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REBECCA WALKER TO DISCUSS BEING "BLACK, WHITE AND JEWISH: GROWING UP MULTIRACIAL IN AMERICA" SEPTEMBER 20
SEPTEMBER 11, 2001--Noted author Rebecca Walker will discuss her newest memoir, Black, White and Jewish: Growing Up Multiracial in America, on Thursday, September 20, at 8 p.m. in Finney Chapel in a free, public talk.
Considered one of the most audible voices in today's young women's movement, Walker has been named one of Time magazine's 50 future leaders of America. Her first book, To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism, explores young women's struggle to reclaim and redefine feminism and has become a standard text for women's courses across America.
Walker is a 1992 cum laude graduate of Yale University and has devoted much of her life to cultivating young women's leadership and activism. Walker founded the Third Wave Direct Action Corporation, a national nonprofit organization that initiated an historic emergency youth drive, which registered over 20,000 new voters in inner cities across the United States. In 1998, she co-founded the Third Wave Foundation, the only national, activist philanthropic organization for young women between the ages of 15 and 30.
Walker's talk is sponsored by the Hewlett Committee.
Media Contact: Scott Wargo
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