How to Be Black
Baratunde Thurston
Wednesday, 17 Apr 2013 at 8:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union
Baratunde Thurston is a technology-loving comedian from the future. He co-founded the political blog "Jack and Jill Politics" and served as Director of Digital for The Onion before launching the comedy and technology startup Cultivated Wit. He writes the monthly back-page column for Fast Company, and his first book, How To Be Black, is a New York Times bestseller. Thurston resides in Brooklyn, lives on Twitter and performs standup comedy regularly in New York City. He grew up in the inner city of Washington DC in the 1980s, attended the Sidwell Friends School on a scholarship, and graduated from Harvard.Cosponsored By:
- VEISHEA
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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