Tonika Lewis Johnson, Amanda Williams, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Housing Justice
  • Arts and Culture
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation MacArthur Fellows Program

Tonika Lewis Johnson, Amanda Williams, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Housing Justice

The MacArthur Fellows in conversation
Saturday, Apr 18, 2026 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm CTRamova Theatre
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About the Event:

This Fair Housing Month, join us for an illuminating conversation on housing and racial inequality in Chicago and across the country with social justice artist Tonika Lewis Johnson, visual artist Amanda Williams, and author Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. Led by National Public Housing Museum Executive Director Lisa Lee, these three MacArthur Fellows will discuss how their work, individually and collectively, helps us better understand the systemic discrimination that permeates our country and how art and activism together can move us toward justice.


This event is supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation as part of a year-long celebration of the 45th anniversary of the MacArthur Fellows program.

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Tonika Lewis Johnson

Tonika Lewis Johnson

Tonika Lewis Johnson is a visual artist and photographer from Chicago’s South Side Englewood neighborhood. Her artistic practice e...

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Amanda Williams

Amanda Williams

Amanda Williams is an artist who uses ideas around color and architecture to explore the intersection of race and the built enviro...

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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a scholar of anti-Black racism, public policy, Black politics, radical politics and social movements. S...

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Lisa Yun Lee

Lisa Yun Lee

Lisa Yun Lee (BA, Bryn Mawr College, Ph.D, Duke University) is a cultural activist and the executive director of the National Publ...

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