Journalist Nikole Hannah Jones, the creator of The 1619 Project, will speak at Penn State on Tuesday, October 5. The event will begin at 7 p.m. on Zoom.

Jones is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who covers racial injustice for the New York Times. She created The 1619 Project, which focuses on reframing how we understand history, particularly that of Black Americans.

On top of that, Jones has researched the resegregation of schools and how the federal government has failed to enforce the 1968 Fair Housing Act. She co-founded the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, a training and mentorship program dedicated to increasing the ranks of investigative reporters of color.

Jones came into the public eye over the summer when the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill offered her a five-year contract for a position as Knight Chair in the school’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media. The university’s Board of Trustees didn’t grant her tenure, which caused an uproar among faculty and online.

Jones left UNC and now serves in a near-identical role at Howard University.

You can register for tickets to Jones’ Zoom lecture through this form.