Join the WVU Center for Black Culture in honoring the life of Martin Luther King Jr. at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 18, in the Mountainlair Ballrooms.
Tiffany Dena Loftin, activist and community organizer, is the keynote speaker.
The celebration provides an opportunity for the WVU and greater Morgantown communities to come together for a celebration of the life and legacy of King, and to recognize those in our community who have worked to uphold the principles of equality and social justice.
Loftin is the senior campaign lead at AFA-CWA, where she helped lead the campaign to organize 28,000 Delta Airlines flight attendants to win their first contract and form a union. She also serves as the higher education lead for the Debt Collective, a union of borrowers who aim to abolish debt and make education, housing and health care a right for all.
A former national director for the Youth and College Division at the NAACP, Loftin is a certified trainer and community organizer for public education, labor and all things racial justice through civic engagement and issue campaign organizing. She is also the producer and host of the “How We Get Free” podcast and a teacher-in-residence at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
For questions, contact Javier McCoy, interim director of the Center for Black Culture, at Javier.Mccoy@mail.wvu.edu.