Wednesday, September 20, 2023
5:30 pm ET
$25.00 - General Admission
Free to WOC and WLS Members
Join us as we kick-off the fall season, coming together in community and conversation. WOC Literary Society, our book club, will host this very special WOC Connections event, focused upon its next book selection, On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker, authored by her great-great-granddaughter and celebrated author, A'Lelia Bundles.
The evening will begin with virtual networking and then we’re in for an exclusive treat, as our community has the opportunity to hear directly from the author and discuss the importance of Madam CJ Walker’s legacy for women in philanthropy. You won’t want to miss this!
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Speaker
A’Lelia Bundles, Author and Founder of the Madam Walker Family Archives
A’Lelia Bundles is the author of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker, a New York Times Notable Book about her entrepreneurial great-great-grandmother and the inspiration for Self Made, the fictional Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer. The Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance, the first major biography of her great-grandmother, will be published in summer 2024 by Scribner.
She is the founder of the Madam Walker Family Archives and serves on several nonprofit boards including the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute, the March on Washington Film Festival, Indiana Landmarks, the Women’s Suffrage National Monument Foundation and the Smithsonian’s American Women’s History Initiative. A former network television executive and Emmy Award winning producer at ABC News and NBC News, she is chair emerita of the National Archives Foundation and a vice chair emerita of Columbia University.