Emancipate NC Executive Director to Present 2024 Summer Reading Program Lecture

Dawn Blagrove, attorney and executive director of Emancipate NC, will present the 2024 Summer Reading Program Lecture on Thursday, Sept. 19, at 7 p.m. in Jones Auditorium.

Blagrove will present “Flex our citizenship muscle: creating a physically fit democracy.” Her talk is part of Meredith’s 2024 summer reading theme, “Strong Voices: Empowering Student Citizenship.” 

Blagrove has emerged as a leading voice in North Carolina, demanding an end to mass incarceration and the dismantling of systemic and institutional racism. A graduate of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) and North Carolina Central School of Law, Blagrove worked for eight years as a post-conviction staff attorney with North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services. This experience, combined with her undergraduate training in secondary education, fuels her passion for educating youth and the public about abolishing the carceral system as executive director of Emancipate NC.

Through the summer reading theme, the College is promoting civic engagement throughout the fall semester with events and activities. Visit meredith.edu/srp-2024  for more information.

This event, which is free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by the Office of First Year Experience and the Department of History, International Studies, Political Science, and Religion. For Meredith students, the lecture qualifies as an academic/cultural event in General Education.