Ijeoma Oluo

Writer, Speaker & Internet Yeller

Ijeoma Oluo (ee-joh-mah oh-loo-oh) is a writer, speaker and Internet yeller. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race and most recently, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America.

Her work on race has been featured in The Guardian, The New York Times and The Washington Post, among many other publications. She was named to the 2021 TIME 100 Next list and has twice been named to the Root 100. 

She received the 2018 Feminist Humanist Award and the 2020 Harvard Humanist of the Year Award from the American Humanist Association. She lives in Seattle, Washington.

Conference Opening Keynote
Thursday, April 13, 2023
9:00 am - 10:00 am, EDT