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The Institute for Women’s Leadership presents
The 2015 Susan and Michael J. Angelides Lecture by
Ava DuVernay
Director of Oscar-nominated film SELMA
Lecture: Friday, April 24, 2015, 3:00 p.m.
Large Lecture Hall | Rutgers Business School | Livingston Campus
100 Rockafeller Road | Piscataway, NJ 08854
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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.
The Annual Susan and Michael J. Angelides Lecture at the Institute for Women’s Leadership is an endowed series featuring path breaking women leaders from many areas of achievement.
This year’s Angelides Lecture is part of the Women, Media & Tech Initiative of the Institute for Women’s Leadership Consortium and the School of Communication & Information.
Co-sponsors for the Ava DuVernay Lecture include: Institute for Women’s Leadership Consortium, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Department of History, and the Paul Robeson Cultural Center.
INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP CONSORTIUM MEMBERS:
Douglass Residential College; Department of Women’s and Gender Studies; Center for American Women and Politics; Institute for
Research on Women; Center for Women’s Global Leadership; Center for Women and Work; Women and the Arts Collaborative; Office for
the Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics; and the Center on Violence Against Women and Children