Please join us on Saturday August 29th, 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. (PT), for an online talk and Q&A session about systemic racism with Latoya Peterson as part of our Buddhism in Society Discussion Series. Latoya will reflect on the need to understand systems and share her own personal story and how she was able to run up a down escalator.

Named one of Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 rising stars in media, she is best known for the award winning blog Racialicious.com – the intersection of race and pop culture. 

She is cofounder, CXO, and Director for the Culture at Glow Up Games, a creative R & D studio telling beautifully crafted stories using mobile, AR/VR, AI, and other emerging technologies. In 2018, she soft launched AI in the Trap, a collaborative art project that explores the future of artificial intelligence and predictive policing through a hip-hop lens.

Previously, she was the Deputy Editor, Digital Innovation for ESPN’s The Undefeated, an Editor-at-Large at Fusion, and the Senior Digital Producer for Al Jazeera America’s The Stream. In 2016, she produced a critically acclaimed YouTube series on Girl Gamers that was highlighted on Spotify.

Known for bringing a hip-hop feminist and racial justice framework to technological and cultural analysis, Latoya’s perspectives have been widely published in outlets like Teen Vogue, NPR, ESPN the Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Essence, Spin, Vibe, Marie Claire, Kotaku, The Atlantic, and The Guardian. She was a contributor to Jezebel.com and worked with brands like the Lean In Foundation, NPR, the Wikimedia Foundation, and Weber-Shandwick as a digital consultant.

She is currently on the advisory board of the Data & Society Institute and the board of visitors for The John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships. She is a US-Japan Leadership Foundation Delegate for 2018 (Seattle) and 2019 (Tokyo). She was a John S. Knight Journalism 2012-2013 Fellow at Stanford University focusing on mobile technology and digital access. She served as a Harvard Berkman Center Affiliate, a Poynter Institute Sensemaking Fellow, and one of the inaugural Public Media Corps fellows.

She is also part of the selection committee for the Museum of Play’s World Video Game Hall of Fame.

“Buddhism in Society” aims to explore and understand how to bring the principles of awareness, mindfulness and creative responses to difficult problems present in our communities.

Please Join us via Zoom:

https://zoom.us/j/807694090

During the discussion please mute yourself if you are in a noisy area, and remember to unmute yourself if you are speaking.