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LANGSTON Presents: Ijeoma Oluo in conversation with Megan Rapinoe
December 1, 2020 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm PST
Presented in partnership with Hachette Books and Elliott Bay Book Company.
LANGSTON Presents | 1 December 2020, 7:30 PM PST
Ijeoma Oluo in conversation with Megan Rapinoe
Our Panelists:
Two-time World Cup Champion and co-captain of the US Women’s National Team, Megan Rapinoe is a fan favorite and one of the team’s most technical players. A vocal leader on and off the pitch, Megan helped lead the USWNT to the 2019 Women’s World Cup Championship scoring some of the biggest goals of the tournament. Megan took home the tournament’s two top honors – the Golden Boot for top scorer, and the Golden Ball for the best player in the tournament. Megan is an advocate for equality for all and lends her voice to fight for social justice across all spectrums.
Ijeoma Oluo is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race and the forthcoming Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America. Her work on race has been featured in the New York Times and the Washington Post, among many others. She has twice been named to the Root 100, and she received the 2018 Feminist Humanist Award and the 2020 Harvard Humanist of the Year Award from the American Humanist Association. She lives in Seattle, Washington.