A popular blogger and widely traveled speaker on racial justice and reconciliation, Austin Channing Brown will be doing a reading based on her upcoming book about the burdens her black body carries by virtue of living and working in spaces characterized by whiteness. Her reading will be followed by a conversation about the authors—Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ntozake Shange, and Audre Lorde, among others—whose work has been the lifeblood for her own writing.

AUSTIN CHANNING BROWN is a speaker and writer advocating for justice and racial reconciliation. A graduate of North Park University and Marygrove College with a master's degree in social justice, Austin currently serves as a resident director and multicultural liaison at Calvin College. Connect with Austin on Twitter @AustinChanning and on her website at http://austinchanning.com/.

This series is presented in partnership with:

African & African Diaspora Studies at Calvin College

Ambrose @ WMCAT

The Asian Studies Program at Calvin College

Brazos Press

The Calvin Center for Community Engagement & Global Learning

The Calvin College Campus Store

The Calvin College Associate Dean for Diversity & Inclusion

The Calvin College History Department

The Calvin College Office of the Provost

The Calvin College Department of Sociology & Social Work Heyns Fund

The Calvin College Student Life Division

The Calvin Theater Company

The Christian Reformed Church’s Office of Social Justice

Event and Tech Services at Calvin College

The Paul B. Henry Institute at Calvin College

Schuler Books and Music