Symone D. Sanders | Earlham College
Symone D. Sanders | Earlham College
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Celebration with Symone D. Sanders
When: Sunday, January 15, 2023, 7 – 8:30pm
Where: Online/Virtual
Event Locator: 2022-AAHDBX
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Join us as we welcome strategist, communicator, and commentator Symone Sanders as this year's Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration speaker. Sanders will highlight King's life and legacy.
Sanders rose to prominence in 2016 as the national press secretary for U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders's then-presidential campaign. At 25, she became the youngest presidential press secretary on record and was named to Rolling Stone Magazine's list of 16 young Americans shaping the 2016 election.
At 29, she published her first book, No, You Shut Up: Speaking Truth to Power and Reclaiming America, and served as a senior advisor for President Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign. At 31, Sanders was appointed as a senior member of the Biden-Harris administration serving as Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor and Chief Spokesperson to Vice President Kamala Harris.
A communicator with a passion for problem-solving and social justice, Sanders served as the national chair of the Coalition of Juvenile Justice Emerging Leaders Committee and a Federal Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice member before joining Senator Sanders's campaign. There, she worked to raise the profile of young voices in the fight for juvenile justice reform and brought millennial perspectives to policy conversations.
Before joining the Biden-Harris administration, Sanders was the principal of the 360 Group, where she helped clients find sound solutions to challenging political and social problems.
Sanders is a former political commentator for CNN and a resident fellow of Harvard's Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School and the University of Southern California's Center for the Political Future.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Please register at https://iuemlkcelebration2023.eventbrite.com/
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