Heather Tobis Booth, a black social activist who's also deeply involved in politics, will deliver this year's John White Fellowship and Lecture at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Booth's talk will focus on how people, especially young people, can become engaged in government and politics.
Admission is free.
Parking will be available in the lot north of the law building. SIUC's Public Policy Institute is arranging the visit. Booth traces her activism to the civil rights and women's movements of the 60's. She also founded Citizen Action, the nation's largest grassroots progressive political organization, which fought to improve health care, toxic waste disposal and consumer protection laws. On the international front, she's worked on pro-democracy programs in Nigeria, the Middle East, Indonesia and several countries in the former Soviet Union.