The CLE hosts first Visiting Scholars Speaker Series & Community Networking Conference on Monday, March 24, 4-8pm Farrell Hall

The Wake Forest Center for Literacy Education is hosting its first Visiting Scholars Speaker Series and Community Networking Conference on Monday, March 24, 2025. The event is free and open to the public. It will take place from 4:00 to 8:00 pm in Farrell Hall on the campus of Wake Forest.

The theme of this year’s conference is “A Gun is Not Fun: Strategies to Keep Children Safe from Gun Violence.” Speakers will engage in conversation about gun violence prevention strategies with a specific focus on our community’s youngest learners with connections to areas such as health literacy, information literacy, early literacy, and family literacy.

Featuring William Electric Black, aka Ian Ellis James, a seven-time Emmy Award winning writer for his work on Sesame Street and current faculty member at NYU’s Tisch School.

To learn more about Electric’s work: “How the Arts Can Help Children Think about Gun Violence” (NPR).