Jamia Wilson regularly speaks for audiences accross the globe. She talks about storytelling, activism, feminism, race, social justice, spirituality, youth engagement, women's leadership, and social media. Jamia also trains next-generation activists (of all ages) on media literacy, grassroots organizing, media readiness, and using social media to ignite social change.
Past speaking engagements include:
STARZ
Women Moving Millions Summit
Center for Reproductive Rights
MOAD Museum of the African Diaspora/Smithsonian
FactSet
LDO Equality and Anti-Discrimination Ombud/Oslo
Foyles UK
Rep. Carolyn Maloney’s Youth Council
Get Upside
Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health
Open Center
Omega Institute
Drexel University
Center for Black Literature
Center for Fiction
BGBookClubPresents: Young, Gifted and Black Conversations with Jamia Wilson
#BlogHer17: Heart & Soul-Activism for the Part-time Revolutionary: How to Make a Real Impact
#FP4BLKLives Reception at the NWSA Conference
#Hatespeech: Combating gender-based hate speech, harassment and violence against women
#PositionofStrength Launch, Twitter
#RadReproJustice: Atomic Books
2019 Printers Row Lit Fest
2019 SLICE Literary Writers' Conference
21 Leaders for the 21st Century’ - Women's eNews
29 Rooms by Refinery 29: Gurls Talk Curated by Adowa Aboah
45 Years after "Roe v Wade"
92nd Street Y Women and Hollywood: Thelma and Louise 20th Anniversary panelist
A Road Map for Activism & Advocacy for All (New York City)
A Vision Reading Series: Curated by Michelle Tea at AWP
ACLU Staff Conference: Plenary Speaker
APP Nexus Women's Leadership Forum
Aspen Institute Symposium on the State of Race in America 2018
Author Panel: Empowering Children Through Books
Brooklyn Museum: Meet the Moment with the Meteor
BABE: Book Launch at STRAND
Being Fearless at Omega Institute: Action in a Time of Disruption
Big Ideas Night: Well Read Black Girl
BinderCon LA, Los Angeles, CA
Black Women's Blueprint: A Praise Song Gala Reception: Words of Fire
Blog Her: Heart & Soul | #TheFWord – Feminism Across Generations
Brooklyn Book Festival Children's Day: We Can Do It!
Brooklyn Historical Society
Brooklyn Historical Society: 100th anniversary of women's suffrage
Brooklyn Historical Society: Independent Publishing in the Trump Era
Brooklyn Talks: Well-Read Black Girl with Glory Edim
Brooklyn Taskforce Against Teen Sexual Violence panelist
Bust School for Creative Living Panel with Amber Tamblyn: Fighting Patriarchal Narratives During the Trump Era
But Some of Us Are Brave: Feminist Press Panel
Caring Across Generations Panel Discussion with Sarita Gupta & the cast of Dot: Moderator
Caring Across Generations, DOT Talkback
Carrie Goldberg on Nobody's Victim, with Jamia Wilson
Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College:John Oliver Killens Reading Series
Chabot College, Hayward CA
Choice USA “We Are The Champions” panelist
Choice USA Awards Gala Emcee
Circle Round Dignity, Courage and Survival at Lincoln Center with Morley
Coming of Faith Launch at SxSW: Speaker
Conde Nast HQ
Decoding Likeability
Digital Undivided Innovation Thursdays
Ellevate Network-America's Future: Fast-Tracking Issues Affecting Women
Ellevate: America's Future-Fast Tracking Issues Affecting Women
Emma Willard School
Emma Willard School: MLK Day Special Program & Workshop
Empowering Kids Panel: Books of Wonder
Empowerment is YOUR Power: A Panel To Set Alight Your Possibility
Equal Means Equal: ERA Coalition Screening & Panel
Evening Panelist Villanova Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest
Evolution of the Sister Circle: From Orishas to Podcasting
Facebook: Safer Internet Day
Facing Race: Panelist
Faith in America: The Role of Women in Democratic Governance
Feminist Book Club with Well-Read Black Girl
Feminist Camp New York 2017
Feminist Camp: Charlottesville, Keynote
Feminist Camp: Media Day
Feminist Press Feminist Power Awards and Gala
Feminist Press Press Breakfast @ Pen and Brush
Feminist Press Story Time
Feminist Press: And the Spirit Moved Them @ Book Culture
Feminist.com 20th Anniversary Co-Produced by WAM! & LTW Studios
Feminist.com 20th Anniversary produced by LTW Studios and WAM!
Ford Foundation, Culture Shift Panel moderator (Youth SRHR)
Franklin & Marshall College
Frequent Soapbox, Inc. Feminist Summer Camp presenter
FRESH TALK: Righting the Balance
FRESH: Live presents “In With The New”
Georgetown University's OWN IT Summit, 2016
Global Feminism(s): Fifty Years of Feminist Literature from Around the World
Gloria: A Life "Act Two". Discussion moderated by Jamia Wilson.
Guest Lecturer: Athena Center at Barnard College
Guest Speaker: All-University Conference on the Advancement of Women in Academia
Guest Speaker: Los Angeles Review of Books/University of Southern California Publishing Workshop
Host, TED Women 2015
INCBA: International Cannabis Bar Association
International House: Matters of Race moderator
International Women's Summit
Interviewer and moderator, Harvard Bookstore Conversation with Gloria Steinem
It's Time 2015
Jazz for Gender Justice: An Evening of Joyful Resistance Benefitting the Feminist Press
Join the Fight for the ERA: #NextGenERA @ The Wing Georgetown by Equality Now & ERA Coalition
Keynote Speaker, SUNY Old Westbury
Keynote: NYCLU Liberty Conference
Keynote: REVEAL Conference
Keynote: Seneca Falls Vox: Voices for Planned Parenthood Event
Keynote: Spark Summit
Kweli International Literary Festival
Lecturer & panelists, LDO Conference on #HateSpeech & Gender in Oslo, Norway
Literary Orphans Presents: Burning Down the Walls: The Art and Importance of Writing Essays That Can Change the World
LitTap 2018 Facing Pages - Statewide Literary Arts Convening
Louise Meriwether Book Prize Celebration at AWP
Lower East Side Girls Club: Road Map for Revolutionaries
Luncheon Keynote: Planned Parenthood of the Gulf Coast, Houston TX
Matters of Race Discussion Panel
“Me Too” Rally at Trump International Hotel NYC
Miss Representation Keynote: Goucher College
Moderator, Omega Institute Women & Power
Modern HERstory: Blair Imani with Jamia Wilson
My Life on the Road: Conversation with Gloria Steinem
Narrative Healing Unlock the Power of Storytelling
National Organization of Women 50th Anniversary
Netizens Exclusive Film Screening & Conversation with Director and Producer Cynthia Lowen
Netizens screening and panel moderation-Athena Film Festival at Barnard
Netroots Nation 2015
New American Leaders Project Ready To Rise
New Leaders Council Celebrating Gender Equity
NOW 2016 Conference
Now What? Town Hall: Got A Girl Crush
Now What?: Town Hall
NYU Ally Week: 'I am Not Your Negro' screening and panel discussion
NYU GSAS Dean's Lunch: Alumni Achievement Award
OETC-SPARK18-Portland
Omega Institute: Being Bold-Women & Power Retreat
Omega Institute: Being Fearless Keynote
Omega Institute: Speaking Up As A Leader Workshop
Omega Women's Leadership Center: Speaking Up As A Leader
Omega Women and Power interviewer with Roxane Gay
Omega Institute benefit speaker
OWN IT Summit 2017: Georgetown University
OWN IT Summit Speaker: Georgetown University
Panel: Diversity and Pay Equity in Publishing
Panel: Keeping the Boat Afloat: Challenges of Sustainable Nonprofit Publishing & Surviving and Thriving as an Outsider Writer Panels at AWP
Panelist w/ Gloria Steinem, Gloria Feldt, Vickie Pynchon & Shelby Knox at SC Women’s Lawyers Association
Panelist, Good Pitch 2015
PEN World Voices
PEN World Voices Activist Story Hour: Young Gifted & Black
Planned Parenthood of the Southeast Legends in the Making Awards Honoree and Speaker
Power Panel: Activists, Interventions, Communities: The Future of Media Activism in Today’s Political Climate (DIGITAL engAGEment: Media. Literate. #activist 2018 Conference)
Powertopia: Women, Power and the Art of Leadership Parity
PP Votes Northwest and Hawaii: 20th Annual Seattle Luncheon
Presenting Faculty, Omega Institute's annual Speaking Up As A Leader workshop
PURE Book Discussion with Jamia Wilson & Teresa Delgado
PA Women’s Conference/Comcast Universal
Queens College Colloquia: Activism and Storytelling
RADICAL REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: HOWARD UNIVERSITY
Read it Forward Live! A Conversation with Blair Imani and Jamia Wilson
Redefining Activism: Using What You Have to Make a Difference in the World
Refinery 29: R29 Dialogue on Race in America
REVEAL Conference: Spiritual Activism panelist & Women of Spirit and Faith Alchemy Conference presenter
Rising to the Occasion
Roadmap for Revolutionaries: Resistance for All
S.H.E. Summit
She's Beautiful When She's Angry Screening Moderator
She's the First: Leadership Summit 2016
Shift NC Conference
Sisters of Comedy at Caroline's on Broadway
Slice Literary Writers' Conference
Smith College January Leadership Intensive
Smith College Lewis Leadership Workshop: Step Into Your Power
Soapbox: Feminist Camp "Media" speaker
Soul Camp East
Sounds True: Waking Up in the World [Online] Summit
Speaker at Anita Hill, 20 Years Later: Sex, Power, and Speaking Truth at Hunter College
Speaker at Franklin & Marshall College: Where Are All the Young Feminists? Girls, Social Media and the Presidential Election
Speaker, BookCon2015
Speaker, National Museum of Women in the Arts
Speaker: Addressed 6,000 activists at Planned Parenthood of New York City's Rally for Women’s Health
Speaker: Barnard Center for Research on Women-"Using Knowledge, Advancing Activism."
Speaker: Book Release Events for What You Really, Really, Want, I Believe Anita Hill, Rookie Yearbook's 1 & 2.
Speaker: Center for Reproductive Rights Leadership Summit
Speaker: Emma Willard School
Speaker: Facing Race
Speaker: Free Press
Speaker: Groundswell Fund Retreat
Speaker: Hollaback! Holla:Rev
Speaker: Netroots Nation
Speaker: Omega Institute
Speaker: Premiere, She's Beautiful When She's Angry (Bay Area)
Speaker: SexTech
Speaker: St. Agnes Academy
Speaker: St. Timothy's School
Speaker: TEDxHewitt
Speaker: The White House United State of Women Summit
Speaker: UMASS Dartmouth
Speaker: UNCSW #hatespeech panel sponsored by the Norwegian Ombud
Speaker: WAM! NYC Conference
Speaker: Yale Women's Leadership Conference-"The Difference Difference Makes"
Speaker: YTH Live
Speaking Up As A Leader
SRI Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing : The Truth of Violence Against Women and Gender Inequality
SRI: Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing
St. Agnes Academy Keynote
Students for Women's Equality and Rights at San Francisco University High School
SUNY Old Westbury
SXSW Interactive 2015, Austin, TX
SXSW moderator-Women in Media-SXSWOnline Harassment Summit
SXSW Online Harassment Summit: Panelist
SxSw Speaker
TED Women, Host
The Academi of Life-Conversation with Elizabeth Lesser
The Boudica Series: Festival of Women's Voices
The Dallas Institute for Humanities and Culture: Women's Rights
The Equal Rights Amendment @ The Brennan Center
The Feminist Press Feminist Power Awards
THE HEALING POWER OF TELLING YOUR STORY JAMIA WILSON, LISA WEINERT, AND KATE JOHNSON
The Key to Next-Generation #Femvertising: Ever-More Authentic Portrayals of Humans
The Li.st Live: WERK-Tomorrow There'll Be More of Us: Opal Tometi in Conversation With Jamia Wilson
The Lulu Awards
The New Normal? Women, Media, & Politics: Feminist Political Media
The Power of Friendship: Women Supporting Women
The State of Publishing for Black Writers
The Stories We Tell Our Children
The Tempest Launch, SXSW
The Together Live Tour
The Wing: Making Herstories Known
Together Live: Chicago
Together Live: Philadelphia, PA
Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World
Together We Rise: The Women’s March Rises in 2018
Toronto Public Library: Well-Read Black Girl
Townhall Meeting: Activists Building Movement For Change In Challenging Times
Try This, You Might Like It: A First Taste of Translation -- AWP Conference
TwitterNYC: Panelist, US Launch of #PositionofStrength
UMASS #HistComm Summit Lightning Conversations Series
UMASS Dartmouth: Media Representations of Female Victims of Gun Violence
UMASS History Graduate Student Association Capstone Panel
UMASS Public History Graduate Seminar, Guest speaker
UN & Black Women's Blueprint: Black Women's Truth & Reconciliation Commission Commissioner
UN Commission for the Status of Women: Norwegian Equality & Anti-Discrimination Ombudsman
UN CSW Creating A Safer Digital World for Young Women's Empowerment
UN Women “Engendering Technologies” panelist for the International Association of Women in Radio and TV
UN Women: FB Live Conversation on Online Abuse with Glamour, Hollaback! & Feminista Jones
UNCSW Building A Feminist Internet
University High School, San Francisco
University of California-San Diego Women's Center Workshop & 20th Anniversary Event
University of Ottawa: Open Participation is Power The Movement To End Online Harassment
Voices from the Ground: Transforming Dominant Cultural Narratives on Gender, Sexuality and Reproductive Justice
WBAI Katie Halper Show LIVE co-sponsored by the Nation: International Women's Day
We Are Girls Conference 2015: GENaustin Featured Speaker
We The People LIVE with Josh Zepps
Web of Change, Masterclass presenter at Esalen Institute
Well Read Black Girl Festival: Moderator
Well Read Black Girl-Toronto Public Library
When Black Women Lead: Keynote
Where Publishing Is Going Next: New Voices, New Viewpoints
White House United State of Women Speaker: Revolutionizing Gender Norms
Wise Woman Summit
WNBA/Pace University Women in the Literary Landscape Panel
Woke Women Rising: Speaking Up to Shape Change
Women & Power: Gathering Our Strength
Women's Media Center Social Media Training
Women’s Funding Network &Women Moving Millions presenter
Women’s March Organizers On The Importance Of An Intersectional Movement: Together We Rise
Words of Fire: A Praise Song for Black Feminists Gala and Awards
WSCADV 26th Annual Conference: #LeadWithLove
Yaba Badoe, Patrice Lawrence and Jamia Wilson in conversation
Yale Women's Leadership Conference
Young, Gifted and Black Talk and Signing at Moon Lane Books, London
Your Personal Road Map to Being an Effective Changemaker
YTH LIVE: Closing Plenary
Bring Jamia to your community! Book Jamia.
Mt. Holyoke College
Take The Lead with Gloria Feldt and Gloria Steinem.




Center for Reproductive Rights 2021 Gala @ The Greene Space
LIT NYS
Omega Institute: Women & Power Conference
TEDWomen
Ford Foundation, Culture Shift moderator
“Killing Us Softly” 45th anniversary at Smith College
Together Tour Chicago
Refinery 29 Dialogue: Race in America
Franklin & Marshall College
Providence College
Good Pitch 2015
SC Women’s Lawyer Conference
Liza Donnelly @ Georgetown University's OWN IT Summit 2016
Stories We Tell Our Children: Mara Hoffman Studios
Advertising Week 2016
Hollaback: Holla:Rev Conference Emcee at NYU
Union Theological Seminary
St. Agnes Academy
Providence College
St. Timothy’s School
Omega Institute