Janet Mock
Writer, TV Host, and Advocate
Intersectional & Inclusive: A Conversation with Janet Mock
Janet Mock is a writer, TV host, and advocate whose work has appeared in Marie Claire, The New Yorker, the New York Times and Lenny. In 2014, she released Redefining Realness, her path-clearing New York Times bestseller about her journey as a trans teenager. bell hooks called Janet’s memoir, “a life map for transformation” and Melissa Harris Perry said, “You will be changed by this book.”
NOTE: Ms. Mock will be interviewed by Bailey Williams, a senior at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, who will receive a B.S. in Video-Broadcast Journalism, with a double major in Gender & Sexuality Studies. Since January 2017, Ms. Williams has worked as a reporter for WBOY-TV in Clarksburg, WV, and has previously works at Newsday in New York, as a video editor at The Daily Northwestern, and as a business and politics reporter for Medill News Service in Washington, DC.
Event Sponsors
- Baker Demonstration School
- Compass Health Center
- Evanston Township HS Alumni Foundation
- Evanston Township High School D202
- Lefkofsky Family Foundation
- Northwestern University’s Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing
- Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism
- Northwestern University’s Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion
- Northwestern University Office of Neighborhood and Community Relations
- YWCA Evanston/North Shore
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The Opposite of Happiness: How Bad Feelings Make and Break Us
George Loewenstein, Ph.D.
Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Economics and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University
Eli Finkel, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology and of Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
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Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lerone A. Martin, Ph.D.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial Professor in Religious Studies and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University
Evanston Township High School Auditorium
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American Hagwon: An Evening with Min Jin Lee
Min Jin Lee
Bestselling author of "Free Food for Millionaires" and "Pachinko"
Megan Bang, Ph.D.
James E. Johnson Professor of the Learning Sciences at Northwestern University's School of Education and Social Policy
Evanston Township High School Auditorium
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