Join us for a discussion on the Black women scholars, writers, and activists who shaped American history, and learn how they were able to pave the way for the Black women intellectuals who followed. Co-editors of “Black Women’s Intellectual Traditions: Speaking Their Minds” Kristin Waters and Carol B. Conaway are in conversation with Professor Wangui Muigai to explore nineteenth century Black women intellectuals who pioneered thought leadership and activism in North America. The book is a collection of works by leading scholars that chronicles the lives of lecturer and essayist Maria W. Stewart, abolitionist Sojourner Truth, novelist and poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, educator Anna Julia Cooper, newspaper editor Mary Ann Shadd Cary, and activist Ida B. Wells. This program is co-sponsored by the Brandeis University Press (BUP) and the Alumni of Color Network.

Carol B. Conaway, is associate professor emerita of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of New Hampshire.

Wangui Muigai, is assistant professor of African and African American Studies and History at Brandeis.

Kristen Waters, is a Women’s Studies Research Center Scholar at Brandeis, and professor of philosophy emerita at Worcester State University