The Women’s Leadership Conference at Savannah State University returns on Friday, March 18. The day-long conference will focus on women in the arts and media. Guests will choose from multiple workshops throughout the day and attend a keynote speech from Isabel Wilkerson and can attend a writing workshop with special guest Tina McElroy Ansa.

Isabel Wilkerson is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. The book brings to life one of the greatest underreported stories of the 20th Century. Wilkerson interviewed more than 1,200 people, unearthed archival research and gathered the voices of the famous and the unknown to tell the epic story of the redistribution of an entire people.

Wilkerson won the Pulitzer Prize for her work as Chicago bureau chief of the New York Times in 1994, making her the first black woman in the history of American journalism to win a Pulitzer Prize and the first African-American to win for individual reporting.

Wilkerson will be available for a book signing and dessert reception at the end of the day.

Author Tina McElroy Ansa began her career at the Atlanta Constitution, where she was the first black female to work at the daily morning newspaper. For eight years, she worked as a copy editor, makeup editor, layout editor, entertainment writer, features writer and news reporter. She is an avid gardener and birder who currently makes her home on the culturally rich St. Simons Island along the coast of Georgia.
 
The conference will also feature local vendors.

All WLC events will be held at the Student Union. Registration is $35, and includes lunch. Registration and further information is available at www.savannahstate.edu/WLC.