The 2025 Mansfield Lecture and Fellows’ Presentation
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Roosevelt University Ida B. Wells Lounge
430 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60605
"The Questions We Ask and the Stories We Tell: Grassroots Journalism and Storytelling Matters"
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
“Unmute: Speak, Act, Change”
12:45–2 p.m.
"The Questions We Ask and the Stories We Tell: Grassroots Journalism and Storytelling Matters" focuses on the stories that help us remember, locate, analyze, transform, connect and feel. When our words are censored, and entire histories are struck from public record, while other stories are highlighted, we are able to see more clearly the centrality of stories to societies, communities, identities, and power.
Moderator:
Duaa Eldeib
Investigative Reporter, ProPublica
2015 and 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist
Panelists:
Chris Benson, award-winning author, attorney, associate professor of journalism at Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications
Yohance Lacour, Pulitzer Prize and Peabody Award-winning journalist at the Invisible Institute
Maya Schenwar, award-winning author, editor, journalist, director of the Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism
“Unmute: Speak, Act, Change” includes six students from the Spring 2025 Mansfield Institute for Social Justice Fellowship in Activism and Community Engagement (FACE) program.
Mansfield Fellows will speak to their process of ‘unmuting’ while dreaming and building community. They hope to connect with students that may be interested in the Mansfield Fellowship as a pathway toward building community and changing the world.
Moderator:
Dr. Heather Dalmage, director of the Mansfield Institute for Social Justice
Panelists:
Stella Murray, Psychology
Oswaldo Ocampo, Finance
Lina Brown, International Studies
Katlyn Sabby, History
Rebecca Simpkins, Journalism
Treasure Thomas, Criminal Justice
For more information, contact Dr. Heather Dalmage, director of the Mansfield Institute.