Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Isabel Wilkerson Featured at Homestead Benefit
Homestead Community Land Trust
Creating stability, equity and opportunity through permanently affordable homeownership.
?Seattle, WA – Homestead Community Land Trust today announced that Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, will join host Marcus Harrison Green, on September 12, 2024 in an evening of conversation to benefit Homestead Community Land Trust. Wilkerson is the author of the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestsellers The Warmth of Other Suns, and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Proceeds will support Homestead’s work to create housing justice in King County.
Wilkerson won the Pulitzer Prize for her deeply humane narrative writing while serving as Chicago Bureau Chief of The New York Times in 1994, making her the first black woman in the history of American journalism to win a Pulitzer Prize and the first African American to win for individual reporting. In 2016, President Barack Obama awarded Wilkerson the National Humanities Medal for "championing the stories of an unsung history.
Ms. Wilkerson will be joined by Marcus Harrison Green, the publisher of the South Seattle Emerald, and a columnist with the Seattle Times.
Ms. Wilkerson’s appearance is the second in a series that explores the systemic issues that create disparities in who has access to buying a home and the solutions and resilience that address these issues.
“Ms. Wilkerson’s work creates an opening of awareness about a social ‘operating system’ based on hierarchy working in the background of our culture, largely undetected. Through that opening she shines a light on injustices created by that operating system,” said Kathleen Hosfeld, CEO and Executive Director for Homestead Community Land Trust. “Our conversation will bring these themes home to our communities, and include the stories of those who have sought to overcome and rewrite the operating system.”
“I discovered, while working on The Warmth of Other Suns, that I was not writing about geography and relocation, but about the American caste system, an artificial hierarchy in which most everything that you could and could not do was based upon what you looked like and that manifested itself north and south. I had been writing about those who were seeking freedom from the caste system in the South, only to discover that the hierarchy followed them wherever they went. I look forward to talking with Homestead and Marcus Harrison Green about how this shows up in King and Pierce Counties, and the challenges of dismantling the caste system today,” Wilkerson said.
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Homestead Community Land Trust creates stability, equity and opportunity by developing land and housing in trust, giving lower-income households the opportunity to own a home that is affordable to them and remains affordable to future owners.? Community land trusts were created in the late 1960s as an act of resistance against Jim Crow discrimination.? Our work is expanding an equitable economy for housing to create vibrant communities, help repair the harms of housing discrimination and protect vulnerable communities from displacement.
All net proceeds of this event will build more permanently affordable homes for income-qualified households in our region, steward land in trust for the benefit of the community and support our efforts to support community-led housing developments.
Tickets for the event range in price from $200 to $0, with a regular ticket priced at $50. The ticket schedule includes “solidarity” tickets that grant admission for free to those unable to pay.
Tickets are available now at A Conversation With Isabel Wilkerson
Individual and organizational sponsorships of the event are still available. For details please contact [email protected]
More information about Homestead Community Land Trust at HomesteadCLT.org.
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7 个月I'm so excited for this and can't wait!