of characters facing life-changing choices in the swirl of the music industry at its decadent peak. At a glossy gathering on Paradise Island, record exec Eva Glenn—soulful, sexy, powerful, and possibly pregnant—is hosting a comeback showcase for her singing sensation Sunny Addison, a barefoot diva with a poet’s heart and the voice of a lion. At the event’s high-strung peak, however, Eva begins to sink beneath the waves of anxiety washing over her—anxiety about a confusing sexual triangle, a career at a crossroads, and choices to be made about her possible pregnancy—and decides, in a blink, to flee. She leaves Paradise for the petite, pastoral island of Cat, accompanied by her sometime-lover D’Artagnan Addison, an earnestly crazy mystic looking for answers of his own. What begins as an idyllic break quickly turns into an intense sojourn that brings Eva to terms with the crises closing in on her. Smith casts a wittily skeptical eye on the absurd drama of the music industry, but infuses every page with an infectious, bracing, unashamed passion for the power of pop. Her language matches the spirit of the music she writes about, echoing everything from throaty blues shouts and hip hop menace to the transcendent joy of a perfect R & B love song. This is a novel about the real rhythm and blues of life, about pain and loss and why we hold tight, in the end, to the sex and music and love that offer us a fleeting glimpse of bliss, even when the price is steep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1724957425332-30Y5O99I2O15A7G7HOK7/More+Like+Wrestling+A+Novel+by+Danyel+Smith.jpeg DANYEL SMITH - More Like Wrestling An Novel by Danyel Smith More Like Wrestling is the magnificent debut novel by one of the most acclaimed music journalists of her generation. It tells the story of Pinch and Paige, two sisters coming of age in Oakland, California, in the 1980s, a time when that beautiful, crumbling city is being transformed by tectonic shifts, both literal and figurative. The novel unfolds through the alternating narration of the two sisters: Pinch, quiet and observant, and Paige, louder and wilder but faltering under her facade. The sisters are teenage refugees from a violent home, living alone in a faded Victorian mansion where they survive by creating a closed world centered around each other and their new friends—a rowdy makeshift family of castoffs, dealers, and drama queens on the periphery of the burgeoning drug game, some looking for a way out, some looking for a way deeper in. As the sisters grow from girls into women, they are confronted with a series of surprising reversals—death, imprisonment, and, just maybe, love—that force them to come to grips with the truth about their choices, their friends, and their tangled roots. https://www.pandelectures.com/wendy-pearlman daily 0.75 2025-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/c55de4d4-bbc7-4970-82a4-d23ed48f0488/Wendy+Pearlman+Headshot.JPG WENDY PEARLMAN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1719874577689-BCW43EVG7NMJE00Z5WPK/The+Home+I+Worked+to+Make+by+Wendy+Pearlman+book+cover.jpg WENDY PEARLMAN - The Home I Worked to Make by Wendy Pearlman book cover War forced millions of Syrians from their homes. It also forced them to rethink the meaning of home itself. In 2011, Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom. Brutal government repression transformed peaceful protests into one of the most devastating conflicts of our times, killing hundreds of thousands and displacing millions. The Home I Worked to Make takes Syria’s refugee outflow as its point of departure. Based on hundreds of interviews conducted across more than a decade, it probes a question as intimate as it is universal: What is home? With gripping immediacy, Syrians now on five continents share stories of leaving, losing, searching, and finding (or not finding) home. Across this tapestry of voices, a new understanding emerges: home, for those without the privilege of taking it for granted, is both struggle and achievement. Recasting “refugee crises” as acts of diaspora-making, The Home I Worked to Makechallenges readers to grapple with the hard-won wisdom of those who survive war and to see, with fresh eyes, what home means in their own lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1711551254263-Q35YCB5D82XBXRRHX66Y/We+Crossed+a+Bridge+and+It+Trembled+by+author+and+speaker+Wendy+Pearlman.jpg WENDY PEARLMAN - We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria LONG-LISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL An astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight. Against the backdrop of the wave of demonstrations known as the Arab Spring, in 2011 hundreds of thousands of Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom, democracy and human rights. The government’s ferocious response, and the refusal of the demonstrators to back down, sparked a brutal civil war that over the past five years has escalated into the worst humanitarian catastrophe of our times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1720449463238-07US6KSCD6OPHVRHXPJ0/9781984851987.jpeg WENDY PEARLMAN - Muzoon A SYRIAN REFUGEE SPEAKS OUT By Muzoon Almellehan and Wendy Pearlman This eye-opening memoir tells the story of a young girl’s life in Syria, her family’s wrenching decision to leave their home, and the upheaval of life in a refugee camp. Though her life had utterly changed, one thing remained the same. She knew that education was the key to a better future—for herself, and so that she could help her country. She went from tent to tent in the camp, trying to convince other kids, especially girls, to come to school. And her passion and dedication soon had people calling her the “Malala of Syria.” Muzoon has grown into an internationally recognized advocate for refugees, for education, and for the rights of girls and women, and is now a UNICEF goodwill ambassador—the first refugee to play that role. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1711551059863-LRT9X4MLI4EATNIPONZ2/Violence+Nonviolence+and+the+Palestinian+National+Movement+by+author+and+speaker+Wendy+Pearlman.jpg WENDY PEARLMAN - Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement by Wendy Pearlman book cover image Why do some national movements use violent protest and others nonviolent protest? Wendy Pearlman shows that much of the answer lies inside movements themselves. Nonviolent protest requires coordination and restraint, which only a cohesive movement can provide. When, by contrast, a movement is fragmented, factional competition generates new incentives for violence and authority structures are too weak to constrain escalation. Pearlman reveals these patterns across one hundred years in the Palestinian national movement, with comparisons to South Africa and Northern Ireland. To those who ask why there is no Palestinian Gandhi, Pearlman demonstrates that nonviolence is not simply a matter of leadership. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1711550885435-LKILO13APDONYHY60XY0/Occupied+Voices+by+author+and+speaker+Wendy+Pearlman.jpg WENDY PEARLMAN - Occupied Voices: Stories of Everyday Life from the Second Intifada by Wendy Pearlman book cover image As the Middle East peace process disintegrates and the second Palestinian Intifada begins, Wendy Pearlman, a young Jewish woman from the American Midwest travels to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in a quest to talk to ordinary Palestinians. A remarkable narrative emerges from her conversations with doctors, artists, school kids, and families who have lost loved ones or watched their homes destroyed. Their stories, ranging from the humorous to the tragic, paint a profile of the Palestinians that is as honest as it is uncommon in the Western media: that of ordinary people who simply want to live ordinary lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1711550698574-7JSFANM9DNE8M3PFC9VB/Triadic+Coercion+by+author+and+speaker+Wendy+Pearlman.jpg WENDY PEARLMAN - Triadic Coercion: Israel's Targeting of States that Host Nonstate Actors by Wendy Pearlman and Boaz Atzili book cover image In the post–Cold War era, states increasingly find themselves in conflicts with nonstate actors. Finding it difficult to fight these opponents directly, many governments instead target states that harbor or aid nonstate actors, using threats and punishment to coerce host states into stopping those groups. Wendy Pearlman and Boaz Atzili investigate this strategy, which they term triadic coercion. They explain why states pursue triadic coercion, evaluate the conditions under which it succeeds, and demonstrate their arguments across seventy years of Israeli history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/0f805a14-530f-496d-a698-2ff2e14bbba9/Wendy+Pearlman+on+C-SPAN.png WENDY PEARLMAN - Make it stand out Northwestern University professor Wendy Pearlman retold the stories of Syrians whose lives have been impacted by the war in Syria for C-SPAN BookTV. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1760647883318-J442T8UO3J4U3MPLVJPT/1759244846435.jpeg WENDY PEARLMAN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1760647927647-27YMS4CH1G5XJWKX9OYU/1759244845169.jpeg WENDY PEARLMAN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1760647923060-GCF3VMZP4PS4AQKG1ZL8/Wendy+at+Hobart+and+William+Smith+Colleges.jpg WENDY PEARLMAN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1760647938546-UJ2DYP08BGCLB64DW56Y/Wendy+at+Hobart+and+William+Smith+Colleges2.jpg WENDY PEARLMAN https://www.pandelectures.com/johnjennings daily 0.75 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1548279314030-YDNUD2103Z5NVZGAF4UM/JJHEADSHOThz.jpg JOHN JENNINGS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1748907507860-H20U1UFX5JN1VZH9PMY2/Parable+of+the+talents.jpg JOHN JENNINGS - Parable of the Talents This gripping graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s groundbreaking dystopian novel stands beside the acclaimed previous graphic novel adaptations, Kindred, a #1 New York Times bestseller, and Parable of the Sower, winner of the Hugo Award https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1674596994429-NLQG6Y67H9GPCOE8DMBM/John_Jennings_Octavia_Butler_Parable_Of_The_Sower_Damian_Duffy.jpeg JOHN JENNINGS - Parable of the Sower: WRITTEN BY OCTAVIA BUTLER; ADAPTED BY DAMIAN DUFFY; ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN JENNINGS In this graphic-novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower by Damian Duffy and John Jennings, the award-winning team behind Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, the author portrays a searing vision of America’s future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1748907627060-V00GL109I2MCSRCGWOG1/Silver+Surfer.jpeg JOHN JENNINGS - Silver Surfer: Ghost Light By John Jennings About Silver Surfer: Ghost Light A ghost from the past, returned to haunt Norrin Radd! Toni Brooks and her family have moved into the quiet town of Sweetwater. But nothing is quite what it seems with their new home. What mystery did Toni and her family unravel that would summon the Sentinel of the Spaceways, the Silver Surfer?! The Surfer thought he buried his friend, the human named Al Harper, years ago – but he thought wrong! Can the Surfer save Al from succumbing to his newfound cosmic abilities? And who – or what – transformed Al into the otherworldly Ghost Light? Eisner Award winner John Jennings and acclaimed artist Valentine De Landro introduce a new Marvel super hero, 54 years in the making! But can even two cosmic powerhouses save the town of Sweetwater?! Collecting SILVER SURFER: GHOST LIGHT #1-5. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1712089230893-Y3X2UOZVEBVS54A43QA9/my-super-hero-is-black-9781982134662_xlg.jpg JOHN JENNINGS - My Super Hero Is Black By John Jennings and Angelique Roche #1 New York Times bestselling author John Jennings and acclaimed producer Angélique Roché illuminate some of the most important Black creators and characters through Marvel Comics history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1749066511164-4TAK5FCZ9EJAKC1SWLZY/Box+of+Bones+Book+Two.jpg JOHN JENNINGS - Box of Bones: Book Two By Ayize Jama-Everett & John Jennings When Black graduate student Lyndsey begins her dissertation work on a mysterious box that pops up during the most violent and troubled time in Africana history, she has no idea that her research will lead her on a phantasmagorical journey from West Philadelphia riots to Haitian slave uprisings. Wherever Lyndsey finds someone who has seen the Box, chaos ensues. Soon, even her own sanity falls into question. In the end, Lyndsey will have to decide if she really wants to see what's inside the Box of Bones. Described as "Tales from the Crypt Meets Black History," Box of Bones is a supernatural nightmare tour through some of the most violent and horrific episodes in the African Diaspora. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1749066654808-F6WHM3TUQP2BP10UP5PS/Blue+Hand+Mojo.jpg JOHN JENNINGS - Blue Hand Mojo: Hard Times Road By John Jennings The mage, Frank "Half Dead" Johnson, is a marked man. Literally. A drunken decision fueled by tragedy has left him with half a soul, sorcerous powers, and two centuries to work off his debt to Scratch (aka The Devil) himself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1547752982689-YZOY519WFKWQHD0H4IJP/Jennings+1.jpg JOHN JENNINGS - Kindred The graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece Kindred is a #1 New York Times bestseller and the winner of the Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1547752982736-5P5G7BCUI4SRFIUKATNI/Jennings+2.jpg JOHN JENNINGS - I Am Alfonso Jones By Tony Medina, John Jennings, Stacey Robinson The Hate U Give meets The Lovely Bones in this unflinching graphic novel about the afterlife of a young man killed by an off-duty police officer, co-illustrated by New York Times bestselling artist John Jennings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1547752983229-ZSGFZMRIPZKXUHNN5JXF/Jennings+3.jpg JOHN JENNINGS https://www.pandelectures.com/helon-habila daily 0.75 2024-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1548278087532-X09ZFFEJJHRMUAP1MLJG/helon-habila.jpg HELON HABILA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544466349921-SXN3RRR7XMTDU115JLTF/Travelers.jpg HELON HABILA - Travelers by Helon Habila Both unsettling and luminous, Travelers is a lean, heartrending exploration of loss and connection. Award-winning author Helon Habila inscribes unforgettable signposts that mark the universal journey in pursuit of love and home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544466349508-R954786STS82OGFPAZJR/Oil+on+Water.jpg HELON HABILA - Oil on Water by Helon Habila In the oil-rich and environmentally devastated Nigerian Delta, the wife of a British oil executive has been kidnapped. Two journalists—a young upstart, Rufus, and a once-great, now disillusioned veteran, Zaq—are sent to find her. In a story rich with atmosphere and taut with suspense, Oil on Water explores the conflict between idealism and cynical disillusionment in a journey full of danger and unintended consequences. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544466350129-PMLQXKLO0SGO4ACY6EYE/Waiting+for+an+Angel.jpg HELON HABILA - Waiting for An Angel by Helon Habila Lomba is a young journalist living under military rule in Lagos, Nigeria, the most dangerous city in the world. His mind is full of soul music and girls and the lyric novel he is writing. But his roommate is brutally attacked by soldiers; his first love is forced to marry a wealthy old man; and his neighbors on Poverty Street are planning a demonstration that is bound to incite riot and arrests. Lomba can no longer bury his head in the sand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544466349499-MBE3FSMBGQ8T4R1XX9ZS/Measuring+Time.jpg HELON HABILA - Measuring Time by Helon Habila A novel of ardent loyalty, encroaching modernity, political desire, and personal liberation, Measuring Time is a heart-wrenching history of Nigeria, portrayed through the eyes of a single family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544466349762-G6EED79QTEE9QNJRHAS2/The+Chibok+Girls.jpg HELON HABILA - The Chibok Girls The Boko Haram Kidnappings and Islamist Militancy in Nigeria On the night of April 14, 2014, 276 girls from the Chibok Secondary School in northern Nigeria were kidnapped by the deadly terrorist group Boko Haram. Fifty-seven of them escaped over the next few months, but most were never heard from again. https://www.pandelectures.com/leadership-personal-growth daily 0.75 2025-12-01 https://www.pandelectures.com/work-power-labor-speakers daily 0.75 2025-12-01 https://www.pandelectures.com/community-reads daily 0.75 2025-11-06 https://www.pandelectures.com/doug-boin daily 0.75 2025-12-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1565630162266-G600C9XFE1DBFS7X30YB/unnamed.jpg DOUG BOIN Photo taken by Nicole Griffing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1745266232839-TBIFQI39K8MJHSCZVS6F/Clodia+of+Rome+Book+Cover.jpg DOUG BOIN - Clodia of Rome by Douglas Boin A thrilling new history of the late Roman Republic, told through one woman’s quest for justice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1576275174062-VV16K9V2B2L0F8XQ7J5N/48128389.jpg DOUG BOIN - Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome by Douglas Boin Denied citizenship by the Roman Empire, a soldier named Alaric changed history by unleashing a surprise attack on the capital city of an unjust empire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544395008373-COUJI4DEETFQ7VURG82J/COMING+OUT.jpg DOUG BOIN - Coming Out Christian in a Roman World by Douglas Boin The supposed collapse of Roman civilization is still lamented more than 1,500 years later—and intertwined with this idea is the notion that a fledgling religion, Christianity, went from a persecuted fringe movement to an irresistible force that toppled the empire. https://www.pandelectures.com/bridgett-davis daily 0.75 2025-05-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/ffc07e90-48f8-4a2d-a50b-a15bfaf53a22/Author+and+Speaker+Bridgett+M.+Davis+Headshot+by+Nina+Subin+Photography.jpg BRIDGETT M. DAVIS photo credit: Nina Subin Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1738262464373-2W0AW77TX278ZU9PIKNL/Book+Cover+Love+Rita.jpg BRIDGETT M. DAVIS - Love, Rita An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy Cover A searing tribute of sisterhood and family, profound love and loss from the acclaimed author of The World According to Fannie Davis. In Love, Rita, Bridgett M. Davis tells the story of her beloved older sister, a vivacious woman who in leaving home to attend Fisk University and then becoming a car test driver, an amateur belly dancer, an MBA, and later a popular special ed teacher, modeled for her younger sister Bridgett how to live boldly before her own life was tragically cut short by lupus. A brave and beautiful homage that both celebrates the special, complex bond of sisterhood yet also reveals what it is to live, and die, as a Black woman in America. This moving memoir, full of joy and heartbreak, family history and American history, uses Rita’s life as a lens to examine the persistent effects of racism in the lives of Black women—and the men they love; it is essential reading for fans of Jesmyn Ward, Kiese Laymon, James McBride, Linda Villarosa, and Tressie McMillan Cottom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1626747968659-1JBM14J62KAFSSQXGW48/51Pccsw299L._SX331_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg BRIDGETT M. DAVIS - The World According to Fannie Davis My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers This true story of an unforgettable mother, her devoted daughter, and their life in the Detroit numbers of the 1960s and 1970s highlights “the outstanding humanity of black America” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544465168159-JGBNDQAR82LWJJ9VYOIE/into+the+glow.jpg BRIDGETT M. DAVIS - Into the Go-Slow A novel about sisters, the legacy of the Black Power Movement, and the troubled bond between African Americans and Africans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544465168540-GJGPJ07NBAXVEGR0QQP9/shifting+through+neutral.jpg BRIDGETT M. DAVIS - Shifting Through Neutral Not yet a woman yet more than a little girl, Rae Dodson is caught up in her family's drama. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/cceb3a09-ebb0-4d93-8f2a-a4df61bd062f/making+black+america.jpg BRIDGETT M. DAVIS - Make it stand out Making Black America: Through the Grapevine from Henry Louis Gates Jr. | Episode 3 featuring Bridgett M. Davis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/592c0ab2-944f-4141-9a23-5e1885e970ff/Screenshot+2025-05-27+at+9.26.59%E2%80%AFAM.png BRIDGETT M. DAVIS - Make it stand out The Secret Life of a Woman Who Ran an Underground Lottery in Detroit https://www.pandelectures.com/kristen-arnett daily 0.75 2026-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/82e42251-2980-483e-be96-de9e8f97d896/ARNETT+headshot+2024+1+cropped.jpg KRISTEN ARNETT Photo credit: Maria Rada https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1727891939504-F2MA2NI39TENWTPKRRGM/Stop+Me+If+You%27ve+Heard+This+One+book+cover.jpeg KRISTEN ARNETT - Stop Me If You've Heard This One From the New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things, a sparkling and funny new novel of entertainment, ambition, art, and love. Cherry Hendricks might be down on her luck, but she can write the book on what makes something funny: she’s a professional clown who creates raucous, zany fun at gigs all over Orlando. Between her clowning and her shifts at an aquarium store for extra cash, she’s always hustling. Not to mention balancing her judgmental mother, her messy love life, and her equally messy community of fellow performers. Things start looking up when Cherry meets Margot the Magnificent—a much older lesbian magician—who seems to have worked out the lines between art, business, and life, and has a slick, successful career to prove it. With Margot’s mentorship and industry connections, Cherry is sure to take her art to the next level. Plus, Margot is sexy as hell. It’s not long before Cherry must decide how much she’s willing to risk for Margot and for her own explosive new act—and what kind of clown she wants to be under her suit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/3504c4f2-8f5c-49e1-9160-0ae8868d629d/Book+Club+Kit_Stop+Me+If+You%27ve+Heard+This+ONe.jpg KRISTEN ARNETT - Stop me If you've heard this one book club kit discussion guide, author Q&A, unique book club hosting ideas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1614352203955-HC4RBN83F1LA7M4GRU6W/With%2BTeeth.jpg KRISTEN ARNETT - WITH TEETH by Kristen Arnett From the author of the New York Times-bestselling sensation Mostly Dead Things a surprising and moving story of two mothers, one difficult son, and the limitations of marriage, parenthood, and love. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1564599616684-XUDVBDR5T5BBKNQOU4BO/unnamed.jpg KRISTEN ARNETT - MOSTLY DEAD THINGS by Kristen Arnett A Best Book of the Year pick at the New York Times, NPR, The New Yorker, TIME, Washington Post, Oprahmag.com, Thrillist, Shelf Awareness, Good Housekeeping and more. What does it take to come back to life? For Jessa-Lynn Morton, the question is not an abstract one. In the wake of her father’s suicide, Jessa has stepped up to manage his failing taxidermy business while the rest of the Morton family crumbles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1544394802376-QS9LKRNAEZGLRJ42YONL/felt+in+the+jaw.jpg KRISTEN ARNETT - FELT IN THE JAW by Kristen Arnett In her debut story collection, Kristen Arnett, with dark humor, explores the lives of queer women and their families in the light of the bleak Florida sun. https://www.pandelectures.com/gender-sexuality daily 0.75 2025-12-11 https://www.pandelectures.com/black-history-culture daily 0.75 2025-11-06 https://www.pandelectures.com/human-centered-history daily 0.75 2025-11-05 https://www.pandelectures.com/education-lifelong-learning daily 0.75 2025-12-01 https://www.pandelectures.com/antibias-education daily 0.75 2025-11-06 https://www.pandelectures.com/womens-stories/womens-empowerment daily 0.75 2025-12-09 https://www.pandelectures.com/creative-process daily 0.75 2025-11-05 https://www.pandelectures.com/poets-artists daily 0.75 2025-11-06 https://www.pandelectures.com/priya-huq daily 0.75 2026-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1548278761492-MYNFCQVXKGURDVW0TD37/Priya%2BHuq1%2B%25281%2529.jpg PRIYA HUQ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1626745759756-SRG9IU2725WL17GQZZFP/piece+by+piece.jpg PRIYA HUQ - Piece by Piece: The Story of Nisrin's Hijab: A Graphic Novel In Priya Huq’s middle-grade graphic novel, Piece by Piece, Nisrin will have to rely on faith, friends, and family to help her recover after she is the target of a hate crime. https://www.pandelectures.com/akemi-johnson daily 0.75 2024-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1559155208763-7CE01Q8MSV3KB7GV14TW/Akemi+Johnson+%281%29.jpg AKEMI JOHNSON https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1559155989644-UOHP4N22VEXNIN1SETLU/night_in_the_american_village_final.jpg AKEMI JOHNSON - Night in the American Village Women in the Shadow of the U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa by Akemi Johnson A beautifully written examination of the complex relationship between the women living near the U.S. bases in Okinawa and the servicemen who are stationed there https://www.pandelectures.com/siva-vaidhyanathan daily 0.75 2025-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/458e554d-1e5f-4a51-ae13-76308ec8a1c9/Siva+Vaidhyanathan+head+shot-2.jpg Siva Vaidhyanathan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1724791440705-O7R4EKV1KQ8722N90Q1N/Antisocial+Media+by+Siva+Vaidhyanathan+book+cover.jpg Siva Vaidhyanathan - Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy by Siva Vaidhyanatha If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energize hatred and bigotry, erode social trust, undermine respectable journalism, foster doubts about science, and engage in massive surveillance all at once, you would make something a lot like Facebook. Of course, none of that was part of the plan. In this fully updated paperback edition of Antisocial Media, Siva Vaidhyanathan explains how Facebook devolved from an innocent social site hacked together by Harvard students into a force that, while it may make personal life just a little more pleasurable, makes democracy a lot more challenging. It's an account of the hubris of good intentions, a missionary spirit, and an ideology that sees computer code as the universal solvent for all human problems. And it's an indictment of how "social media" has fostered the deterioration of democratic culture around the world, from facilitating Russian meddling in support of Trump's election to the exploitation of the platform by murderous authoritarians in Burma and the Philippines. Both authoritative and trenchant, Antisocial Media shows how Facebook's mission went so wrong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1724791533991-2CPBYTMNDQS2AXR2MLYO/The+Googlization+of+Everything+by+Siva+Vaidhyanathan+book+cover.jpg Siva Vaidhyanathan - The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry) by Siva Vaidhyanathan In the beginning, the World Wide Web was exciting and open to the point of anarchy, a vast and intimidating repository of unindexed confusion. Into this creative chaos came Google with its dazzling mission—“To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible”—and its much-quoted motto, “Don’t be evil.” In this provocative book, Siva Vaidhyanathan examines the ways we have used and embraced Google—and the growing resistance to its expansion across the globe. He exposes the dark side of our Google fantasies, raising red flags about issues of intellectual property and the much-touted Google Book Search. He assesses Google’s global impact, particularly in China, and explains the insidious effect of Googlization on the way we think. Finally, Vaidhyanathan proposes the construction of an Internet ecosystem designed to benefit the whole world and keep one brilliant and powerful company from falling into the “evil” it pledged to avoid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1724791655578-EKBB99E9EG1QGRFHR6YM/Intellectual+Property+by+Siva+Vaidhyanathan+book+cover.jpg Siva Vaidhyanathan - Intellectual Property: A Very Short Introduction by Siva Vaidhyanathan We all create intellectual property. We all use intellectual property. Intellectual property is the most pervasive yet least understood way we regulate expression. Despite its importance to so many aspects of the global economy and daily life, intellectual property policy remains a confusing and arcane subject. This engaging book clarifies both the basic terms and the major conflicts surrounding these fascinating areas of law, offering a layman's introduction to copyright, patents, trademarks, and other forms of knowledge falling under the purview of intellectual property rights. Using vivid examples, noted media expert Siva Vaidhyanathan illustrates the powers and limits of intellectual property, distilling with grace and wit the complex tangle of laws, policies, and values governing the dissemination of ideas, expressions, inventions, creativity, and data collection in the modern world. Vaidhyanathan explains that intellectual property exists as it does because powerful interests want it to exist. The strongest economies in the world have a keen interest in embedding rigid methods of control and enforcement over emerging economies to preserve the huge economic interests linked to their copyright industries-film, music, software, and publishing. For this reason, the fight over the global standardization of intellectual property has become one of the most important sites of tension in North-South global relations. Through compelling case studies, including those of Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Sony, Amazon, and Google Books, Vaidhyanathan shows that the modern intellectual property systems reflect three centuries of changes in politics, economics, technologies, and social values. Although it emerged from a desire to foster creativity while simultaneously protecting it, intellectual property today has fundamentally shifted to a political dimension. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1724791872612-GML9D67O1QR4K65VXALC/Copyrights+and+Copywrongs+by+Siva+Vaidhyanathan+book+cover.jpg Siva Vaidhyanathan - Copyrights and Copywrongs The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity by Siva Vaidhyanathan An in-depth look at American copyright law and the flaws of its current legal framework Copyright reflects far more than economic interests. Embedded within conflicts over royalties and infringement are cultural values—about race, class, access, ownership, free speech, and democracy—which influence how rights are determined and enforced. Questions of legitimacy—of what constitutes “intellectual property” or “fair use,” and of how to locate a precise moment of cultural creation—have become enormously complicated in recent years, as advances in technology have exponentially increased the speed of cultural reproduction and dissemination. In Copyrights and Copywrongs , Siva Vaidhyanathan tracks the history of American copyright law through the 20th century, from Mark Twain’s vehement exhortations for “thick” copyright protection, to recent lawsuits regarding sampling in rap music and the “digital moment,” exemplified by the rise of Napster and MP3 technology. He argues persuasively that in its current punitive, highly restrictive form, American copyright law hinders cultural production, thereby contributing to the poverty of civic culture. In addition to choking cultural expression, recent copyright law, Vaidhyanathan argues, effectively sanctions biases against cultural traditions which differ from the Anglo-European model. In African-based cultures, borrowing from and building upon earlier cultural expressions is not considered a legal trespass, but a tribute. Rap and hip hop artists who practice such “borrowing” by sampling and mixing, however, have been sued for copyright violation and forced to pay substantial monetary damages. Similarly, the oral transmission of culture, which has a centuries-old tradition within African American culture, is complicated by current copyright laws. How, for example, can ownership of music, lyrics, or stories which have been passed down through generations be determined? Upon close examination, strict legal guidelines prove insensitive to the diverse forms of cultural expression prevalent in the United States, and reveal much about the racialized cultural values which permeate our system of laws. Ultimately, copyright is a necessary policy that should balance public and private interests but the recent rise of “intellectual property” as a concept have overthrown that balance. Copyright, Vaidhyanathan asserts, is policy, not property. Bringing to light the republican principles behind original copyright laws as well as present-day imbalances and future possibilities for freer expression and artistic equity, this volume takes important strides towards unraveling the complex web of culture, law, race, and technology in today's global marketplace. https://www.pandelectures.com/ai-and-technology daily 0.75 2025-11-06 https://www.pandelectures.com/susan-abulhawa-1 daily 0.75 2025-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1582142095269-79XVKRBNOPWCE445IHYQ/abulhawa.jpg SUSAN ABULHAWA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1576275072520-401S4NELZBAV2G6GJ9CF/images.jpg SUSAN ABULHAWA - Against the Loveless World Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa. 2020 Palestine Book Awards Winner 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist In this “beautiful...urgent” novel (The New York Times), Nahr, a young Palestinian woman, fights for a better life for her family as she travels as a refugee throughout the Middle East. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1542313525539-EIPVG5AKBJSYWE0SGNOE/The-Blue-Between-Sky-and-Water.jpg SUSAN ABULHAWA - The Blue Between Sky and Water by Susan Abulhawa Internationally bestselling author Susan Abulhawa's powerful new novel explores the legacy of dispossession across continents and generations. With devastatingly clear-eyed vision of political and personal trauma, The Blue Between Sky and Water is the story of flawed yet profoundly courageous women, of separation and heartache, endurance and renewal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1542313579501-KRMZIPGGDAPYTKTKG1H6/6692041._UY630_SR1200%2C630_.jpg SUSAN ABULHAWA - Morning's in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa Mornings in Jenin is a multi-generational story about a Palestinian family. 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He is at work on a new book about the contested meaning of freedom in the American civil rights and conservative movements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1576004639268-NR9M0SLJVRY9UR1NQA9Y/Raquel_Cepeda_2HR.jpg Speakers - RAQUEL CEPEDA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1690917933179-C8NA2GBFXMOXPZFB66OA/image-asset.jpeg Speakers - MYISHA CHERRY Myisha Cherry is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. She is also the Director of the Emotion and Society Lab. Her research is primarily concerned with the role of emotions and attitudes in public life. Cherry’s books include UnMuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice (Oxford University Press) and, co-edited with Owen Flanagan, The Moral Psychology of Anger (Rowman & Littlefield). Her latest book is The Case for Rage: Why Anger is Essential to Anti-racist Struggle published by Oxford University Press. 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She's also the author of books for young people or anyone who is curious. Her book The UFO Files (Quarto, 2025) combines a sci-fi story with scientific explanations of the marvels found on board an alien spacecraft. 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SAAD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1714435330403-RMQX533P58LB6RGIY29P/Matthew+Salesses-2.jpg Speakers - MATTHEW SALESSES Dr. Matthew Salesses (he/him) is the author of eight books, most recently The Sense of Wonder, the national bestseller Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping (a Best Book of 2021 at NPR, Esquire, Library Journal, Independent Book Review, Chicago Tribune, Electric Literature, and others), and the PEN/Faulkner Finalist and Dublin Literary Award longlisted novel Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1722263651892-1SM4MVLZLUJVFWKIB5II/image-asset.jpeg Speakers - CARRIE SCHUETTPELZ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1715739345300-OAYKABMFJSCIU5UZ9UXW/FullSizeRender.jpeg Speakers - DANYEL SMITH https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/8c66bcbb-9c2e-4bfb-a361-8ae6170f15c2/Brando.png Speakers - BRANDO SIMEO STARKEY Brando Simeo Starkey is a writer and scholar. A graduate of Harvard Law School and a member of the New York Bar, he taught law at Villanova Law School and wrote for several years for ESPN’s The Undefeated (now Andscape). Born and raised in Cincinnati, he lives in Southern California with his wife and two sons. He has launched a newsletter, The Braveverse, about law, politics, and freedom from caste, at the TheBraveverse.com and a YouTube channel covering the same themes at https://www.youtube.com/@TheBraveverse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/43871440-9335-4ba0-a40b-7c98276a4e0e/headshot+2024.JPG Speakers - TIERA TANKSLEY Dr. Tiera Tanksley is a Senior Researcher whose work examines the socioemotional, mental health and academic impacts of digital and artificially intelligent technologies on Black youth. Her work examines anti-Blackness as the “default setting” of schools and school-based technologies, including GenAI chatbots, facial recognition systems, weapons detection systems, and more. Her work simultaneously recognizes Black youth as digital activists and civic agitators, and examines the complex ways they subvert, resist, and rewrite algorithmically biased technologies to produce more-just and joyous digital experiences for Communities of Color across the diaspora. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1717533299306-NFXC3706MNU17EYB5UM0/GSL+headshot+horiz+%282%29.JPG Speakers - ANNABELLE TOMETICH Annabelle Tometich went from medical-school reject to line cook to journalist to author. She spent 18 years as a food writer and restaurant critic for The News-Press in her hometown of Fort Myers, Florida. Her first book is “The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony” (April 2024, Little Brown). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/458e554d-1e5f-4a51-ae13-76308ec8a1c9/Siva-Vaidhyanathan.jpg Speakers - SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1724786488427-D54CZ6CK536GR1XOA6GK/Storey+Headshot+1.png Speakers - OMKARI L. WILLIAMS https://www.pandelectures.com/nicholas-buccola daily 0.75 2025-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/094a9adf-4d5f-475d-9025-30217fda9ae0/Nicholas+Buccola+Headshot.jpg NICHOLAS BUCCOLA - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1745265266341-KPZVO66O2Z6GLN2P0TC6/One%2BMan%27s%2BFreedom.jpeg NICHOLAS BUCCOLA - One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle over an American Ideal by Nicholas Buccola From the acclaimed author of The Fire Is upon Us, the dramatic untold story of Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr.’s decade-long clash over the meaning of freedom—and how their conflicting visions still divide American politics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1582056450642-Q67TPM1KJ1WZ8PHIX2FI/the+fire.jpg NICHOLAS BUCCOLA - The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola How the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminate America's racial divide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1582058082755-51PK4RUHLLGOMTU6R2MM/essentialdouglass-204x300+-+Copy.jpg NICHOLAS BUCCOLA - The Essential Douglass Selected Writings and Speeches Frederick Douglass Edited, with an Introduction, by Nicholas Buccola In addition to a thoughtful selection of the essays, speeches, and autobiographical writings of Frederick Douglass, this anthology provides an illuminating Introduction; a timeline of Douglass’ life; footnotes that introduce individuals, quotations, and events; and a selected bibliography. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1582056800490-08P640V7599T68SPVCI9/The+Political+Thought+of+Frederick+Douglass.jpg NICHOLAS BUCCOLA - The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty by Nicholas Buccola Frederick Douglass, one of the most prominent figures in African-American and United States history, was born a slave, but escaped to the North and became a well-known anti-slavery activist, orator, and author. This book provides an important and original argument about the ideas that animated this reformer-statesman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1582056443425-VPDO46X508ZS4L23YBUT/abraham+lincoln.jpg NICHOLAS BUCCOLA - Preview This Book Abraham Lincoln and Liberal Democracy Edited by Nicholas Buccola Though Abraham Lincoln was not a political philosopher per se, in word and in deed he did grapple with many of the most pressing and timeless questions in politics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1742235797914-NN2WWLE29ZGJDC9TISN9/Panel+Live-10.jpg NICHOLAS BUCCOLA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1742236001546-2MN4GGW55S9E3K5DI5A4/Panel+Live-6.jpg NICHOLAS BUCCOLA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1742235911500-1MK15E66GQO8C3L5MHKD/Panel+Step+and+Repeat-9.jpg NICHOLAS BUCCOLA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1742235891758-QMT70QTT1HH8CN39X18Y/Panel+Step+and+Repeat-15.jpg NICHOLAS BUCCOLA https://www.pandelectures.com/safiya daily 0.75 2026-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/cb275408-76ea-4686-9ba3-60176a844752/SafiyaNoble_2026.jpg.jpg SAFIYA NOBLE Photo Credit: Stella Kallnina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1732213976074-XKVQFTDFJ1NDO8OMNKBQ/algorithms+of+oppression.jpg SAFIYA NOBLE - Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya U. Noble A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms Run a Google search for “Black girls”—what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type in “white girls,” the results are radically different. The suggested porn sites and un-moderated discussions about “why Black women are so sassy” or “why Black women are so angry” presents a disturbing portrait of Black womanhood in modern society. In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities. Data discrimination is a real social problem; Noble argues that the combination of private interests in promoting certain sites, along with the monopoly status of a relatively small number of Internet search engines, leads to a biased set of search algorithms that privilege whiteness and discriminate against people of color, specifically women of color. Through an analysis of textual and media searches as well as extensive research on paid online advertising, Noble exposes a culture of racism and sexism in the way discoverability is created online. As search engines and their related companies grow in importance—operating as a source for email, a major vehicle for primary and secondary school learning, and beyond—understanding and reversing these disquieting trends and discriminatory practices is of utmost importance. An original, surprising and, at times, disturbing account of bias on the internet, Algorithms of Oppressioncontributes to our understanding of how racism is created, maintained, and disseminated in the 21st century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1732214327890-P6R5CVJPYLFZ047Q3HAM/intersectional+internet+vol.+1+cover.jpg SAFIYA NOBLE - The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class, and Culture Online edited by Safiya U. Noble From race, sex, class, and culture, the multidisciplinary field of Internet studies needs theoretical and methodological approaches that allow us to question the organization of social relations that are embedded in digital technologies, and that foster a clearer understanding of how power relations are organized through technologies. Representing a scholarly dialogue among established and emerging critical media and information studies scholars, this volume provides a means of foregrounding new questions, methods, and theories which can be applied to digital media, platforms, and infrastructures. These inquiries include, among others, how representation to hardware, software, computer code, and infrastructures might be implicated in global economic, political, and social systems of control. Contributors argue that more research needs to explicitly trace the types of uneven power relations that exist in technological spaces. By looking at both the broader political and economic context and the many digital technology acculturation processes as they are differentiated intersectionally, a clearer picture emerges of how under-acknowledging culturally situated and gendered information technologies are impacting the possibility of participation with (or purposeful abstinence from) the Internet. This book is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in Internet studies, library and information studies, communication, sociology, and psychology. It is also ideal for researchers with varying expertise and will help to advance theoretical and methodological approaches to Internet research. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1732214478831-STHG8FP3VQE0PX0188F3/Emotions+Technology+and+Design+Cover+edited+by+Safiya+U.+Noble.jpg SAFIYA NOBLE - Emotions, Technology, and Design edited by Safiya U. Noble Emotional design explicitly addresses the emotional relationship between the objects and the subjects of design—in this book, the objects are technologies, and the subjects are technology users. The first section delves into the philosophy and theory of emotional design to provide a foundation for the rest of the book, which goes on to discuss emotional design principles, the design and use of emoticons, and then intelligent agents in a variety of settings. A conclusion chapter covers future research and directions. Emotions, Technology, and Design provides a thorough look at how technology design affects emotions and how to use that understanding to in practical applications. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/6a9a66a8-8ba7-41d6-9443-373aa14d5542/TIME+100+Talk+with+Safiya+U.+Noble.png SAFIYA NOBLE - Make it stand out Safiya U. Noble and Tristan Harris | TIME100 Talks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1732559204031-AYYLZHYKCKQPZEQVL391/AICAD+Symposium+2024-4744.jpg SAFIYA NOBLE - Safiya Noble at AICAD Symposium https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1732559189324-56CLUVG662ZVWXUZZLBE/_MGL4249-2.jpg SAFIYA NOBLE - Safiya U. Noble Accepting Octavia Butler Award https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1732559196118-CB7TOB16UU5NM7B826Z4/20213_CEHS_PHOTO_TR+Johnson+Speaker+Series_22-011.jpg SAFIYA NOBLE - Safiya U. Noble at CMU https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1732559313704-FJISIRQ4BSMRNKWC5SL1/Safiya+Noble+at+SFU.png SAFIYA NOBLE - Safiya U. Noble at SFU https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1732559275985-FNRD49CXDH39AOQ75F7S/PLC07044_RGB.jpg SAFIYA NOBLE - Safiya U. Noble at UPenn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1732559284810-4P52W1ANGQWAJK25EQMS/_MGL4286-2.jpg SAFIYA NOBLE - Safiya U. Noble at Forward Conference https://www.pandelectures.com/tiffany-jewell daily 0.75 2026-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/7fcb6c08-6c07-4bda-b8ce-6a3b2476f690/TiffanyJewell-266.jpg TIFFANY JEWELL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1695834935425-PV9D92IMVY3NK5TI7RSR/everything+i+learned+about+racism+i+learned+in+school.jpg TIFFANY JEWELL - Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School By Tiffany Jewell From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Book Is Anti-Racist and The Antiracist Kid, Tiffany Jewell, this YA nonfiction book, highlighting inequities Black and Brown students face from preschool through college, is the most important, empowering read this year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1642174124819-B4WQC8PHOD7766HZL5S5/AntiracistKid_CVR.jpg TIFFANY JEWELL - The Antiracist Kid A Book About Identity, Justice, and Activism By Tiffany Jewell, From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Book Is Anti-Racist, Tiffany Jewell, with art by Eisner-nominated illustrator Nicole Miles, The Antiracist Kid is the essential illustrated guide to antiracism for empowering the young readers in your life! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1642174322610-5VVE21GP02TP1GU1Y6MZ/81iwRGI88vL-2.jpg TIFFANY JEWELL - THIS BOOK IS ANTI-RACIST JOURNAL by Tiffany Jewell An official companion to the #1 New York Times bestseller, this guided journal contains more than 50 activities to support your anti-racism journey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1642174256316-O29944UE0IYCLLDHTO8S/812-S%2Bb9PZS.jpg TIFFANY JEWELL - This Book Is Anti-Racist By Tiffany Jewell Who are you? What is racism? Where does it come from? Why does it exist? What can you do to disrupt it? Learn about social identities, the history of racism and resistance against it, and how you can use your anti-racist lens and voice to move the world toward equity and liberation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1769179136707-TJ4NVQBJC26WC743B2WY/MAIN+STREET.jpg TIFFANY JEWELL - Main Street A Community Story About Redlining By Britt Hawthorne and Tiffany Jewell A girl learns how the history of redlining has affected her neighborhood in this intergenerational picture book about racism, community action, and resilience by two New York Times bestselling authors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1770394104389-9P0FNI82PFXHPSGKLBLN/Screenshot+2026-02-06+at+11.08.16%E2%80%AFAM.png TIFFANY JEWELL - Main Street Teacher’s Guide By Britt Hawthorne Tiffany Jewell Main Street Teacher’s Guide By Britt Hawthorne Tiffany Jewell https://www.pandelectures.com/layla-f-saad daily 0.75 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1596208945834-DM5KE9HN6IOMQTIF3H4O/Layla+Saad+Author+Photo.JPG LAYLA F. SAAD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1724962414007-LI6C3Q5A38R4D0BPCK91/me+and+white+supremacy+by+layla+f.+saad.jpg LAYLA F. SAAD - Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad This eye-opening book challenges you to do the essential work of unpacking your biases, and helps white people take action and dismantle the privilege within themselves so that you can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too. Based on the viral Instagram challenge that captivated participants worldwide, Me and White Supremacy takes readers on a 28-day journey, complete with journal prompts, to do the necessary and vital work that can ultimately lead to improving race relations. Updated and expanded from the original workbook (downloaded by nearly 100,000 people), this critical text helps you take the work deeper by adding more historical and cultural contexts, sharing moving stories and anecdotes, and including expanded definitions, examples, and further resources, giving you the language to understand racism, and to dismantle your own biases, whether you are using the book on your own, with a book club, or looking to start family activism in your own home. This book will walk you step-by-step through the work of examining: Examining your own white privilege What allyship really means Anti-blackness, racial stereotypes, and cultural appropriation Changing the way that you view and respond to race How to continue the work to create social change Awareness leads to action, and action leads to change. For readers of White Fragility, White Rage, So You Want To Talk About Race,The New Jim Crow, How to Be an Anti-Racist and more who are ready to closely examine their own beliefs and biases and do the work it will take to create social change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1724963246788-XKS6X4XRNPHI9H7E52BU/Me+and+White+Supremacy+Guided+Journal+by+Layla+F.+Saad.jpg LAYLA F. SAAD - Me and White Supremacy: A Guided Journal by Layla F. Saad Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor with Me and White Supremacy Author Layla F. Saad wrote Me and White Supremacy to encourage people who hold white privilege to examine their (often unconscious) racist thoughts and behaviors through a unique, 28-day reflection process complete with journaling prompts. This guided journal, which includes the book's original weekly prompts and lots of space for note-taking and free-writing, is the perfect place to begin your antiracism journey. You will unpack: Week One: White Privilege; White Fragility; Tone Policing; White Silence; White Superiority; White Exceptionalism Week Two: Color Blindness; Anti-Blackness against Black Women, Black Men, and Black Children; Racist Stereotypes; Cultural Appropriation Week Three: White Apathy; White Centering; Tokenism; White Saviorism; Optical Allyship; Being Called Out/Called In Week Four: Friends; Family; Values; Losing Privilege; Your Commitments. Awareness leads to action, and action leads to change. Create the change the world needs by creating change within yourself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1724962898878-AWX54RRKA4C6XFWR86Y9/Me+and+White+Supremacy+Young+Readers%27+Edition+Become+an+Antiracist+Changemaker+by+Layla+F.+Saad.jpg LAYLA F. SAAD - Me and White Supremacy: Young Readers' Edition: Become an Antiracist Changemaker by Layla F. Saad How do we give young people the tools they need to actively dismantle racism and create a better world for everyone? From the author of the groundbreaking NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, Me and White Supremacy, Layla Saad's young readers' edition is a timely, crucial, and empowering guide for today's youth on how to be antiracist change makers. Layla Saad meticulously updated the content for young readers to include: definitions and history of various topics covered sections to help readers process complex topics no time limit—unlike the adult edition, this is not a 28-day challenge so readers can use this content for however long it takes to do the work content that is approachable and applicable for those with and without white privilege Me and White Supremacy has reached so many adults in their journeys to become better ancestors. This edition aims to teach readers how to explore and understand racism and white supremacy and how young readers can do their part to help change the world. Covering topics such as white privilege, white fragility, racist stereotypes, cultural appropriation, and more, Layla Saad has developed a brilliant introduction and deep dive that is sure to become a standard in antiracist education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1724963107997-CCBMY0AGTMFZ2W6U4GB0/Become+an+Antiracist+Changemaker+Young+Readers+Guided+Journal+by+Layla+F.+Saad.jpg LAYLA F. SAAD - Become an Antiracist Changemaker: The official companion journal of Me and White Supremacy Young Readers’ Edition by Layla F. Saad Are you ready to do your part to create a better world? This official guided journal companion to Me and White Supremacy: Young Readers Edition includes everything kids need as they learn, grow, and embark on their antiracism journey, including: Easy-to-understand explanations of key topics like racism, white privilege, cultural appropriation, and more Reflection questions from Me and White Supremacy: Young Readers Edition Plenty of space for readers to respond to prompts, take notes, free write, and check in with their emotions This timely, crucial, and empowering journal is designed to help kids become changemakers. As readers make their way through the questions and activities at their own pace, they'll craft a powerful resource to use as they join the fight against racism and white supremacy. https://www.pandelectures.com/tony-keith-1 daily 0.75 2025-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/0236ba70-8c7a-40a2-887a-5fb10e252ada/Tony+Keith+Jr.jpg Tony Keith, Jr. Photo Credit: Randolph Garrett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1695834208893-YUGTFD2AJW0NYZV6AEPX/Boogeyman_HC_C_03.jpg Tony Keith, Jr. - How the Boogeyman Became a Poet By Tony Keith Jr. Poet, writer, and hip-hop educator Tony Keith Jr. makes his debut with a powerful YA memoir in verse, tracing his journey from being a closeted gay Black teen battling poverty, racism, and homophobia to becoming an openly gay first-generation college student who finds freedom in poetry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1727892528813-1WN1YN11QZX6IEPKAA2O/Knucklehead+by+Tony+Keith+Jr.jpg Tony Keith, Jr. - Knucklehead: Poems by Tony Keith Jr. While society often assigns the label “knucklehead” to kids with attitude problems, this brilliant and electric poetry collection by spoken word poet and hip-hop educator Tony Keith Jr. subverts that narrow way of thinking and empathizes with young people who are misunderstood and unheard. There are poems about the power of language to transcend the racist and homophobic constructs of a society prejudging Black boys. There are poems that serve as a salve for a world that inflicts hurt, poems that offer a beacon of hope for the curious and questioning, and poems that transform the way people love Black gay boys and men. This is a journey of self-discovery through history, family, friendship, and falling in love. Knucklehead is a breathtaking work, full of black-and-white illustrations and unforgettable poetry that will heal, provoke, and inspire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1757358756709-DB25BCNPXE83RB6LUFB8/SASB_2025_07_31_Teen+Voices+Festival-07198.jpeg Tony Keith, Jr. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1757358794741-J5RFCWWV0XSIX4O1TJTX/SASB_2025_07_31_Teen+Voices+Festival-07248.jpeg Tony Keith, Jr. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1757358769297-5HS9M1PXOIXRT4HWQ13W/SASB_2025_07_31_Teen+Voices+Festival-07204.jpeg Tony Keith, Jr. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1757358828541-UIUNSMH4GZ9V4PU0QE4L/1344-1344-4.jpeg Tony Keith, Jr. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1757358847387-98T3IN4WY69X5OVJGNTO/1344-1344-10.jpeg Tony Keith, Jr. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1757358849235-0O8SU356WLQS3IQX7P02/1344-1344-9.jpeg Tony Keith, Jr. https://www.pandelectures.com/britt-hawthorne daily 0.75 2026-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/ec94c8fe-bedd-476f-bd14-b9ac964e28bf/Screen+Shot+2021-09-29+at+10.15.30+AM.jpg BRITT HAWTHORNE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1769178589744-H5DIKM68OBY06VC7A50U/RAISING+ANTIRACIST+CHILDREN.jpg BRITT HAWTHORNE - Raising Antiracist Children A Practical Parenting Guide By Britt Hawthorne NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A must-have guide to raising inclusive, antiracist children from educator and advocate, Britt Hawthorne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1769178525542-022DC6DRJBWAV4U4R9WR/MAIN+STREET.jpg BRITT HAWTHORNE - Main Street A Community Story About Redlining By Britt Hawthorne and Tiffany Jewell A girl learns how the history of redlining has affected her neighborhood in this intergenerational picture book about racism, community action, and resilience by two New York Times bestselling authors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1770394104389-9P0FNI82PFXHPSGKLBLN/Screenshot+2026-02-06+at+11.08.16%E2%80%AFAM.png BRITT HAWTHORNE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1724707431418-OMW8GN379I1JTHILJKQ8/240110AI_BrittHawthorne_Photo_AdamSilverman26.jpg BRITT HAWTHORNE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1724707466561-BKX1VHVKEQQH40MBDN04/240110AI_BrittHawthorne_Photo_AdamSilverman37.jpg BRITT HAWTHORNE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1724707549748-97QBUFMMINCVT9X899J8/240110AI_BrittHawthorne_Photo_AdamSilverman82.jpg BRITT HAWTHORNE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1724707641591-6PWEIVPZ0E3458VBA4MI/IMG_1853.JPG BRITT HAWTHORNE https://www.pandelectures.com/joel-christian-gill daily 0.75 2026-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/5dbf98c0-40c4-4ce8-b421-2ed182bb0f41/Screenshot+2026-03-17+at+1.19.11%E2%80%AFPM.png JOEL CHRISTIAN GILL Photo Credit: Tami Nguyen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1706807376608-LE8KIXI3TOU2Z1C3DC3C/9781984859433.jpg JOEL CHRISTIAN GILL - Stamped from the Beginning A GRAPHIC HISTORY OF RACIST IDEAS IN AMERICA By Ibram X. Kendi and Joel Christian Gill Racism has persisted throughout history—but so have antiracist efforts to dismantle it. Through deep research and a gripping narrative that illuminates the lives of five key American figures, preeminent historian Ibram X. Kendi reveals how understanding and improving the world cannot happen without identifying and facing the racist forces that shape it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1676689126238-DUY22XE538RJF4UJ82G1/JCG%2BFights%2BBook%2BCover.jpg JOEL CHRISTIAN GILL - Fights One Boy's Triumph Over Violence By Joel Christian Gill Fights is the visceral and deeply affecting memoir of artist/author Joel Christian Gill, chronicling his youth and coming of age as a Black child in a chaotic landscape of rough city streets and foreboding backwoods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1676689178018-PCPUFP1PVHNYCXB30UYR/Strange%252BFruit%252BVolume%252BI.jpg JOEL CHRISTIAN GILL - Strange Fruit, Volume I Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History By Joel Christian Gill Strange Fruit Volume I is a collection of stories from early African American history that represent the oddity of success in the face of great adversity. Each of the nine illustrated chapters chronicles an uncelebrated African American hero or event. From the adventures of lawman Bass Reeves, to Henry “Box” Brown’s daring escape from slavery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1676689164528-88D3DHJ84D5DQFZDCEGR/Strange%252BFruit.jpg JOEL CHRISTIAN GILL - Strange Fruit, Volume II More Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History By Joel Christian Gill Like all legends, people fade away, but not before leaving an incredible legacy. Strange Fruit, Volume II: More Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History is a collection of stories from early African American history that represent the oddity of success in the face of great adversity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1676689047125-HT4CB9M3958OSU34UCBH/Fast%2BEnough.jpeg JOEL CHRISTIAN GILL - Fast Enough Bessie Stringfield's First Ride By Joel Christian Gill Have you ever been told that you’re not enough? That you’re not strong enough, tall enough, fast enough? Bessie was told she was not enough. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1731959822146-F43K4TTH2I664CJHQ0T8/DSC_9911+%281%29.jpeg JOEL CHRISTIAN GILL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1731959851784-53BNBGX2SALFH76CWXBS/DSC_9924+%281%29.jpeg JOEL CHRISTIAN GILL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1731959886835-NMX0VNMT72ZH1DG7LYHO/IMG_5673+%281%29.JPG JOEL CHRISTIAN GILL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1731960007622-HPOKMNPWCVWJHYWQG82W/10.16+Panel_DSC2502+%281%29.JPG JOEL CHRISTIAN GILL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1731960018867-4VE9OIKGYIB5SHHC0ENI/Graphic+Novelist+panel+%281%29.jpg JOEL CHRISTIAN GILL https://www.pandelectures.com/patricia-engel daily 0.75 2025-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/0184f3c3-4115-4b70-9a54-06d697396891/Engel-1.jpg PATRICIA ENGEL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1674595768440-EHFVQOGWPTJOV9IVEZ2I/the%2Bfaraway%2Bworld.jpeg PATRICIA ENGEL - The Faraway World By Patricia Engel From the author of Infinite Country—a New York Times bestseller and a Reese’s Book Club pick—comes a “rich and compelling” (The Washington Post) collection of ten exquisite, award-winning short stories set across the Americas and linked by themes of migration, sacrifice, and moral compromise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1638558340681-KJU520O6RKC5T80O7FQ6/41bPQcsh0IL._SX322_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg PATRICIA ENGEL - Infinite Country by Patricia Engel I often wonder if we are living the wrong life in the wrong country. Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted. She urgently needs to get out and get back home to Bogotá, where her father and a plane ticket to the United States are waiting for her. If she misses her flight, she might also miss her chance to finally be reunited with her family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1638558355949-Q0S1JEUOYL05VFR7ET18/infinite-country-9781982159474_lg.jpg PATRICIA ENGEL - Infinite Country by Patricia Engel Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted. She urgently needs to get out and get back home to Bogotá, where her father and a plane ticket to the United States are waiting for her. If she misses her flight, she might also miss her chance to finally be reunited with her family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1638558340806-6JAVP411ND1QQOYH8KDN/Veins-of-the-Ocean-cover.jpg PATRICIA ENGEL - The Veins of the Ocean by Patricia Engel The extraordinary new novel from award-winning author Patricia Engel, The Veins of the Ocean is a heartrending story of one woman’s devotion to her death row-convicted brother and her journey away from a painful past. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1638558340221-GZ279HA3X1ZHJCHJXTWQ/its-not-love.jpg PATRICIA ENGEL - It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris Lita del Cielo has been granted one year to pursue her studies in Paris before returning to work in the family business. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1638558340181-DXQKY0A6IR03O5RP59L4/vida.jpg PATRICIA ENGEL - Vida Vida follows a single narrator, Sabina, as she navigates her shifting identity as a daughter of the Colombian diaspora and struggles to find her place within and beyond the net of her strong, protective, but embattled family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1720748387966-EI0KG03RHP0P8RQ9RGHC/IMG_0080.png PATRICIA ENGEL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1720748486928-NE1YQRCUZAL7983SFF3Z/IMG_0088.png PATRICIA ENGEL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1720748758011-ZO0B1VW80HOLGJ6FTBV8/Screen+Shot+2024-07-11+at+3.45.45+PM.png PATRICIA ENGEL https://www.pandelectures.com/allissa-richardson daily 0.75 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/e6ffcd54-3f99-4fce-bca6-2366dd465677/Allissa+Richardson+Headshot ALLISSA V. 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Williams Nautilus Book Awards, Gold Winner Everyone can be an activist with the guidance of Omkari Williams, a life coach who guides readers in identifying their "activist archetype" and mapping a personal action plan for engaging in small, change-making activities with potentially big impacts. In this age of social justice, those who don't necessarily want to lead a movement or join a protest march are left wondering, "How can I make an impact?" In Micro Activism , former political consultant turned activism coach Omkari Williams shares her expertise in empowering introverts and highly sensitive people to help each of us, no matter our temperament, find our most satisfying and effective activist role. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/50fdbf52-e08a-476f-94f7-361326bab0f2/Teacher+Summit+happening+at+Kauffman+Foundation+on+Saturday%21 OMKARI WILLIAMS - Make it stand out Teacher Summit happening at Kauffman Foundation on Saturday! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/0d210666-397d-4675-96b3-ba45eefadab7/Omkari+L.+Williams+on+Live+Well+Sister.png OMKARI WILLIAMS - Make it stand out Live Well, Sister! with Marcie L. Thomas, featuring Omkari L. 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BALDWIN Davarian L. Baldwin Photo Credit: VisionMerge Productions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1713373202123-RP0QH7Q5HOS95E2FQ3SW/In+the+Shadow+of+the+Ivory+Tower+Book+Cover.jpg DAVARIAN L. BALDWIN - In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities Across America, universities have become big businesses—and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow. Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But they also gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and attract students. They maintain private police forces that target the Black and Latinx neighborhoods nearby. They become the primary employers, dictating labor practices and suppressing wages. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower takes readers from Hartford to Chicago and from Phoenix to Manhattan, revealing the increasingly parasitic relationship between universities and our cities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1713373347113-XO9QSLNFRF6FXZ6YYOS2/Chicago%27s+New+Negroes+Book+Cover.jpg DAVARIAN L. BALDWIN - Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life As early-twentieth-century Chicago swelled with an influx of at least 250,000 new black urban migrants, the city became a center of consumer capitalism, flourishing with professional sports, beauty shops, film production companies, recording studios, and other black cultural and communal institutions. Davarian Baldwin argues that this mass consumer marketplace generated a vibrant intellectual life and planted seeds of political dissent against the dehumanizing effects of white capitalism. Pushing the traditional boundaries of the Harlem Renaissance to new frontiers, Baldwin identifies a fresh model of urban culture rich with politics, ingenuity, and entrepreneurship. Baldwin explores an abundant archive of cultural formations where an array of white observers, black cultural producers, critics, activists, reformers, and black migrant consumers converged in what he terms a “marketplace intellectual life.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1713373738810-NNY88MA6MBF2BGQGWE1K/Escape+from+New+York+Cover.jpg DAVARIAN L. BALDWIN - Escape from New York: The New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem co-edited by Davarian L. Baldwin Resituating the Harlem Renaissance—and the New Negro movement—in broader global political and cultural currents In this volume, the Harlem Renaissance “escapes from New York” into its proper global context, recovering the broader New Negro experience as social movements, popular cultures, and public behavior spanned the globe. Highlighting how New Negroes and their allies already lived, the book stresses the need for scholarship to catch up with the historical reality of the New Negro experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1714426738246-DA2C7W0CW8DXS8KDAI59/World+of+the+Harlem+Renaissance+Puzzle.jpg DAVARIAN L. BALDWIN - World of the Harlem Renaissance Jigsaw Puzzle text by Davarian L. Baldwin Step back in history to one of New York's most vibrant moments in this jigsaw puzzle abuzz with the artists of the Harlem Renaissance. Set in Harlem in the first decades of the twentieth century, the puzzle includes such famous names as Langston Hughes, Fannie Hurst, Jean Toomer, Carl Van Vechten, Zora Neale Hurston, W.E.B. Du Bois, Josephine Baker, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Gladys Bentley. From fine artists and musicians to novelists, poets, and thinkers, The World of the Harlem Renaissance is a who's who of people who laid the foundations of New York culture in the twentieth century... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1727457548888-520AB2IRHDM04KND300L/Baldwin-6.jpg DAVARIAN L. BALDWIN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1727457565499-0KHNB13IX0PH8RTCXIWI/Baldwin-11.jpg DAVARIAN L. BALDWIN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1727457577349-XLHGEQLEY6LODAES42CA/Baldwin-7.jpg DAVARIAN L. BALDWIN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1727457605781-A6MZCSX6GN4FSH73LYR8/Baldwin-19.jpg DAVARIAN L. BALDWIN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1727457592967-7QF1IGJ6S3PCGNSXHKZB/Baldwin-23.jpg DAVARIAN L. BALDWIN https://www.pandelectures.com/annabelle-tometich daily 0.75 2026-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/b23729fb-af8d-4d99-863d-9fc1aa8812bc/Annabelle+Tometich+headshot+vert.jpg ANNABELLE TOMETICH https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1717444023215-77ZXKVGDMUNL0P0J3BBO/Mango%2BTree_3D.jpg ANNABELLE TOMETICH - The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony by Annabelle Tometich When journalist Annabelle Tometich picks up the phone one June morning, she isn't expecting a collect call from an inmate at the Lee County Jail. And when she accepts, she certainly isn't prepared to hear her mother's voice on the other end of the line. However, explaining the situation to her younger siblings afterwards was easy; all she had to say was, "Mom shot at some guy. He was messing with her mangoes." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1770394460322-3VQJ6XHLZJ4TRVWAMHZK/Screenshot%2B2026-02-06%2Bat%2B11.11.45%25E2%2580%25AFAM.png ANNABELLE TOMETICH - The Mango Tree Book Club Kit The Mango Tree Book Club Kit by Annabelle Tometich: Including discussion questions, mango shooter recipe, mango chutney recipe, author Q&A, and a note from Annabelle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1717532400980-NSK0FYVKL0ED32N9ULYO/GSL+headshot+horiz+%281%29.JPG ANNABELLE TOMETICH - Annabelle Tometich Headhshot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1718051196253-UYIOH7ZWKTC3MVHOOSCC/Annabelle+on+the+Best+Bite+in+Town.png ANNABELLE TOMETICH - Annabell on Best Bite in Town https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1718051085806-EZP03IXA7YWDBAZ2M30N/The+Mango+Tree+Book+Tour+Logo.png ANNABELLE TOMETICH - The Mango Tree Book Tour Logo logo featuring a squirrel in a mango tree https://www.pandelectures.com/andrea-freeman daily 0.75 2026-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/e1980966-0ff3-4be0-8510-e937f90f7466/ANDREA+FREEMAN_Headshot.JPG ANDREA FREEMAN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1718147350857-7TNSXWG4DRZVQ1P2J35K/Ruin+Their+Crops+on+the+Ground_Andrea+Freeman.png ANDREA FREEMAN - Ruin Their Crops on the Ground The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch by Andrea Freeman The first and definitive history of the use of food in United States law and politics as a weapon of conquest and control, a Fast Food Nation for the Black Lives Matter era. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1718147361279-9GAIMOJYFY31IHC4UE45/Skimmed%2Bhigh-res%2Bcover.jpeg ANDREA FREEMAN - Skimmed Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice by ANDREA FREEMAN Since slavery, legal, political, and societal factors have routinely denied Black women the ability to choose how to feed their babies. In Skimmed, Andrea Freeman tells the riveting story of the Fultz quadruplets while uncovering how feeding America's youngest citizens is awash in social, legal, and cultural inequalities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/122ae767-647f-4aa8-8456-bed06e703a2a/Andrea+Freeman+on+ABC+News.png ANDREA FREEMAN - Make it stand out ABC News’ Juju Chang spoke with Andrea Freeman on her new book Ruin Their Crops on the Ground, which uncovers how food laws and corporations have impacted marginalized communities' access to healthy food. https://www.pandelectures.com/jamilah-pitts daily 0.75 2025-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/ad94ceab-f461-41af-8e6c-61c6fa35f178/Jamilah+Pitts+Headshot+by+Chloe-Jackman-Photography-Studio.jpg JAMILAH PITTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1718393713714-QVIHDIRRK4MPHF341XDO/Toward+Libraration+Book+Cover.jpg JAMILAH PITTS - Toward Liberation: Educational Practices Rooted in Activism, Healing, and Love by Jamilah Pitts An essential guide for frontline educators to address systemic racial oppression, repair harm, and foster safe, liberatory learning spaces for their students For educators and readers of Bettina Love’s We Want to Do More Than Survive, with a foreword by Leigh Patel, author of No Study Without Struggle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/54d30ae2-503b-4ebf-8adf-4d226183135c/Screenshot+2024-08-13+at+12.08.45%E2%80%AFPM.png JAMILAH PITTS - Make it stand out Green Apple Books Presents: Jamilah Pitts and Berna Anat in Conversation about Toward Liberation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/00953d72-fdbf-4572-9fc6-d72b8727d26d/Screenshot+2024-08-13+at+12.11.26%E2%80%AFPM.png JAMILAH PITTS - Make it stand out Jamilah Pitts on the Liberation Lab https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1718397377587-Z8WRO8O7F1TBGN3T0VNH/Chloe-Jackman-Photography-Studio-Lifestyle-Photos-2021-61.jpg JAMILAH PITTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1718397217837-MKUVH7D3C0N7PDVHVLV4/Jamilah-Pitts-Headshot-by-Chloe-Jackman-Photography.jpg JAMILAH PITTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1718397218358-H6Q3SOG83VED49CP46IJ/Chloe-Jackman-Photography-Studio-Lifestyle-Photos-2021-94.jpg JAMILAH PITTS https://www.pandelectures.com/lee-hawkins daily 0.75 2026-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/03dca8e9-5d55-46bf-b331-3f337fd29944/Lee+Hawkins+Headshot.jpg LEE HAWKINS Davarian L. 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Welcome to the There is no Neutrality Challenge, where we empower current and future community leaders and event hosts (or anyone!) to abandon neutrality, embrace discomfort, and commit to changemaking. What positive impact are you going to make on your community? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1728087970043-6RRY16RCV23KU7MM9I8L/unsplash-image-x_OKGbxB3fA.jpg Resources for Event Hosts - Event Planner’s Digest Each month we send out a free newsletter featuring event trends, programming ideas, resource recommendations, featured speaker news, and planning advice. This newsletter goes out once per month, typically on the first Monday of the month. Here’s a preview of our March 2026 newsletter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/3f0bc16d-d1c0-411c-824f-26021cc961cd/Screenshot+2025-10-21+at+9.15.41%E2%80%AFAM.png Resources for Event Hosts - We’re on Substack Our Substack publication Shift the Mic is dedicated to addressing changemaking for event planners. It’s our goal to share advice, recommendations, strategies, and stories so that everyone can feel empowered to ‘shift the mic’ and center new voices and ideas. Check out Shift the Mic! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/65f44235-250f-4904-a831-5f7e6e7acdaf/January+2026+Page+1 Resources for Event Hosts - Make it stand out First page of the 2026 Programming Calendar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/7e226d0d-8da4-41aa-a2f1-76378c782140/January+2026+Page+2 Resources for Event Hosts - Make it stand out Second page of the 2026 Programming Calendar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1761074459394-2NZ7A3NY3DXJDTNBZRX9/Book+Club+Kit_Their+Accomplices+Wore+Robes.jpg Resources for Event Hosts - Their Accomplices Wore Robes Book Club Kit Their Accomplices Wore Robes by Brando Simeo Starkey Book Club Kit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1761074394613-AS54O75DJ42KN0RB4SJS/Book+Club+Kit_Stop+Me+If+You%27ve+Heard+This+ONe.jpg Resources for Event Hosts - Stop Me If You've Heard This One Book Club Kit Stop Me If You've Heard This One by Kristen Arnett Book Club Kit and discussion guide https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1761074441740-EXR1CFHSMYSUQ4LIJJTE/I%27ll+Love+you+Forever_Book+Club+Guide.jpg Resources for Event Hosts - I'll Love You Forever Book Club Kit I'll Love You Forever by Giaae Kwon Book Club Kit and Discussion Guide https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1761074398671-2U4Y5J0H02IFJYJAT45E/Book+Club+Kit_Yours+Eventually.jpg Resources for Event Hosts - Yours Eventually Book Club Kit Yours, Eventually by Nura Maznavi Book Club Kit and Discussion Guide https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1761074574408-6JH3MQ4SARD31S6XTAK5/Screenshot+2025-10-21+at+9.22.40%E2%80%AFAM.png Resources for Event Hosts - The Indian Card Book Club Kit The Indian Card by Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz Book Club Kit and Discussion Guide https://www.pandelectures.com/funding-guide-landing-page-copy daily 0.75 2024-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/844bfa75-5de1-4d0b-9df0-08bac7cc6c2a/Screenshot+2024-11-25+at+12.57.49%E2%80%AFPM.jpg Funding Guide Landing Page (Copy) https://www.pandelectures.com/trevor-baldwin daily 0.75 2025-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/ea11bd79-9ea7-4d8d-a517-c4b8dd4e233e/Trevor+Baldwin+Headshot TREVOR BALDWIN Trevor Baldwin | Photo Credit: Burroughs Lamar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1742236402625-0TSTUC92PW57CLGO3CCD/Panel+Live-19.jpg TREVOR BALDWIN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1742236429433-TKA0MEVP8MNDG5Z076TT/Copy+of+Panel+Step+and+Repeat-12.jpg TREVOR BALDWIN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1742236513835-SKX7C97IKQW22D1FLE3T/Copy+of+Panel+Step+and+Repeat-15.jpg TREVOR BALDWIN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1760985947136-74F0132HD3W57U9HZUB0/Screenshot+2025-10-20+at+8.45.20%E2%80%AFAM.png TREVOR BALDWIN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1760985996094-KHGE33DAZZLR4JSSJ86K/Screenshot+2025-10-20+at+8.46.18%E2%80%AFAM.png TREVOR BALDWIN https://www.pandelectures.com/gloria-munoz daily 0.75 2025-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/68c27974-dbb2-4066-8d81-b39f28281061/GLORIA+MUNOZ+HEADSHOT_2024.jpg GLORIA MUÑOZ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1742245203857-X8RG1UBWP7MCKXO1ITG9/This+Is+the+Year+cvr+%283%29.jpg GLORIA MUÑOZ - THIS IS THE YEAR This dazzling YA cli-fi written in prose and verse will speak to any reader struggling with the state of our world and how to understand their place in it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1742245207941-1UTK0IKZ0L5THQQ9WU2C/9780816542338-796x1024.jpg GLORIA MUÑOZ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1742248639619-84INE4U1CS66SJZ2FB1W/YOUR+BIOME+HAS+FOUND+YOU.jpg GLORIA MUÑOZ - YOUR BIOME HAS FOUND YOU “At times lyrical, at times narrative, the poems in Your Biome Has Found You happen at the turbulent crossing of self, family, and culture. They are works of both passion and compassion and they mark the debut of a writer for whom art and moral citizenship are, blessedly, synonymous.” –Jay Hopler https://www.pandelectures.com/jezz-chung daily 0.75 2025-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/d8a0b880-605e-4c15-b501-d098adb475d7/Jezz+Chung+headshot+2024+photo+by+Mary+Kang.jpg JEZZ CHUNG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1744672324634-JBKDB18Q26PHX8D7X01D/This+Way+to+Change+Book+Cover.jpg JEZZ CHUNG - THIS WAY TO CHANGE by Jezz Chung A gentle guide to personal transformation and collective liberation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1744672472447-WC1NLLFKENDCZ1XFUHKO/This+Way+to+Change+by+Jezz+Chung+Discussion+Guide.jpg JEZZ CHUNG - This Way to Change Discussion Guide https://www.pandelectures.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/ce2a84b5-f489-425f-b947-6a6728bdfc64/PLM+Team.png Contact Us - Make it stand out The PLM Team: Karuna, Katharyn, and Ayesha We connect you with authors and thought leaders who will spark meaningful discussions at your next event. Ask us who would be a good fit for your audience and goals! https://www.pandelectures.com/new-speaker-books daily 0.75 2026-01-27 https://www.pandelectures.com/brando-simeo-starkey daily 0.75 2025-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/8c66bcbb-9c2e-4bfb-a361-8ae6170f15c2/Brando.png Brando Simeo Starkey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1752084552375-FC1YJV2L4ZPSC14BZB4W/Book+image+%281%29.jpeg Brando Simeo Starkey - Their Accomplices Wore Robes Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System By Brando Simeo Starkey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/7bba5e2d-d927-4f3e-af74-39fdbcd6fdc5/Book+Club+Kit_Their+Accomplices+Wore+Robes.jpg Brando Simeo Starkey - Book Club Discussion Guide for Brando Simeo Starkey’s THEIR ACCOMPLICES WORE ROBES: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System Book Club kit includes discussion questions and unique book-centered event ideas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1752084644138-107BJ3ZVJ6VHWYX0BBCU/In+defense+of+uncle+tom.jpg Brando Simeo Starkey - In Defense of Uncle Tom In Defense of Uncle Tom: Why Blacks Must Police Racial Loyalty by Brando Simeo Starkey https://www.pandelectures.com/noah-giansiracusa daily 0.75 2026-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/0e03ffdb-e41b-4a03-aaf2-ed7b8dc0950a/OECD3.jpg NOAH GIANSIRACUSA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1754603132577-T5K17TUPNQ6YFS1FWQTX/ROBIN+HOOD+MATH+Jacket.jpg NOAH GIANSIRACUSA - Robin Hood Math Take Control of the Algorithms That Run Your Life By Noah Giansiracusa How the rich and powerful use math to exploit you, and what you can do to beat them at their own game https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1754603180104-HWF1EFHM17XXGEXOS8AF/Fake+News+cover.png NOAH GIANSIRACUSA - How Algorithms Create and Prevent Fake News Exploring the Impacts of Social Media, Deepfakes, GPT-3, and More Fully grasp the impact of the economics of contemporary journalism working in cohesion with the hidden machine learning algorithms at places such as Google, YouTube, and Facebook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1754604984249-SQP3JZJGMI4JHG5C1B4S/Noah+at+the+domican+forum.jpeg NOAH GIANSIRACUSA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1754604980926-DTYIJ4O71AZDXUM4D4FY/2HIXrhxO.jpeg NOAH GIANSIRACUSA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1754605050771-LQRTVN21YZORB66ZOGSI/NoahSubway.jpeg NOAH GIANSIRACUSA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1754605166624-7F7ZO8EYGZ4OS1KFBFRW/DR-panel-2024.png NOAH GIANSIRACUSA https://www.pandelectures.com/baldwin101 daily 0.75 2025-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/8962a8d1-4e23-4de4-be64-1579043d3500/BALDWIN+101+DRAFT-2.png James Baldwin 101 - baldwin Renewed FOR TODAY’S AUDIENCE In what would have been literary icon and civil rights activist James Baldwin’s 101st year of life, return to the basics! Rediscover the bold ways James Baldwin addressed race, identity, justice, and belonging with his family and leading experts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1742236402625-0TSTUC92PW57CLGO3CCD/Trevor+Baldwin+at+The+Town+Hall.jpg James Baldwin 101 - Invite the James Baldwin Family to Your event As the world returns to the words and legacy of James Baldwin in honor of Baldwin 101, invite a spokesperson from the James Baldwin Family to attend your event and provide a personal reflection of what it was like to know and love “Uncle Jimmy” on a deeper level. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/60541ca5-6b6e-42f7-8b27-0e1f85b4d74d/Nicholas+Buccola+February+2025.jpg James Baldwin 101 - JAMES BALDWIN & Politics Nichalos Buccola believes James Baldwin’s patriotism could be summed up in four words: Love is a battle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/b828c8b1-fd14-48ff-b0b8-3bfcd9051f49/Myisha+Cherry+April+2024.jpg James Baldwin 101 - JAMES BALDWIN ON Love Have you considered how James Baldwin’s understanding of emotion—particularly love— manifested in his life and work? Myisha Cherry has. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/aad2747e-67e4-43b3-ada7-1257174e53a0/Jamilah-Pitts-Headshot-by-Chloe-Jackman-Photography.jpg James Baldwin 101 - JAMES BALDWIN’S Liberatory FRAMEWORK FOR EDUCATION Jamilah Pitts was inspired to approach teaching differently after reading James Baldwin’s “A Talk to Teachers.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/94c7c614-9258-4bd3-989b-a01efde7e680/Davarian+L.+Baldwin+September+2024.jpg James Baldwin 101 - JAMES BALDWIN & BLACK SOCIAL MOVEMENTS Although they share a surname, they are of no direct relation! Yet, Davarian L. Baldwin resonates with James Baldwin’s courage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/54cac096-2977-40e7-b639-08b615bf783f/Nicholas+Boggs+Feature.png James Baldwin 101 - James Baldwin’s Relationships and how they shaped him Nicholas Boggs is the bestselling author of Baldwin: A Love Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/3691b8e9-33e6-4924-a859-9c3b8f67e4f4/PAVLIC+AUTHOR+%28close+up%29.jpg James Baldwin 101 - James Baldwin’s Radical Life Ed Pavlić is a scholar for James Baldwin scholars—he knows all the details! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/54be9b69-9db4-44e4-ac7e-81a0f0697444/frank_leon_roberts.jpeg.preset.600.jpeg James Baldwin 101 - James Baldwin’s Artistic Genius Frank Leon Roberts discovered rare and previously unpublished writings written by Baldwin as a teenage minister in Harlem. This was also the time that Baldwin said that he wanted to become a playwright. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/d549ebd9-df93-4d85-b029-fc1471836ff7/Baldwin+101+Magdalena.png James Baldwin 101 - James Baldwin the Global Citizen Magdalena J. Zaborowska is the author of three landmark books about James Arthur Baldwin. A literary and cultural studies scholar, she is Professor of Afroamerican and American Studies in the Departments of American Culture and Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, where she’s currently serving as Chair of the Department of American Culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/f860e66f-52bd-4e91-9084-d538bc223465/Screenshot+2025-10-01+at+6.55.12%E2%80%AFPM.png James Baldwin 101 - Do you need to go back to James Baldwin’s Beginning? This discussion guide of Go Tell It on the Mountain was carefully curated by the publishers of James Baldwin at Vintage. https://www.pandelectures.com/kathryn-hulick daily 0.75 2026-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/76fcbf32-8a4d-42a5-aa21-26613ed42197/Kathryn+Hulick+Headshot.jpg KATHRYN HULICK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1759451251720-DN9O9HEWQ0M880IKMS4A/The+UFO+Files+Book+Cover.jpg KATHRYN HULICK - THE UFO FILES: Notes on an Alien Encounter The UFO Files is not just a compelling sci-fi story or a primer on core STEM subjects—it's both at once! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1759451538502-4ROJR80XM7LR6A0CDK18/Welcome+to+the+future+book+cover.jpg KATHRYN HULICK - Welcome to the Future: Robot Friends, Fusion Energy, Pet Dinosaurs, and More! Have you ever wondered what the future may look like? In this book, you’ll explore 10 ways technology could alter our way of life. The challenge for you is to decide which changes you want for yourself and the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1759451402820-X1L48O55LR2V0ASXNUY0/Strange+but+true+book+cover.jpg KATHRYN HULICK - Strange but True: 10 of the world's greatest mysteries explained Prepare to have your mind blown! As you explore ten of the world's greatest unsolved mysteries, you'll witness a UFO encounter, search for the lost city of Atlantis, tour a haunted house, and discover the kraken's true form. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1759452426995-NOHG9T9KR6AYJ3Q0IN6D/2021-APS-DPP-Carlow-school-event-4.jpeg KATHRYN HULICK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1759452460912-4UXVRZ9D9XWAGKHYEMVH/2021-APS-DPP-Carlow-school-event-1.jpeg KATHRYN HULICK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1762204281738-S9JYY4UADQB05ZO7T4BW/Screenshot+2025-11-03+at+11.10.44%E2%80%AFAM.png KATHRYN HULICK https://www.pandelectures.com/award-winning-authors daily 0.75 2025-11-13 https://www.pandelectures.com/democracy-policy-civiclife daily 0.75 2025-12-01 https://www.pandelectures.com/ethics-equity-repair daily 0.75 2025-12-01 https://www.pandelectures.com/kid-lit-ya-reads daily 0.75 2025-12-01 https://www.pandelectures.com/health-healing-care daily 0.75 2025-11-21 https://www.pandelectures.com/climate-environment-sustainability daily 0.75 2025-11-13 https://www.pandelectures.com/cultural-heritage-speakers daily 0.75 2025-12-12 https://www.pandelectures.com/disability-and-neurodivergence daily 0.75 2025-12-15 https://www.pandelectures.com/multiracial-transracial-identities daily 0.75 2025-12-15 https://www.pandelectures.com/migration-immigration-and-refuge daily 0.75 2025-12-15 https://www.pandelectures.com/tiera-tanksley daily 0.75 2026-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/43871440-9335-4ba0-a40b-7c98276a4e0e/Tiera+Tanksley+headshot+2024.JPG TIERA TANKSLEY Photo Credit: Stella Kallnina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/67bc3c0d-138d-47a1-8425-13133b18d7a2/Sundance+2026.png TIERA TANKSLEY - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.pandelectures.com/rima-vesely-flad daily 0.75 2026-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/9e8c6a28-ffb3-4b0c-ac42-8c0ff8b6b646/Rima+Vesely-Flad.png RIMA VESELY-FLAD Photo Credit: Stella Kallnina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1774022798568-EXRUX5W4VWLVSRWV29LY/Fire+Inside+Cover.jpg RIMA VESELY-FLAD - The fire inside: the dharma of james baldwin and audre lorde by rima vesely-flad Black, queer, feminist, Buddhist: The Fire Inside casts a fresh new light on the radical literary legacies of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde A Lit Hub Independent Press Bestseller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1774022236089-Y0YE1HQ32WDDKBSSOEWV/BB+Book+Cover.jpg RIMA VESELY-FLAD - Look Inside Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation by Rima Vesely-Flad Finalist, Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Constructive-Reflective Studies, given by the American Academy of Religion Explores how Black Buddhist Teachers and Practitioners interpret Western Buddhism in unique spiritual and communal ways https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6493dab27e396274fd7a35/1774022951038-0U583DJCX746034M903D/Racial+Purity+and+Dangerous+Bodies.jpg RIMA VESELY-FLAD - Racial Purity and Dangerous Bodies Moral Pollution, Black Lives, and the Struggle for Justice Rima L. Vesely-Flad At the center of contemporary struggles over aggressive policing practices is an assumed association in U.S. culture of blackness with criminality. Rima L. 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