Name: A Conversation with Isabel Wilkerson
Start: 2024-09-12T19:30:00-07:00
End: 2024-09-12T19:30:00-07:00
Location: The Great Hall

A Conversation with Isabel Wilkerson

With Marcus Harrison Green

Date:: Thursday, September 12
Time:: 7:30 pm PDT
Cost:: Free - $200

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Venue

: The Great Hall
: 1119 Eighth Avenue (enter on Eighth Avenue)
Seattle, 98101 United States + Google Map

Organizer

: Homestead Community Land Trust
Phone: (206)-323-1227
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If you have questions about this event, please contact Homestead Community Land Trust directly at or leah@homesteadclt.org.

Banner image for 'A Conversation with Isabel Wilkerson' featuring a portrait of Isabel Wilkerson on the right. She is the Pulitzer prize winning author of New York Times bestsellers "The Warmth of Other Suns" and "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents." The event is on September 12 at Town Hall Seattle, 7:30 PM, hosted by Marcus Harrison Green, benefiting Homestead Community Land Trust. Includes a small photo of Marcus Harrison Green in bottom right corner.

Rentals

Isabel Wilkerson is the author of the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestsellers The Warmth of Other Suns, and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Proceeds will support Homestead’s work to create housing justice in King County. Wilkerson won the Pulitzer Prize for her deeply humane narrative writing while serving as Chicago Bureau Chief of The New York Times in 1994, making her the first black woman in the history of American journalism to win a Pulitzer Prize and the first African American to win for individual reporting. In 2016, President Barack Obama awarded Wilkerson the National Humanities Medal for “championing the stories of an unsung history.”

Ms. Wilkerson will join Marcus Harrison Green, publisher of the South Seattle Emerald and columnist for the Seattle Times, in a thought-provoking discussion about these critical issues.

This event is part of a series exploring the disparities in homeownership access and the resilient people and work to change these disparities. Kathleen Hosfeld, our CEO and Executive Director, emphasizes, “Ms. Wilkerson’s work opens our awareness to the social ‘operating system’ based on hierarchy, largely undetected in our culture. This conversation will bring these themes home to our communities and discuss the experiences of those who have sought to overcome and rewrite the operating system.”

Presented by Homestead Community Land Trust.