Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's one of the foremost historians in the world and leading antiracist scholars. His books have been translated into multiple languages and republished throughout the Americas, Africa, Europe, and Asia. Dr. Kendi is a professor of history and the founding director of the Howard University Institute for Advanced Study, an interdisciplinary research enterprise examining global racism. He's the author of many highly acclaimed bestsellers, including Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. He's the author of the international bestseller, How to Be an Antiracist, and TIME magazine named Dr. Kendi one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the "Genius Grant."

Included in the admission price, each attendee will receive a copy of Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age ($35 value).