'Everyday Transformations,' Funmilola Fagbamila to speak at CMU
This Thursday, March 16, students, staff and faculty can hear from Funmilola Fagbamila, one of the foundational members of Black Lives Matter.
The event was originally scheduled for Feb. 23, but was postponed due to weather conditions.
Fagbamila is the keynote speaker of Central Michigan University’s Black History Month events, and she will be speaking at 7:00 p.m. in Plachta Auditorium in Warriner Hall.
Lauren Rupe, a junior at CMU, is the lecture director for Program Board. She organized Fagbamila as a speaker this week and reached out to Multicultural Academic Student Services (MASS) to collaborate.
Rupe said she saw Fagbamila speak at a conference she attended for Program Board, and the people she attended with agreed that she would be a good voice to bring to campus.
“We all absolutely loved Funmilola and she just had a very powerful message when she spoke, and we just thought she’d be great with the campus,” Rupe said.
Rupe was also part of the team that organized the reading from poet Kyla Jenee Lacey on Feb. 8 as part of CMU’s Black History Month programming.
Fagbamila’s program is titled “Everyday Transformations: Becoming a Force for Good in the World and Your World.”
In it, she addressed themes like group-centered leadership and contemporary and historical justice movements, among others, according to her website.
“In this presentation, Funmilola Fagbamila addresses the critical work at the intersection of personal development and social transformation,” her website said. “Fagbamila draws from her greatest life lessons in order to address our collective call to become a force for good.”
According to Engage Central’s description of the event, Fagbamila’s work was honored by the United States Congress in 2015 and again in 2018.
