CELESTE HEADLEE is an award-winning journalist, professional speaker, and the author of Speaking of Race: Why Everybody Needs to Talk About Racism – and How to Do It; We Need To Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter; and Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving. Her TEDx Talk about better conversations has more than 23 million total views. Headlee teaches journalism and communication at Morgan State University and is the proud granddaughter of composer William Grant Still, the “dean” of African American composers. Freedom’s Daughters: How a Generation of Black Women Resisted Oppression Through Literacy and Education (Flatiron Books) is her latest book.
