June Eric-Udorie

Drawing from her evidence-based research, Eric-Udorie will challenge participants to reframe how they think about discrimination, systemic inequalities, and what an effective work environment looks like. In this informative talk, Eric-Udorie uses intersectionality as a tool for organizations looking to improve diversity and inclusion. Audience members will learn how to build a workplace that is accommodating for multiply marginalized people that goes beyond just employee wellbeing and inspires them to feel empowered as agents of change.

As a catalyzer of feminist campaigns, June Eric-Udorie has seen firsthand how activism succeeds and where it can fall short. Drawing from years of feminist theory and her personal experience as a Black, queer, and disabled woman, Eric-Udorie shows how mainstream feminism has historically marginalized non-white women, while arguing that without an intersectional fight for justice, feminism will merely serve the status quo. In this talk, Eric-Udorie discusses what a truly inclusive future might look like and how to get started on creating one.

June Eric-Udorie has worked on successful campaigns from a young age, from her fight to convince the British government to put feminism back into high school curriculum to her work to end female genital mutilation and forced marriage. In this talk, Eric-Udorie discusses how young and diverse voices are crucial to the fight for social justice, breaks down the fundamentals of starting a campaign, and highlights how audiences can incorporate feminist action into their day-to-day life.

At age 16, June Eric-Udorie wrote and published her first article for The Guardian. She has been writing and editing for publications ever since. In this talk, Eric-Udorie discusses the obstacles that initially blocked her from these forums, including her background, age, and education, how to navigate these spaces as an outsider, and why diverse voices are so important to universal growth and change.

As a Human Rights Scholar at the Kenan Institute of Ethics, June Eric-Udorie studies the landscape of reproductive justice around the world. But her work in this field goes beyond the academic sphere into larger questions of justice: Who can access an abortion and why? What does true reproductive freedom look like? Where do women of all identities fit into the fight to uphold abortion rights, and who gets left behind? Eric-Udorie unravels these questions and more in this timely talk.

Intersectional feminism seeks to leave no woman behind in the fight for equal rights, and yet women with disabilities are often excluded in pernicious ways. From inaccessible spaces to the medical establishment’s reluctance to listen to women’s accounts of their own pain, disabled women face a number of barriers in not just joining the feminist movement, but changing it. In this talk, June Eric-Udorie draws on her own experience to demonstrate how feminist activists can inadvertently block the contributions of disabled women, and how they can create safe spaces for all voices instead.