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Salamishah Tillet is a keynote speaker and industry expert whose speaking topics include Business, Influential Women, Personal Growth, Self-Improvement, TED, Women, Workshop

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Salamishah Tillet Biography

A scholar, writer, and activist, Salamishah Tillet is a contributing critic at large for The New York Times where she has been writing since 2015. She writes about popular culture, politics, gender, sexuality, and race, and before The Times, wrote about politics and culture for The Nation and The Root. She is the author of In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece (Abrams, 2021), and Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination (Duke University Press, 2012). She is the co-host and co-producer of “The Because of Anita” podcast with Cindi Leive of The Meteor.

She was awarded the 2020 Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction fellowship for her cultural memoir, All The Rage: Mississippi Goddam and The World Nina Simone Made. In May, she was named a 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for her next project, In Lieu of the Law: “Me Too’ and The Politics of Justice, a cultural history of the world’s largest social media movement.

Currently, she is the Henry Rutgers Professor of Creative Writing and African American and African Studies and the director of Express Newark, the Center for Socially Engaged Art and Design at Rutgers University - Newark. Upon arriving at Rutgers, she founded New Arts Justice, an initiative for feminist approaches to public art in the City of Newark.

With her sister, Scheherazade Tillet, she founded A Long Walk Home, an arts organization that empowers young people to end violence against girls and women. In 2020, she was a founding member of the Black Girl Freedom Fund, a 10-year-initiative to invest $1Billion dollars in the lives and livelihood of Black girls and young women and their families.

She received her Bachelor of Arts in English and African American Studies and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, her Masters of Art in Teaching in English from Brown University, and her Masters of Art in English and American Literature and her Ph.D. in American Studies from Harvard University.

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Salamishah Tillet Videos

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Salamishah Tillet, In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece, in conversation with Marsha Norman
Salamishah Tillet: In Search of the Color Purple

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Salamishah Tillet Books

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Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights Imagination

FAQs on booking Salamishah Tillet

How do I book Salamishah Tillet to speak at my event?

Our experienced booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure speakers like Salamishah Tillet for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment since 2002. Click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page to check availability for Salamishah Tillet, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get speaking fee information and check availability for Salamishah Tillet or any other speaker of your choice.
What are the speaker fees for Salamishah Tillet

Speaking fees for Salamishah Tillet, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. The estimated fees to book Salamishah Tillet are for live events and for virtual events. For the most current speaking fee to hire Salamishah Tillet, click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak directly with an experienced booking agent.
What topics does Salamishah Tillet speak about?

Salamishah Tillet is a keynote speaker and industry expert whose speaking topics include Business, Influential Women, Personal Growth, Self-Improvement, TED, Women, Workshop.
Where does Salamishah Tillet travel from?

Salamishah Tillet generally travels from Newark, NJ, USA, but can be booked for private corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. For more details, please contact an AAE Booking agent.
Who is Salamishah Tillet’s agent?

AAE Speakers Bureau has successfully booked keynote speakers like Salamishah Tillet for clients worldwide since 2002. As a full-service speaker booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Please click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page including the details of your event, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Salamishah Tillet for your next private or corporate function.
What is a full-service speaker booking agency?

AAE Speakers Bureau is a full-service speaker booking agency, meaning we can completely manage the speaker’s or celebrity’s engagement with your organization from the time of booking your speaker through the event’s completion. We provide all of the services you need to host Salamishah Tillet or any other speaker of your choice, including offer negotiation, contractual assistance, accounting and billing, and event speaker travel and logistics services. When you book a speaker with us, we manage the process of hosting a speaker for you as an extension of your team. Our goal is to give our clients peace of mind and a best-in-class service experience when booking a speaker with us.
Why is AAE Speakers Bureau different from other booking agencies?

If you’re looking for the best, unbiased speaker recommendations, paired with a top-notch customer service experience, you’re in the right place. At AAE Speakers Bureau, we exclusively represent the interests of our clients - professional organizations, companies, universities, and associations. We intentionally do not represent the speakers we feature or book. That is so we can present our clients with the broadest and best performing set of speaker options in the market today, and we can make these recommendations without any obligation to promote a specific speaker over another. This is why when our agents suggest a speaker for your event, you can be assured that they are of the highest quality with a history of proven success with our other clients.

Salamishah Tillet is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics . The estimated speaking fee range to book Salamishah Tillet for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Salamishah Tillet generally travels from Newark, NJ, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Kristie Kennedy, Xernona Clayton, Amelia Rose Earhart, Tiffany Shlain and Sindi Somers. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Salamishah Tillet for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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