https://www.pacificu.edu/calendar/2022-your-face-lecture
4 p.m. PST | Thursday, April 7, 2022
Online
Pacific University is proud to present Walidah Imarisha in the 16th annual In Your Face Lecture: "Abolitionist Futures: Imagining Beyond Police and Prisons."
Imarisha is an educator and a writer. She is the co-editor of two anthologies, Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements and Another World is Possible. Imarisha is the author of Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison and Redemption, which won a 2017 Oregon Book Award, and the poetry collection Scars/Stars.
She spent six years with Oregon Humanities’ Conversation Project as a public scholar facilitating programs across the state about Oregon Black history and alternatives to incarceration.
In 2015, she received a Tiptree Fellowship for her science fiction writing. Imarisha currently teaches in Portland State University’s Black Studies Department and is PSU’s Center for Black Studies director. In the past, she has taught at Stanford University, Oregon State University, and Pacific Northwest College of the Arts.
Pacific University’s annual In Your Face Lecture, presented by the School of Social Sciences’ Politics & Government Department, gives provocative thinkers a space to provide “outside the box” ideas that challenge conventional thinking.
Registration required for this event.