Description
Join us for an engaging workshop exploring the power of writing as a tool for resistance. This session will examine how writers have historically and continue to use their words to challenge authority, highlight injustices, and resist oppressive systems. We’ll delve into how writing can raise awareness, preserve truth, empower communities, and redefine identities. Through discussions and examples from literature, journalism, and contemporary activism, we will explore how writing serves as a vehicle for social change. Whether you’re a seasoned writer or just beginning, this workshop will inspire you to see the written word as a force for resistance.
Rita Omokha-Presenter Bio:
Rita Omokha is an award-winning Nigerian American journalist. Her writing on politics, race, and vulnerable communities has been featured on CNN and in Cosmopolitan, The Daily Beast, Elle, Glamour, The Guardian, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, WIRED, and elsewhere. She’s an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she graduated at the top of the 2020 class, receiving some of the institution’s highest awards, including the Pulitzer Prize Traveling Fellowship. She’s the author of Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America. She lives in Manhattan.
