The Power of Knowing Your Purpose

Speaker: 
Brittany Packnett
 
28 Jan 2019
 
7:00 PM
 
Great Hall, Memorial Union

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Brittany Packnett is a leader at the intersection of culture and justice. A former teacher, non-profit executive director, and Fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics, she has been named one of TIME Magazine’s 12 New Faces of Black Leadership and honored at the 2018 BET Awards as "one of the fiercest activists of our time." Packnett serves as Teach For America’s Vice President of National Community Alliances, where she leads partnerships and civil rights work with communities of color. She is a co-founder of Campaign Zero, a policy platform to end police violence; a contributor to the Crooked Media network’s weekly news roundup on Pod Save The People, and a Video Columnist for Mic News. She also served as an appointed member of the Ferguson Commission and President Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing. The 2019 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Series Keynote

Known as @MsPackyetti on social media, Brittany Packnett has become a sought-after voice in the work of social change and empowerment. From New Zealand to London, across the United States, and at the White House, she has worked to impart lessons of empowerment, movement building, effective social impact, liberatory leadership, and empowerment for women and girls-especially those of color. Her popular TEDx talk, “It’s about time to value Women of Color in Leadership” exemplifies the passionate calls to action and personal storytelling she shares with audiences. She has been named to Marie Claire's New Guard, LinkedIn’s Next Wave, received the Peter Jennings Award for Civic Leadership and shares the number 3 spot on Politico’s 2016 50 Most Influential list. Brittany Packnett is an alum of Washington University in St. Louis, American University in Washington, and is a Pahara-Aspen Institute Education fellow. She is a proud Advisory Board Member of Rise To Run, an organization committed to recruiting grassroots, diverse, progressive women to run for office, and Erase The Hate, NBCUniversal's Emmy-Winning initiative to rid the world of discrimination. [i]Photo by Reginald Cunningham of Pure Black Photography[/I] Other events featured in the 2019 Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Series include: [b][url=https://www.lectures.iastate.edu/lecture/46566] Let Freedom Ring - Carillon Concert[/url][/b] Wednesday, January 16, 11:50 am, Central Campus A carillon concert in honor of Dr. King. Tin-Shi Tam, carillonneur. [b][url=https://www.lectures.iastate.edu/lecture/46567] Community Birthday Celebration[/url][/b] Monday, January 21, 6:00pm, Ames Middle School, 3915 Mortensen Road, Ames Celebrate with song, story and birthday cake. An Ames tradition! After sharing birthday cake, the program begins at 6:30. [b][url=https://www.lectures.iastate.edu/lecture/46560]Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Convocation[/url][/b] Thursday, January 24, 7:00 pm, Sun Room, Memorial Union Join a discussion with keynote speaker Ron Stallworth, whose extraordinary story of being a black detective who infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan is the subject of Spike Lee’s recent movie BlacKkKlansman.