Diversity Speaker Series featuring Melissa Harris-Perry
Please join us for the Division of Student Affairs Spring Diversity Speaker Series featuring Melissa Harris-Perry on Tuesday, April 23, at 6:30pm, SECU Arena.
Melissa Harris-Perry is the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University. There, she is founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Center and co-director of Wake the Vote. Harris-Perry is editor-at-large of Elle.com and a contributing editor at The Nation. From 2012-2016 she hosted the television show “Melissa Harris-Perry” on weekend mornings on MSNBC and was awarded the Hillman Prize for broadcast journalism. She continues to create and direct programs with the goal of creating diverse, quality American media. Committed to diversifying American journalism and mentoring emerging public voices, Professor Harris-Perry has developed and implemented innovative mentoring efforts including the Elle.com scholars program centering the stories of women and girls of color. For more than a decade, Harris-Perry has contributed to American public life through her distinct combination of scholarly analysis and extraordinary wisdom applied to the analysis of race, gender, politics, and power.
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Tags: Center for Student Diversity, Office of Inclusion & Institutional EquityCategorised in: General, Students
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