Brandi T. Summers Selected to Deliver Barnard's Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Distinguished Lecture

Her April 24 talk will be on recovery and the search for Black collective life in Oakland.

April 10, 2025

Brandi T. Summers has been selected by Barnard College's Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program to deliver the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Distinguished Lecture on April 24. 

Summers is an associate professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies, A&S African American and African Diaspora Studies. and director of Graduate Studies. Her talk is titled, “These hard times will kill you just dry long so: Recovery and the Search for Black Collective Life in Oakland.”