Nicola Yoon is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Instructions for Dancing; Everything, Everything; The Sun Is Also a Star; and co-author of Blackout. She is a National Book Award finalist, Michael L. Printz Award recipient, and Coretta Scott King–John Steptoe New Talent Award winner, and the first Black woman to hit #1 on the New York Times Young Adult best-seller list. Two of her novels have been made into major motion pictures, and she’s the co-publisher of Joy Revolution, a Random House young adult imprint dedicated to love stories starring people of color. She grew up in Jamaica and Brooklyn, NY, and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, novelist David Yoon, and their daughter.

Sponsored by the Education Department, the Africana Studies Program, the American and Native American Studies Program, the English Department, the International Studies Program, the Asian Studies Program, the Film Department, and the Engaged Pluralism Program.

A Louise Seaman Bechtel (1915) Lecture.

This event is free and open to the public.