Wake Forest University Face To Face Speaker Forum: Isabel Wilkerson

WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY

SPEAKER FORUM

April 14, 2021 at 7:30 p.m.

Isabel Wilkerson Bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize and National Humanities Award winner

WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY

PROGRAM

SPEAKER FORUM

Wake Forest University launched the Face to Face Speaker Forum in spring 2020. The community-facing series was created to bring world-renowned, influential voices to Winston-Salem to discuss topics in a variety of areas including politics, arts and culture, business and social justice. The Face to Face Speaker Forum was set to launch in person in the fall of 2020. The in-person programming originally scheduled for the inaugural season has been rescheduled for the 2021-2022 academic year due to the pandemic. Season subscriptions to all three in-person keynote events may be purchased online through the Face to Face Speaker Forum website. Single event ticket sales for in-person events will be available closer to each event, subject to availability.

Welcome to the Face to Face Speaker Forum!

Thank you for joining us for this virtual livestreamed event featuring Isabel Wilkerson. While we wish we could truly be face-to-face with you, we are so glad to have the chance to gather in this virtual format.

The program will begin at 7:30 p.m. EDT.

Welcome from DR. NATHAN O. HATCH President, Wake Forest University

A message from SUE HENDERSON Executive Director, Face to Face Speaker Forum

Introduction and Welcome from DR. JONATHAN LEE WALTON Dean of the School of Divinity and Wait Chapel

Presentation from ISABEL WILKERSON Moderated Q&A with ISABEL WILKERSON AND DEAN WALTON Closing remarks from SUE HENDERSON Executive Director, Face to Face Speaker Forum

PROGRAM

ORDER OF EVENTS

P RI N CI PAL SERI ES SP O N S O R S

ROSE AND TRAVIS COLLINS

ALLEGACY CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP & CHARACTER

G OL D SEASON SP ON S O R

SPONSORS

P REM I UM K EY N OTE SP O N S O R S

P RE- EV EN T SP ON S O R

PATTY AND MALCOLM BROWN

COM M UN I TY EN G AG EM EN T S PO N S O R

B EN EFACTOR L EV EL SP O N S O R

MED I A SP ON SORS AN D COM M U N I T Y PA RT N E R S

TM

Melanie Holton

Wendy Brenner

Beth Hopkins

Todd Chase

Janice Howerton

Kennedy Cogan

Joia Johnson

Mark Conger

Borwin Jung

Robyn Earthman

Leigh Koman

Caleb Fort

Maria Oberlander

Shon Gilmore

Valerie Pasche

Mike Grace, Jr.

Anna Reilly

John Hoemann

Claire Tuttle

Anna Ball Hodge

Danielle Williams

Special thanks to Dr. Briana Wong, professor at Wake Forest University, for her content guidance for tonight’s event.

BOARD OF ADVISORS

Lynn Anthony

KEYNOTE SOCIETY

Monica Aaron

Robyn and Dan Earthman

Lynn and Dan Anthony

Lynn and Barry Eisenberg

Marie and Guy Arcuri

Kristy Farewell

Becca Atchison

Elizabeth and Michael Felsen

Cassandra and Jerry Baker

Arlene Ferebee

Pam and William Ball

Ellie and Stuart Fine

Donna Boswell

Ragan and Dara Folan

Felice and Richard Brenner

Caleb Fort

Wendy and Mike Brenner

Julie Freischlag and

Candice Brown Patty and Malcolm Brown Chareba Buckhannon Lisa and Alan Caldwell Nancy and Thomas Cannon Becca and Todd Chase Bridget Chisholm Claire and Hudnall Christopher Kay Clark Kennedy and John Cogan Susan and Mark Conger Holly Coward and R. Philip Heine Mary and Dick Dean Marian and Jim Douglas Annamarie D’Souza Randy Eaddy

Philip Roethle Ginger and Barry Gallagher Deborah and Tim Gardner Shon and Chris Gilmore Mike Grace Jr. Susan and James Gordon Ann Holton Guill Nadine and Mark Hall Debbie and Chuck Harr Doug Henderson Anna Ball Hodge Janice and Richard Howerton Ursula Henninger and Jim Stroupe John Hoemann and Howard Upchurch Melanie and Mark Holton

Beth Hopkins

Valerie and Boris Pasche

Shaida Horner and

Allison Perkins

Vance L. Horner II Jerri Irby Dell and Frank James Page and Todd Johnson

Ann Johnston Brigitte and Borwin Jung Liz and Stan Kelly Leigh and Andy Koman Betsy Krug Chris Leak Lauren and David Leppert Jeff Lindsay and Terry Robertson Joe Logan Jennifer Martin Melinda and John McConnell Amy McMichael and Ralph Thomas Shannon Meares Maria and Ricardo Oberlander Pamela A. Oliver and J. Mark Oliver

Kathy Poehling and Tim Peters Karen and Thomas Pranikoff Emily Ragsdale Anne Rainey Rokahr Katie and Rick Rauck Anna Reilly and Matt Cullinan Andy Schneider Robert Simon Kim and Stuart Stogner Brooke Johnson Suiter Wynn Tanner and Mike Robinson Gwynne and Dan Taylor Claire and Randall Tuttle Barbara and John Vining Liana and Myles Thompson Julie Townsend David Turner Marybeth and McLain Wallace Connie M. Ward Velma Watts

Dr. Robert B. Outland, III

Danielle and Kevin Williams

Ellen and Bill Parsley

Janie and J.D. Wilson

KEYNOTE SOCIETY

Joia Johnson

Laura Phillips and Andrew Jones

Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, is the author of the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestsellers The Warmth of Other Suns, and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Caste: The Origins of our Discontents was published in August 2020 to critical acclaim and became a

BIOGRAPHIES

Number 1 New York Times bestseller.

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.”

Jonathan Lee Walton, Jonathan Lee Walton was named Dean of Wake Forest University School of Divinity, Presidential Chair in Religion and Society, and Dean of Wait Chapel in 2019. Prior to joining Wake Forest University, he was the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and the Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church of Harvard University. Dean Walton is a social ethicist whose scholarship focuses on evangelical Christianity and its relationship to mass media and political culture. His first book, Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism (NYU Press, 2009), examines the theological and political traditions of African American religious broadcasters.

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