Every year the symposium features a keynote memorial lecture. This year will feature two speakers, Tim Wise, author and scholar, and Julia Putnam, Detroit principal and writer. Each will give a brief lecture before sitting down together for a structured dialogue. Tim Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and educators in the United States. He has spent the past 25 years speaking to audiences in all 50 states, on over 1000 college and high school campuses, at hundreds of professional and academic conferences, and to community groups across the country. He is also the host of the new podcast, Speak Out with Tim Wise. Julia Putnam is a lifelong Detroiter. Her professional life began, unwittingly, when she was sixteen and the first young person to sign up for Detroit Summer, a youth volunteer organization begun by James and Grace Lee Boggs in 1992. Through this work, she realized her passion for community-building and nurturing youth voice and began a career in education. She taught for five years in Detroit, including serving as writer-in-residence for the InsideOut Literary Magazine program. She wrote a regular column on education (“Learning for Life”) for the Michigan Citizen, which has been required reading at major Michigan universities.