Sunday, November 11, 2018 - 9:00am to 10:15am

Ijeoma Oluo is an American writer who authored So You Want to Talk About Race and has written for several newspapers as well as online news platforms. Oluo has written for The Guardian, Jezebel, The Stranger, Medium and The Establishment, where she is also an editor-at-large. Born in Denton, Texas and based in Seattle, Washington, in 2015 Oluo was named one of the most influential people in Seattle, and in 2018, she was named one of the 50 most influential women in Seattle. Her writing covers misogynoir, intersectionality, online harassment, the Black Lives Matter movement, race, economics, parenting, feminism and social justice. Many of her articles have gone viral, specifically because of the importance of her critiques of race and the invisibility of black women's voices in the United States, as exemplified in the coverage of her interview with Rachel Dolezal.