Keynote Address: Nikole Hannah-Jones

To understand how youth are navigating racial injustice, we need to look to the education system. We are thrilled to have MacArthur “Genius” Grant Fellow, National Magazine Award Winner, and New York Times Staff Writer Nikole Hannah-Jones give our keynote. Her work — such as her feature episode of This American Life, “The Problem We All Live With” — has widely been credited for reigniting a national conversation around school segregation. In her keynote, Hannah-Jones will explore the role schools play in their communities, how they’re duly affected by their surroundings — and how seeing race from the lens of education tells a whole new story of equality in America. The talk will conclude with a brief Q&A session, followed by a reception with light refreshments.

Nikole Hannah-Jones is an investigative reporter and staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, covering civil rights and racial injustice in the United States. She investigates not only the impacts of racial segregation in housing and education, but the structural action and policy that holds these inequities in place. Before joining The New York Times, she worked with ProPublica in New York, where she spent three years covering the ways in which policy upholds segregation in housing and public schools.

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