We've *Been* Here: Women of Color in the 2020 Elections and Beyond

We've *Been* Here: Women of Color in the 2020 Elections and Beyond

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By Athena Center for Leadership at Barnard College

Date and time

Wednesday, January 27, 2021 · 2:30 - 3:30pm PST

Location

Online

About this event

We've Been Here: Women of Color in the 2020 Elections and Beyond

Women of color played a prominent role in the 2020 elections and have become a major force in shaping the political landscape. Award-winning journalist and host of the podcast Our Body Politic, Farai Chideya joins Umbreen Bhatti '00, Director of the Athena Center, to discuss how women of color have impacted the political events of today and how they are shaping where it is headed.

Farai Chideya is a reporter, author, and news analyst who has covered six presidential elections and worked both behind the scenes and in public forums to tackle questions on how the media serves people of all classes, race, national backgrounds, geography, and gender. She is a Distinguished Fellow at Athena and currently a Program Officer on the Ford Foundation’s Creativity and Free Expression team.

Photo credit: Simon Luethi

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Athena Center for Leadership at Barnard College

The world is full of vexing challenges.

A warming planet, hunger, mis- and disinformation, all of the -isms that keep people from reaching their full potential, just to name a few.

These challenges require creative solutions, but it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. What can we do? Where do we even start?

At the Athena Center for Leadership, we see leaders as, at their core, problem-solvers — and our role as providing Barnard students a wide range of ways to practice solving problems at all scales, all experience-based and available to students from the day they set foot on our campus.

Athena is home to Barnard students who see opportunities in challenges and seize them to build a better world, together — because these are the leaders we need now.

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