Speaker Series: Naomi Wolf, feminist & author

Description

Naomi Wolf, one of the world’s most influential feminists and bestselling author of The Beauty Myth, will discuss how we are in a time of renaissance for feminism, a movement and set of ideas that used to be seen as unpopular or marginal. Feminism is newly vibrant and embraced again but in completely fresh and whole different ways by millennials, and they are making this movement their own. This generation has a whole new agenda and landscape in which they are fighting for equality. What should they know, keep, and reject from the past? How can they keep their movement and energy from being sidelined into more superficial issues, as the basic fights remain ahead?

A charismatic personality with a passion for activism, Wolf teaches public presentation to Rhodes Scholars and was a visiting lecturer at Stony Brook University. Dr. Wolf recently completed a doctoral program on the history of discrimination law at Oxford University, where she was a research fellow at the Rothermere American Institute.

Wolf has written eight bestselling works of nonfiction, including Give Me Liberty, which includes effective tools for citizens to promote civic engagement and create sustainable democracy, and the iTunes bestseller, Vagina: A New Biography. The End of America, her New York Times bestseller, is a call to preserve liberty and democracy, winning the 2008 Nautilus Silver Award for social change and activism. The documentary version of End of America has been viewed over two million times online.

Wolf also writes columns and blog posts for Project Syndicate, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Wall St. Journal. Dr. Wolf has also appeared on Meet the Press and The Colbert Report. She is the co-founder of The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership and The American Freedom Campaign.

The presentation will conclude with a Q&A period. A reception and book signing (with books available for purchase) will immediately follow the presentation.