The Struggle of Visibility: Black Activism and Citizenship in Current Italy

Join us for a talk with Black Italian activist, Kwanza Musi Dos Santos. Her talk, titled "The Struggle of Visibility: Black Activism and Citizenship in Current Italy," will explore the intricate networks of activism that work towards disarming and erasing racial discrimination in Italy. This event is free and open to all. You can join us either in-person at Ridgley 122 or virtually via Zoom. 

Please RSVP via email to obtain the zoom link (elenad@wustl.edu). 

On Kwanza Musi Dos Santos 

Kwansa Musi Dos Santos is an Italian and afrobrazilian expert of DEI, trainer, and consultant. She is specialized on antiracism, environmental justice and intersectionality, and currently works with profit and non-profit organizations all over Europe.  

After a bachelor's degree in political science and international relations at Roma Tre University, an Erasmus exchange experience in Jena University (Germany), she attended a master's in management of cultural diversity at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.  

She is a member of the Advisory Board at the European organization "Union of Justice," an independent, people of color (POC) led organization dedicated to racial justice and
climate justice. 

She is also co-founder of the inter-cultural Association "QuestaèRoma", created in 2013 and led by a group of young Italians of color aimed to erase any form of discrimination through culture, politics, social awareness and art. 

Recently, she has been teaching with doc Camilla Hawthorne and Angelica Pesarini about Black Italy at the previous three editions of the Black Europe Summer School in Amsterdam and she was featured on Vice News Documentary about “Black Lives Matter in Italy”.