Anti-Racism Speaker Series: Andra Gillespie

Andra Gillespie
Friday, November 6, 6 p.m.
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Andra Gillespie is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the James Weldon Johnson Institute at Emory University. She teaches classes on political participation, experimental methods, race and elections. She is also the author of The New Black Politician: Cory Booker, Newark and Post-Racial America and is the editor of and a contributor to Whose Black Politics? Cases in Post-Racial Black Leadership.

The Urban Section of the American Political Science Association honored her as a 2009 Norton Long Fellow. She was a 2009-2010 Ford Foundation Diversity Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University and in 2011-2012, she served as a Martin Luther King Visiting Scholar in the Political Science Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has appeared on local ABC, NBC, Fox, CBS and PBS affiliates as well as CNN, NPR and FamilyNet.