Speaker: Julianne Malveaux, National Commentator and Author

Julianne Malveaux, labor economist, author, and commentator, who has shared her candid views on television stations ranging from PBS to MSNBC to Fox News, will speak at the 31th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration at University of Puget Sound.

Described by author and activist Cornel West as “the most iconoclastic public intellectual in the country,” Malveaux embraces views on race, culture, gender, and economics that are helping shape public opinion in 21st-century America. Her latest book is Are We Better Off? Race, Obama and Public Policy (2016).

Everyone is welcome to the free evening that will honor the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr., America’s Nobel Prize-winning 1960s civil rights leader.