Oregon Humanities and the Oregon State University Center for the Humanities present a Consider This conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine.

Tickets

Tickets for this event are $5 for OSU students and $15 for the general public. Ticket sales will open February 13. Purchase tickets here.

About Our Guest

Hannah-Jones has spent her career investigating racial inequality and injustice, and her reporting has earned her the MacArthur Fellowship, a Peabody Award, two George Polk Awards, and the National Magazine Award three times. The book version of The 1619 Project and as well as the 1619 Project children's book, Born on the Water, were instant #1 New York Times bestsellers. The 1619 Project is now a six-part docuseries on Hulu.

Hannah-Jones serves as the Knight Chair of Race and Journalism at Howard University, where she founded the Center for Journalism & Democracy. She is also the cofounder of the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, which seeks to increase the number of investigative reporters and editors of color, and in 2022 she opened the1619 Freedom School, a free, afterschool literacy program in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa. Hannah-Jones holds a Master of Arts in Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned her BA in History and African-American studies from the University of Notre Dame.

About the Venue

The Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts (PRAx) is on the campus of Oregon State University in Corvallis. This event will be held in Detrick Hall, a 490-seat auditorium. 

Mobility Access: Accessible seating and companion seating is available. Detrick Hall includes designated spaces for wheelchairs as well as bariatric seating in outstanding seating locations. These seats may be selected at the point of purchase. All exterior routes to the building are accessible for mobility devices.

Parking: The closest accessible parking is located in the A3 parking lot south of the Kerr Administration Building, a short distance from the main entrance to the building. Accessible parking is also located in the B1 lot across the street from PRAx. Permits are not required after 5 p.m.

Public Transportation: Corvallis Transit System bus lines 3, 6, and 8 stop one block away at SW 15th St. and Jefferson Ave.

Read more about PRAx.