Power of Words Author Panel with Dr. Natsu Taylor Saito 01-30-2022

This event is part of The Power of Words When Poetry Meets Freedom Song and Images Program. A Georgia Humanities Project exploring writing, culture, and literacy in the movements for Civil Rights.

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The Power of Words Author Panel brings together each month four authors who utilize words to express powerful narratives, connection, and musing from a diversity of lenses.

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Theresa Davis is a highly valued member of the Atlanta poetry community. As the Literary Director at the ArtsXchange, Theresa offers a variety of writing and performance programming on the ArtsXchange virtual platform.

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Prof. Natsu Taylor Saito, J.D., Regents’ ; Professor and Professor of Law, Center for Access to Justice, College of Law, Georgia State University will provide additional historical perspectives and legal analysis. After receiving her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1987, she taught as an adjunct at Emory University School of Law before joining the Georgia State Law faculty. Prof Saito teaches public international law and international human rights, race, ethnicity, and the law. Currently a faculty affiliate of the Center for Access to Justice as well as the Department of African American Studies. She joined the College of Law faculty in 1994 and became a Distinguished University Professor in 2016. In 2021, she was appointed a Regents’ Professor. Prof Saito is the author of three books and about fifty articles or book chapters. Her latest book is Colonialism, Race, and the Law: Why Structural Racism Persists (NYU Press, 2020). She has served as an advisor to the Asian American Law Student Association, the Latinx and Caribbean Law Student Association, the Immigration Law Society, and the student chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.