And She Could Be Next Documentary Screening

Join us for a virtual film screening of an excerpt of the two-part documentary And She Could Be Next, followed by a panel discussion.

Thursday, May 6, 2021
4:00 p.m. CT Film screening (excerpt)
4:45 p.m. CT Panel discussion
6:00 p.m. CT Event ends

Directed by Grace Lee and Marjan Safinia and filmed in 2018 and 2019 by a team of women filmmakers of color, And She Could Be Next features a dynamic slate of history-makers including: Stacey Abrams (GA), Rashida Tlaib (MI), Lucy McBath (GA), Veronica Escobar (TX), Maria Elena Durazo (CA), and Bushra Amiwala (IL).

RSVP here for the screening and discussion.

Panelists:

Juliet De Jesus Alejandre, Executive Director, Logan Square Neighborhood Association

Bushra Amiwala, Skokie School District 73.5 Board of Education Member

Rep. Dagmara Avelar, IL House of Representatives (D) 85th District

Kim Neely Du Buclet, Commissioner, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District

Moderators:

Lauren Pabst, Senior Program Officer, Journalism and Media, MacArthur Foundation

Tawa Mitchell, Senior Program Officer, Chicago Commitment, MacArthur Foundation

This event is co-hosted by the MacArthur Foundation, Cultivate: Women of Color Leadership, Nuestro Futuro (an initiative of the Chicago Community Trust), the Asian Giving Circle (a donor-advised fund of the Chicago Community Trust), and the Theta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.