The 2015 Susan and Michael J. Angelides Public Lecture by Ava DuVernay, Director of Oscar-nominated film SELMA
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Rutgers Business School
100 Rockafeller Rd Piscataway Township, NJ 08854Description
Ava DuVernay is the first African-American woman nominated for Golden Globe and Critics Choice Awards for Best Director for "Selma," in addition to Independent Spirit and NAACP Image Award nominations.
She won the Best Director Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012 for her acclaimed feature “Middle of Nowhere." Her previous narrative and documentary work includes "I Will Follow, "Venus Vs.," "My Mic Sounds Nice" and "This is The Life." Prior to her directorial career, DuVernay worked as a film marketer and publicist for more than 14 years.
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The Rutgers University Institute for Women's Leadership (IWL)
As a consortium of ten units dedicated to education, research, and public service, the Institute for Women's Leadership (IWL) at Rutgers-New Brunswick examines women and gender, advocates on behalf of diversity and gender equity, and advances women's leadership in all arenas of public life.
INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP CONSORTIUM MEMBERS:
Douglass Residential College; Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Center for American Women and Politics; Institute for Research on Women; Center for Women’s Global Leadership; Center for Women and Work; The Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities; Office for the Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics; Center on Violence Against Women and Children, School of Social Work; and Center for Women in Business, Rutgers Business School.
For more information visit iwl.rutgers.edu