Maisha Winn is the Chancellor’s Leadership Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Davis, and the co-founder and co-director of the Transformative Justice in Education Center. In her talk, Winn examines the role of the Black Arts Movement in building aliteracy continuum for readers, writers, speakers and activists.This program is made possible by the Aralee Strange Fund for Art and Poetry, and by a Department-Invited Lecture grant from the Willson Center.