The Texas Mindset Initiative’s next event in its speaker series is co-sponsored by TIDES and features authors Shanterra McBride and Rosalind Wiseman discussing how to engage in interracial conversations. Their book, out this month, is Courageous Discomfort: How to Have Important, Brave, Life-Changing Conversations about Race and Racism.

Rosalind Wiseman is a Colorado-based speaker and bestselling author, perhaps best known for Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and the New Realities of Girl World, the basis for the hit movie and Broadway musical Mean Girls. She has authored several other parenting books, including Masterminds & Wingmen: Helping Our Boys Cope With Schoolyard Power, Locker-room Tests, Girlfriends, and the New Rules of Boy World; Distance Learning Playbook for Parents: How To Support Your Child’s Academic; Emotional and Social Learning in Any Setting; and Owning Up Curriculum. Rosalind is a regular contributor to National Public Radio, the New York Times, the TODAY Show and other national media.

Shanterra McBride is a Texas-based author, preacher, speaker and teacher. She is the founder of MARVELOUS UNIVERSITY, a social enterprise that offers life coaching and success planning for young people, specializing in leadership development for girls and young women. Shanterra was awarded the Profiles in Leadership Award from SMU for having made a significant impact on the city of Dallas and on the quality of life of girls and women all over the country. She is the author of Love Your Jiggle: The Girls’ Guide To Being Marvelous, an inspirational book for girls ages 11 to 17. Shanterra is also an active member of the country’s oldest historically Black sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha.

Zoom link: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/99382172327?pwd=N0wyN2RvalY0VkR1ZGs2UTFFQnBOUT09

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Sponsored by: Texas Behavioral Science & Policy Institute (TxBSPI), Texas Institute for Discovery Education in Science (TIDES), and the College of Liberal Arts Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion