The Sum of Us - Talk, Q&A, and Light Refreshments with Heather McGhee

Welcome to The Sum of Us - Talk, Q&A, and Light Refreshments with Heather McGhee! Join the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity for an engaging evening at CIC Providence where you can meet award-winning author and leader Heather McGhee. Listen to a thought-provoking talk by the author and participate in a lively Q&A session. Don't miss this chance to engage with educators, community activists, youth leaders, and philanthropy leaders in shared meaning making which is at the core of co-creating our society and is critically important to a well-functioning democracy. See you there!

This talk is provided in conjunction with the Urban Research-Based Action Network's (URBAN) conference "Traveling Together: The Many Paths of Community Engaged Research." URBAN creates physical and virtual spaces where thinkers of all stripes, academic and non-academic, can explore, debate and share lessons, with the ultimate goal of becoming a robust source of new scholarly work.

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More About Heather McGhee:

Heather designs and promotes solutions to inequality in America. Over her career in public policy, Heather has crafted legislation, testified before Congress and helped shape presidential campaign platforms. Her book The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together spent 10 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was longlisted for the National Book Award and Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. The New York Times called it, “The book that should change how progressives talk about race.” and the Chicago Tribune said, “Required reading to move the country forward...”. It is a Washington Post and TIME Magazine Must-Read Book of 2021. The paperback version was released in February 2022 and the book was adapted into a Spotify podcast by Higher Ground, the production company of Barack and Michelle Obama in June 2022. A young adult readers’ version of The Sum of Us was released by Random House Children’s in 2023 and was selected as a Best Teen and Young Adult Non-Fiction book of that year by Kirkus Reviews.

For more information, please visit www.heathermcghee.com and follow Heather on Twitter: @hmcghee and Instagram and Facebook: @HeatherCMcGhee

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