The Boston Public Library welcomes Paola Mendoza as a speaker for the Lowell Lecture Series. As a Latinx film director, best-selling author, and film director, Mendoza will speak to the BPL community about her own experience as a community organizer and change-maker, sharing her personal journey.
Mendoza will be in conversation with BPL President David Leonard and in addition to her film and activism work, she'll discuss her work as an author and will sign copies of her books at the end of the program. Mendoza’s talk on her life as an activist, artist and leader contributes to the library’s organizational artistic theme of Revolutionary Art.
After the main program, in-person audience members are invited to meet the speaker.
Paola Mendoza is a Latinx artist, film director, author, and cultural organizer. She co-founded the Women's March and served as its Artistic Director. She has organized creative actions across the country and is a bestselling author of the books Sanctuary, and the New York Times bestseller "Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World". Mendoza uses art to disrupt and disarm, to change our thinking and to advance movements for immigrants, women, and reproductive justice.
President of the Boston Public Library, leads the 170-year old institution, one of Boston’s great educational, cultural and civic treasures. David began working at the BPL in 2009, bringing a wealth of experience from the technology, management and consulting fields.
