Organizing for Freedom: Then and Now with Hollis Watkins

Date: 

Wednesday, September 27, 2017, 4:15pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Ash Center Foyer, Suite 200N, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA

The Ash Center invites you to a discussion with Hollis Watkins, Founder and President of Southern Echo, SNCC Veteran, Freedom Singer, and author of Brother Hollis: The Sankofa of a Movement Man. Watkins will be joined by Eric Leslie, MC-MPA 14, Founder/Lead Organizer of Union Capital Boston. The talk with be moderated by Marshall Ganz, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School. 

The event is an installment of the Ash Center's Race and American Politics Series. Race and American Politics is a multidisciplinary series of seminars and roundtable conversations led by Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Refreshments will be provided.