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Conversations across the Diaspora, hosted by Sarah Ladipo Manyika‍

A new interactive series brings you eclectic conversations from across the African diaspora. Join author and host Sarah Ladipo Manyika for talks with some of the most exciting voices from Berlin to Harare, from Tamale to London and New York and everywhere in between. We’ll introduce you to all sorts of folks—some you will know, others you may never have heard of, but never the usual suspects talking about the usual topics.

We’ll be speaking with everyone from actors to poets, scholars, athletes, entrepreneurs, architects, artists and many more. Come join us!

This month author and host Sarah Ladipo Manyika in conversation with Actor & Playwright Anna Deavere Smith. After you register you will receive information to join via zoom on September 11th at 12 noon (Pacific Daylight Time) / 8pm (UK).

‍Anna Deavere Smith is an actress, playwright, teacher, and author. She is credited with having created a new form of theater. Smith's work combines the journalistic technique of interviewing her subjects with the art of interpreting their words through performance. Smith has created over fifteen one-person shows based on hundreds of interviews.

Her most recent play and film, Notes from the Field, looks at the vulnerability of youth, inequality, the criminal justice system, and contemporary activism. Smith has appeared on television series including For the People, Black-ish, Nurse Jackie, and The West Wing. Additional film work includes The American President, Philadelphia, RENT, and Rachel Getting Married.

President Obama awarded Smith the National Humanities Medal in 2013. Additional honors include the prestigious MacArthur Award, The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize for achievement in the arts, the George Polk Career Award in Journalism, the Dean’s Medal from the Stanford University Medical School, two Tony nominations and several honorary degrees. She was runner up for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. In 2019, she was inducted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

She is a University Professor at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

‍Sarah Ladipo Manyika was raised in Nigeria and has lived in Kenya, France, Zimbabwe, and England. Sarah is a novelist, short story writer, and essayist and founding books editor for Ozy.com. Her debut novel, In Dependence, is an international bestseller while her second novel, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun, has been translated into a number of languages. Her nonfiction includes personal essays and intimate profiles of people she meets from Mrs. Harris and Pastor Evan Mawarire to Toni Morrison and Michelle Obama.

Sarah previously served on MoAD’s board and currently serves as Board Director for the women’s writing residency, Hedgebrook.

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This program series is made possible by the generous support of Peggy Woodford Forbes