Dr. Salamishah Tillet is one of the foremost feminist activists and academics of her generation. She has appeared on the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, and NPR and written for The Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, The Nation and The Root. In 2003, Salamishah and her sister, Scheherazade Tillet, co-founded A Long Walk Home, Inc., a non-profit that uses art therapy and the visual and performing arts to end violence against girls and women. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of English, Africana and Gender, Sexuality and Women Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

This keynote is being delivered as part of the Beyond the Brochures: Interrogating the Ivory Tower student symposium. The keynote lecture is FREE and OPEN to the public.