Vancouver – Clark College will welcome Rosa Clemente, a scholar and activist, to keynote its “Transformation: A New Era of Social Activism,” event in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The event, which is free and open to the public, runs from noon to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 18, at the Gaiser Student Center on Clark College’s main campus.
Clemente is co-founder of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention and a leading scholar on Afro-Latinx identity. She is a doctoral student at the W.E.B. Dubois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Clemente has sat on the boards of Black Lives Matter, the National Priorities Project, The Brecht Forum and the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. She was also the Green Party’s candidate for vice president in the 2008 election.