‘A Catalyst for Humanity’: A Conversation with Isabel Wilkerson

What are the invisible social strata that define and divide America? How does this unseen ranking underlie racism? And how do caste dynamics systematically lessen the value of Black lives? Join Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson, author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, and esteemed social scientist David Williams for a conversation about embedded power inequities–and their cost to us all. Moderated by CNN anchor, Don Lemon.

Michelle A. Williams, Dean of the Faculty at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is pleased to present

A Conversation with Isabel Wilkerson Author, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Moderated by Don Lemon, Anchor, “CNN Tonight with Don Lemon”

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Presented with the Nieman Foundation and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthHosted by The Forum at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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WELCOME REMARKS

Michelle A. Williams, Dean of the Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Angelopoulos Professor in Public Health and International Development, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School (@HarvardChanDean)

Ann Marie Lipinski, Curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University (@AMLwhere)

MODERATOR

Don Lemon, Anchor, “CNN Tonight with Don Lemon” (@donlemon)

FEATURING

Isabel Wilkerson, Author and Historian (@Isabelwilkerson)

David Williams, Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health and Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (@D_R_Williams1)

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