Keynote Speaker, storäe michele

“The Black Women's Empowerment Conference at the Tufts Africana Center is a one-day event scheduled for April 9, 2022, and is open to all Black women and femme undergraduate and graduate students attending a university in the Northeast. Our conference seeks to empower Black women and femme postsecondary students by providing them with the networking and leadership skills necessary to succeed in their academic and professional careers. 

The theme for the 2022 BWEC Conference is Radical Self-Love. Our goal is to inspire conversations about care for oneself and one’s community, and to uplift Black women. This year we hope to achieve this goal by holding in-person and virtual accessible lectures, panels, and workshops featuring Black women scholars, industry professionals, and influencers. “Radical self-love summons us to be our most expansive selves, knowing that the more unflinchingly powerful we allow ourselves to be, the more unflinchingly powerful others feel capable of being.” -  Sonya Renee Taylor. “