Vision & Justice Convening

2019, Associate Producer, Research Assistant

"Vision & Justice" was a two-day creative convening that examined the role of the arts in understanding the nexus of art, race, and justice.

The public event, conceived by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, founder of Vision & Justice, emerged out of the award-winning Vision & Justice issue of Aperture she guest edited.  

Featured speakers and events included, a performance by Carrie Mae Weems, a conversation about When They See Us, the miniseries by Ava DuVernay and Bradford Young with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and a performance by Wynton Marsalis. Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, who discovered the Flint, Michigan water crisis, exchanged ideas with Chelsea Clinton and LaToya Ruby Frazier, who used her camera to highlight the injustice on the ground. 

The event was hosted by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, with additional major funding from the Ford Foundation, and was cosponsored by the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, the Harvard Art Museums, and the American Repertory Theater, with additional support from the Lambent Foundation for the civic curriculum publication.