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Media Representation of Women of Color: An Open Conversation w/ Ijeoma Oluo
April 30, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
$15
Join us for an evening of open conversation on the representation of women of color in the media with author of New York Times Best-Seller, So You Want to Talk About Race, and Editor-At-Large of The Establishment, Ijeoma Oluo.
Ijeoma Oluo is a Seattle-based writer, speaker, and Internet Yeller. She’s the author of the New York Times Best-Seller So You Want to Talk about Race, published in January by Seal Press.
Named one of the The Root’s 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2017, one of the Most Influential People in Seattle by Seattle Magazine, one of the 50 Most Influential Women in Seattle by Seattle Met, and winner of the of the 2018 Feminist Humanist Award by the American Humanist Society, Oluo’s work focuses primarily on issues of race and identity, feminism, social and mental health, social justice, the arts, and personal essay. Her writing has been featured in The Washington Post, NBC News, Elle Magazine, TIME, The Stranger, and the Guardian, among other outlets.
The conversation will be moderated by award-winning inclusion strategist and author, Ruchika Tulshyan.
Ruchika is an award-winning inclusion strategist and keynote speaker. Through her company Candour, she advises companies on diversity & inclusion strategy and communications.
Ruchika writes regularly on leadership and diversity for publications such as Harvard Business Review, Forbes and The Seattle Times. Her articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Time and Bloomberg. Ruchika serves on the founding editorial team of women-run-and-funded media website, The Establishment. She is also adjunct faculty in the Communication Department at Seattle University.
She holds degrees from the London School of Economics and Columbia University. She is alumni of the Young American Leaders Program at Harvard Business School. She also serves on the Seattle Women’s Commission.
