February 21, 2024: P&P Keynote Speaker Tonight: Linda Sarsour
By The 2024 Power and Privilege Symposium Executive Team and Tebraie Banda-Johns, Director of the Intercultural Center
The 2024 Power & Privilege (P&P) Symposium is honored to welcome activist, community organizer and author Linda Sarsour to deliver the P&P keynote address on Wednesday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. in the Reid Campus Center Young Ballroom.
Due to limited seating at the keynote address, please RSVP in advance. The event will not be livestreamed, but it will be recorded and available to view after the event.
Portrait of Linda Sarsour wearing a red and black headscarf.
Linda Sarsour is one of the country’s leading voices in the fight for racial, economic, gender and social justice. The Brooklyn-born Palestinian Muslim American community organizer and mother of three is globally recognized for her award-winning intersectional work on key civil rights topics, including the impact of domestic policies that target Arab and Muslim American communities, mass incarceration and criminal justice, Middle East affairs, immigration policy and voter registration.
P&P Day is Thursday, Feb. 22. All are invited to attend the different sessions throughout the day led by members of the Whitman community! To begin planning your participation, check out the P&P schedule page. Some of the sessions will be available to watch live, at live.whitman.edu.