Black Women in Leadership Across the Diaspora

Our featured speaker, Hyacinth Miller, will be give a talk that will provide a survey of some of the Black women in leadership positions across the globe, how they got there, some of the challenges they have faced, and why it is imperative that the next generation become more involved.

Hyacinth Miller is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences - Rutgers Newark's Departments of Africana Studies and Political Science. She has also worked as a Lecturer in the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Her research focuses on Black women and politics, Caribbean immigrants in the Diaspora, immigrant political incorporation, and comparative politics.

This event is in collaboration with the Lee Hagan Africana Studies Center, Leadership Living Learning Community & Residence Life.