As part of the Annual Lecture Series on African Americans, Black Diaspora, and Global Black Lives, the College of Arts and Sciences with the Africana Studies and Gender & Women's Studies Departments welcome Taitu Heron to URI.

In this event, Taitu Heron will give a public lecture on the challenges in the Caribbean incorporating feminist frameworks into gender-oriented activist spaces. She will give particular attention to cases where people are dealing with food insecurity, physical safety, shelter, childcare, and economic survival. Her talk will also address the cultural differences between LGBTQIA communiites in the Anglophone Caribbean and the United States.

A roundtable discussion with Dr. Preity Kumar, Dr. Karen Sweeting, and Dr. Tashal Brown will follow the public lecture. Dr. Catherine John will moderate. 

Taitu Heron is a Caribbean scholar, development specialist, activist, and performance poet. She is currently the Head of the Women and Development Unit at the University of West Indies, Open Campus, Cave Hill, Barbados.