TEDxUWMadison

Thank you to our speakers Kunal Khadilkar and Emilie Songolo for two very insightful and compelling TEDx Talks surrounding racial inequality. We saw a record number of attendees this year!

Our next portion of the event will begin at 2 pm TODAY. Speakers Dr. Dietram Scheufele, Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, and Dr. Hart Posen will discuss their efforts to combat the coronavirus.

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: TEDx UW Madison 2021 Conference. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. 2020 has been a very different year and we think it's time to take a moment and reflect on what we all have gone through. This event is focused on highlighting the voices of those battling the ongoing COVID-19 crisis as well as racial injustices. For the first time, we are going virtual meaning that...

Last but not least we would like to introduce M. Adams.

M Adams is a community organizer and co-executive director of Freedom Inc. Born and raised in Milwaukee, she has been in Madison since 2003.

As a q***r Black person, Adams has developed and advocated for a strong intersectional approach in numerous important venues. Adams is a leading figure in the Take Back the Land Movement, she presented before the United Nations for the Convention on Eliminating Racial Discrimination, she is a co-author of Forward from Ferguson and a paper on Black community control over the police, and she author to intersectionality theory in Why Killing Unarmed Black folks is a Q***r issue.

She plans to speak on her personal experience in advocacy against racial inequality.

Our next Speaker will be Emilie Songolo.

A native of Cameroon, Emilie is UW-Madison’s Head of International and Area Studies (IAS) for libraries. She is also Senior Librarian for African, Global and Francophone Studies at UW-Madison. Besides her commitment to equity in collections, access and research, she fosters a culture of growth, respect, dialog and trust.

Emilie’s leadership is acknowledged at UW-Madison, in the community and on the national and international arenas. A long-time member of the campus African Studies Program, she serves as a member of the program’s Steering Committee. Because of her experience in International and Area Studies, she was recently appointed to the newly-created Center for Research Libraries’ Collections and Services Policy Committee (CSPC). Her current research focuses on the acquisition, preservation and access of African ephemera and media. She has published on women in African cinema and given multiple presentations in local, national and international professional conferences. In 2014, she launched the Madison Area International Women’s Day Conference to examine and address gender disparity locally and globally. Emilie is the recipient of multiple awards including the UW-Madison Librarian of the Year (1996), the UW-Madison Outstanding Woman of Color( (2015), the Dr. Brenda Pfaehler Award of Excellence (2001), the UW-Madison Academic Staff Assembly Commendation for Outstanding Service in the Community (2009), the Woman Leader in Global Health-WGH, Midwest Chapter (2019) and the Outstanding Woman of Achievement Award - Wisconsin Women of Color Network (2017). She is a graduate of the University of Yaoundé, Cameroon, Mount Holyoke College, and UCLA where she earned her Master’s of Library and Information Science.