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You’re invited for a panel discussion on Wednesday, January 15, 2025 with Tonika Johnson, artist, activist, and creator of the Folded Map Project and Dr. Maria Krysan, distinguished professor of sociology and award-winning author featuring their newly published book Don’t Go: Stories of Segregation and How to Disrupt It. Joining them will be Northwestern alum and Don’t Go storytellers, Caroline O’Boyle) and Leslie Cortez.

The panel will offer a powerful examination of race, segregation, and the meaning of place through the stories of individual people who ignored warnings of which neighborhoods they shouldn’t go to as well as stories of those who have spent their lives in the south and west sides of Chicago.  

The first 25 students to attend in person will receive a free copy of Don’t Go! 

Refreshment: 4:30 – 5:00pm | Panel: 5:00-7:00pm 

This event is graciously co-sponsored by the Department of Black Studies, the Department of Sociology, the Institute for Policy Research, the Medill School of Journalism, Alumni Relations and Development, and Student Affairs Campus Inclusion & Community.