Lowell Lecture: Revolutionary Art with Paola Mendoza

Join us in person or over Zoom Webinar in celebration of Hispanic Heritage month as 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 changemaker, 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 can meet the speaker in the Connector Space located just outside of Rabb Hall.

This program will happen in-person and over Zoom Webinar. We plan to open doors twenty minutes in advance for our in-person audience.

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. Her work reflects an immigrant lens and sensibility that offers a different way to see the world. She exposes the inherent violence of overly determined structures of government, borders and unjust laws.

Paola Mendoza is joined by David Leonard, President of the Boston Public Library. David began working at the BPL in 2009, bringing with him a wealth of experience from the technology, management, and consulting fields.

This program is produced in partnership with the GBH Forum Network.

This program is part of the Lowell Lecture Series generously sponsored by the Lowell Institute through the Boston Public Library Fund.

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