The JEC Fall Lecture Series Presents: An Evening with Claudia Rankine

As part of its fall lecture series, the Justice Education Center (JEC) welcomes Claudia Rankine, an award-winning poet, playwright, and MacArthur Fellowship recipient.

Rankine has written extensively about social justice and racial injustice, most notably in her award-winning works including Citizen: An American Lyric and TRIAGE. Her writings explore the subtle and overt forms of racism and systemic oppression that Black Americans experience in daily life and in the media, using poetry, essays, and other forms to challenge readers to confront racial bias and societal structures.  

Among her numerous awards and honors, Rankine is the recipient of the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, the Poets & Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, United States Artists, and the National Endowment of the Arts. A former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Claudia Rankine joined the NYU Creative Writing Program in Fall 2021. She lives in New York.

This event is free and open to the 7Cs community and the public.