Urban Consulate: An Evening with Jason Reynolds & Tressie McMillan Cottom

Join Urban Consulate at The Garden Theater in Detroit for An Evening with Jason Reynolds and Tressie McMillan Cottom hosted by Orlando P. Bailey. This live conversation is part of the series Daring Ideas for the Future, made possible thanks to support from The Kresge Foundation.

• Free & open to the public. All ages welcome. Advance registration required.
• Tickets available online only. Limited seating available.
• Doors open 6:30pm; Program begins 7pm
• This is a live event only; no livestream
• Book sales & signing by Source Booksellers

ABOUT OUR GUESTS

Jason Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and MacArthur Fellow, honored with numerous awards including the Newbery, Printz, Coretta Scott King, NAACP Image, and Kirkus Awards. He served as the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature from 2020–2022 and is a two-time National Book Award finalist. Some of his acclaimed works include Look Both Ways, Ain’t Burned All the Bright (recipient of the Caldecott Honor), the Track series, Miles Morales Suspended, Stamped, Twenty-Four Seconds from Now..., and Long Way Down, which received a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. His debut picture book, There Was a Party for Langston, won a Caldecott Honor and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor. He currently lives in Washington, DC.

Tressie McMillan Cottom is a 2020 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, a New York Times contributing opinion writer, and a professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. A trenchant cultural critic, celebrated sociologist, and award-winning writer, Tressie McMillan Cottom is known for rearranging your brain in the span of a carefully-turned phrase. Her first book, Lower Ed, captures the zeitgeist on how profit, and debt, moved from the margins of higher education to bankrupt the very heart of American meritocracy. Her 2019 collection of essays, Thick, was a National Book Award finalist that reimagines the modern essay form. Careful and poetic, Dr. Cottom explores the everyday culture of big ideas like racism, sexism, inequality, and oppression by giving us the language to live better lives.

ABOUT THE HOSTS

Urban Consulate brings people together to share ideas for building more just and equitable communities. We believe that sharing space for honest dialogue and the exchange of knowledge is necessary to transform ourselves, our communities, and our world. To learn more, visit UrbanConsulate.com.

The Kresge Foundation is a private, national foundation that works to expand equity and opportunities in America's cities through grantmaking and social investing in arts and culture, education, environment, health, human services and community development, nationally and in Detroit, Memphis, New Orleans and Fresno. To learn more, visit Kresge.org.