Rokhaya Diallo

09:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Opening session

Rokhaya Diallo is an award-winning French journalist, author and filmmaker recognized for her work in defense of human rights. She is a columnist for the Washington Post and a researcher at the Gender+Justice Initiative Research Center at Georgetown University (Washington). In France, she teaches cultural studies at Paris I-Sorbonne and is a columnist for television and radio. Rokhaya Diallo is the author of around ten books and comic strips and has directed several documentaries. With Grace Ly, she also created “Kiffe Ta Race” (Binge Audio), the first French-speaking podcast dedicated to racial issues and ranked among the best podcasts by Apple. In 2022, Rokhaya Diallo created W.O.R.D. the first school dedicated to public speaking with the aim of democratizing access to the public sphere.