DEI Conference
Be a Revolution! – Welcome Keynote with Ijeoma Oluo
Session Description:
Keynote and Q&A with Washington’s own New York Times Best Selling author, Ijeoma Oluo. Oluo will share insights from her DEI work and her celebrated books, “So You Want to Talk About Race,” “Mediocre: the Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power,” and “Be A Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too.”
This session is brought to you in partnership with funding from WSECU, and support from the Interagency Committee of State Employed Women (ICSEW) and the statewide Business Resource Group (BRG) book club.
Objectives and Key Takeaways:
- How to have conversations about race.
- Ways that people are creating revolutions.
Audience:
Ways to watch:
Live stream on June 5, 2024
Recording available for replay July 1 through August 31
Guest Speakers
Ijeoma Oluo
Writer, Speaker and Internet Yeller
Ijeoma Oluo (ee-joh-mah oh-loo-oh) is a Seattle-based Writer, Speaker and Internet Yeller. Her work on social issues such as race and gender has been published in The Guardian, Esquire, Washington Post, ELLE Magazine, New York Times, NBC News and more. She has been featured on The Daily Show, All Things Considered, BBC News, and more. Her #1 NYT bestselling first book, So You Want To Talk About Race, was released January 2018 with Seal Press. Her Second book, MEDIOCRE: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, was published December 2020 with Seal Press and her upcoming book, Be A Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World - and How You Can Too, will be released January 2024 with Harper One. Ijeoma was named one of the Most Influential People in Seattle by Seattle Magazine, one of the 50 Most Influential Women in Seattle by Seattle Met, one of The Root's 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2017 & 2018, and is the recipient of the Feminist Humanist Award 2018 by the American Humanist Association, the Harvard Humanist of the year 2020, the Media Justice Award by the Gender Justice League, and the 2018 Aubrey Davis Visionary Leadership Award by the Equal Opportunity Institute.
