Davis Wright Tremaine Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is proud to welcome Professor Brandon R. Byrd for a presentation on Juneteenth on Tuesday, June 18 at 12:00 pm PT / 3:00 pm ET. This program is part of our regular DEI Education series and is eligible for DEI Billable Credit.

Professor Byrd is a scholar of Black intellectual and social history. He is the author of The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti and co-editor of Ideas in Unexpected Places: Reimagining Black Intellectual History and Haiti for the Haitians. He teaches at Vanderbilt University, where he is an Associate Professor of History and African American & Diaspora Studies. He is currently working on a biography of Benjamin "Pap" Singleton.

Professor Byrd will focus on the history and importance of Juneteenth. He will also touch on the latest onslaught against DEI and the impacts on teaching Black history. This event will be moderated by Davis Wright Tremaine's Robin Huey, Legal Secretary and Operations Manager in San Francisco.

In advance of this event, we invite you to submit questions to our panelists at officeofdei@dwt.com.

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We look forward to having you join us!

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