Event: October 3, 2018, 6:00 pm

Title: Exploring Global Narratives: Navigating Identity, Resistance, and Gender through Storytelling: A conversation with Alexis Okeowo.

When: October 3rd, 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Where: Princeton University Arts Museum, McCormick Hall – Room 101

Join us in a conversation with Alexis Okeowo. The moderated discussion will highlight Alexis Okeowo’s work from her latest book and illustrate how she navigates different elements of identity, gender, and resistance through storytelling, and provide an overview of her experiences in Africa during and after her Princeton in Africa fellowship.

Alexis graduated from Princeton University and is also a Princeton in Africa (06-07’) alumna. She is the author of “A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa,” for which she received the 2018 PEN Open Book Award. She is a Visiting Journalist at the Russell Sage Foundation.