University of Richmond will celebrate Founders' Week with guest speaker Felice Yeskel

March 8, 2007

Felice Yeskel, executive director and co-founder of Class Action, will give the Founders' Week keynote address at University of Richmond March 21, 7 p.m.

She will speak on "This Land is My Land? Does Class Matter?" in Cannon Memorial Chapel. The talk is free and open to the public. Yeskel's appearance also is part of the university's One Book, One Campus: Dialogues in Social Justice initiative, which annually encourages the campus to read and discuss a book on a social justice issue.

Class Action is an organization that works to raise consciousness about issues of class and money and their powerful impact on individual lives, relationships, organizations, institutions and culture. Yeskel is co-author of "Economic Apartheid in America" and an adjunct faculty member in the Social Justice Education Program at University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has led hundreds of workshops across the country about economic inequality and healing divisions among Americans of different class backgrounds, races, genders and sexual orientations.

For more information, contact the Office of the Chaplaincy at (804) 289-8500.