May 2009: Men & Feminism: New Alliances & New Directions

On May 26, 2009 "Rebecca Walker: "Men & Feminism": New Alliances & New Directions"

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Rebecca Walker is an award-winning author, editor, speaker, and cultural commentator. She graduated cum laude from Yale University. Time Magazine named her one of the fifty most influential American leaders of her generation for her fresh approach to identity politics, and belief that lasting change begins within.

She co-founded the Third Wave Foundation, a non-profit that works through grant-making, leadership development, and philanthropic advocacy to support young women of all backgrounds, aged 15 to 30, working towards gender, racial, economic, and social justice.

Rebecca Walker is also the author of the several important books including: Third Wave primer To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism, about the relevance of feminism to generations X and Y; Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self; What Makes a Man: 22 Writers Imagine The Future, a book about new ways of being a man; Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence, a memoir about motherhood, and One Big Happy Family: 18 Writers Talks About Polyamory, Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, Househusbandry, Single Motherhood and Other Realities of Truly Modern Love, a rocking, "cage-rattling" collection about courageous family configurations is out now from Riverhead Books.

She has spoken at numerous universities and high schools and is the recipient of numerous awards, such as: The National Council of Teachers of English, RuterDam Stockholm, the Black Magic Woman Festival in Amsterdam, Hewitt and Associates, and the Ministries of Culture and Gender of Estonia, at the first-ever Conference on Masculinity in the Baltics, which was completely mind-blowing.