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Converse Hall, Cole Assembly Room

The Multicultural Resource Center and the Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion are excited to welcome activist and attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong to campus for the MLK Symposium Keynote.

Nekima Levy Armstrong is an award-winning civil rights attorney, activist and racial justice advocate. She previously served as professor of law at the University of St. Thomas Law School for 13 years, where she founded and directed the Community Justice Project, an award-winning civil rights legal clinic.

Nekima is the executive director of the Wayfinder Foundation, which provides support for women of color activists and organizers around the country. Nekima is also the founder of the Racial Justice Network, a grassroots organization that organizes and leads protests and demonstrations, provides community outreach and resources, and challenges injustices within systems that impact Black people and other people of color in Minneapolis and the Twin Cities.

Contact Info

Lupita Mendez
(413) 542-5763
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