SPEAKER

Thus far, I have discussed my book and US civil rights history at over 80 venues, including Oxford University, Columbia University, the Smithsonian Institution, Mohammed V University in Morocco, and numerous US embassies throughout Europe.

For speaking engagements, please email: gail_milissa@icloud.com

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS, including TV and radio.

2021

• Online lecture series ‘A Three-Dimensional Look at Civil Rights History’, in collaboration with the United States Embassy Rome:
  • Part 1 – Antecedents of the Modern Rights Movement. The Early Days (pre-1955) – (April 27 2021) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ura4tc1vzY=1s
  • Part 2 – Who Are These People. A Case Study – (November 16 2021) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82oGLGi1Y3c&t=1s
  • Part 3 – Contemporary Issues in Black America. The Current State of Affairs. – (November 30 2021) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcH1aMGUh80=1s

2020

• Television interview (November 8, 2020) with Roberta Ammendola (Rai3) on the U.S. election – watch here

2019

• Rotary Club Rome International: At The Elbows of My Elders book presentation, introduction to historical context, video and Q&A session to honor UK Black History Month

2018

• Featured speaker American University Rome Job Fair
• Lecture entitled Antecedents of the Modern Civil Rights Movement, Rhode Island School of Design, Rome campus
• Panel discussion at Washington University (St. Louis) on 1968 student takeover of university’s accounts payable office in protest to on-campus brutality and in support of increased black enrolment and scholarship money, black studies courses divestment in South Africa, etc.
• Book presentation, highlighting the 10th anniversary of the Publication of At the Elbows of My Elders: One Family’s Journey Toward Civil Rights. Missouri History Museum in St. Louis, MO, in conjunction with #1 in Civil Rights: The African American Freedom Struggle in St. Louis exhibition.
• Panel discussion for U.S. exchange students on how to readjust to returning to the States, Temple University, Rome campus.
• Digital Video Conference entitled Filling the Void: Black History Month and Literature, with South African writers, sponsored by the U.S. Consulate, Cape Town, South Africa.

2016

• Book presentation at Civitella Ranieri Center in Umbertide (Umbria). (http://www.civitella.org/news)
• Lecture on early civil rights history and book presentation at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania
• Università di Roma, La Sapienza: Translating Human Rights (incontro/dibatito), Dipartimento di Studi Europei Americani e Interculturali
• L’Argonauta Bookstore, Rome Italy: Book Presentation
• United States Consulate, Florence, Italy: Book Presentation
• United States Embassy, Oslo, Norway: Civil Rights History
• United States Embassy, Rome, Italy: Book Presentation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytF8IIZZ3tk)
• L’Argonauta Bookstore, Rome, Italy: Book Presentation

2015

• Centro Studi Americani, Rome, Italy: Presentation of “Casa Grant,” the Italian translation of “At the Elbows of My Elders: One Family’s Journey Toward Civil Right.”
• United States Embassy, Tirana, Albania: Lectures on the Early Civil Rights Movement
• The University of Tirana
• The European University of Tirana
• Marubi School of Film and Multimedia
• Ismail Qemali High School
• The American Corner

2014

• John Cabot University, Rome, Italy
• Panelist: 2014 International Young Women’s Leadership Conference

2013

• United State Embassy, Rabat, Morocco: Lectures on the Early Civil Rights Movement
• Cayi Ayyad University, Marrakech
• Dar America, Casablanca
• Ain Chook University, Casablanca
• Moulay Benslimane University, Beni Mellal
• Mohammed V University, Rabat
• Institute of Leadership and Communication Studies, Rabat
• Moulay Ismail University, Meknes
• United States Embassy, Book Presentation and Lectures on the Early Civil Rights Movement, Paris, France:
• Lycee’ International Jea-Pierre Vernant, Sevres
• Universite’ Paris-Est, Creteil
• S. Embassy staff
• Read Club, Book Presentation (in French), Paris
• Universite’ de Paris Ouest, Nanterre
• Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3
• Shenker English Language School, Panel Discussion “Obama Dopo Obama” (Obama after Obama), Rome, Italy

2012

• National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Springfield, Viriginia – USA
• John Cabot University, Rome, Italy
• United States Embassy, Vienna, Austria
• Mediateque de Perpignan, Perpignan, France

2011

• The Abysinnian Baptist Church, Book Presentation, New York City, NY
• Pepperdine University, Lecture, Malibu, CA
• Universite’ d’Avignon, Book Presentation, Avignon, France
• Istituto Farina, Book Presentation sponsored by “L’associazione 9/11 di Vicenza,” Vicenza, Italy
• 2010
  National Endowment for the Arts, Writing Workshop, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
• Washington University, Book Presentation, St. Louis, MO
• University of Missouri-St. Louis, The Use of Research Materials in Writing Memoir Workshop, St. Louis, MO

2009

• Oxford University, Guest Speaker, Black History Month, African-Caribbean Oxford Society, Oxford, England
• Smithsonian Institution, Guest Speaker, Black History Month, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC
• Columbia University, Book Presention, Institute for Research in African American Studies, New York City, NY
• United States Ambassador’s Residence, Book Presentation and Photo Exhibition, Paris, France
• United States Embassy, Video Conferences, African Regional Services, Paris, France: Ten (10) video conferences with leading intellectuals,professors, writers, and students, throughout Africa (Uganda, Zambia, Mali, Kenya, Rwanda, Morocco, Madagascar, Swaziland, Tunisia) and in Haiti, organized and sponsored by U.S. embassies in these countries. (Conducted in English and French)
• Book Presentations (both in French and English) throughout France under U.S. Embassy auspices included:
• Jean Moulin Universite’, American Studies Institute, Lyon
• Universite’ de Lyon, 3, Lyon
• Ecole Al-Kindi (secondary school for Muslim students), Lyon
• Universite’ Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand
• Lycee’ Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand