Virtual Talk: NYT Best-Selling Author, Economist on National Day of Racial Healing
Join us for a talk by Heather McGhee, New York Times best-selling author and one of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers.
In her book The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, McGhee traveled across the United States aiming to uncover the cause of the nation's economic troubles:
"Heather McGhee’s specialty is the American economy—and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. From the financial crisis of 2008 to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a root problem: racism in our politics and policymaking. But not just in the most obvious indignities for people of color. Racism has costs for white people, too. It is the common denominator of our most vexing public problems, the core dysfunction of our democracy and constitutive of the spiritual and moral crises that grip us all. But how did this happen? And is there a way out?"
In this virtual lecture, McGhee will share what she learned and insights on how we can move forward as a unified people.
The Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion & Student Transitions will be hosting a watch party for the Utica University community in the Francis A. Wilcox Intercultural and Student Organization Center, or you can click here to register online to stream the talk on your own.
This event is sponsored by the Central New York Community Foundation, the Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region, the Community Foundation of Rochester, and the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo.
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