Closed for Democracy: How Mass School Closure Undermines the Citizenship of Black Americans took place on October 29, 2025.

Dr. Sally Nuamah presented her latest book, Closed for Democracy: How Mass School Closure Undermines the Citizenship of Black Americans (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Closed for Democracy was the recipient of three 2023 American Political Science Association (APSA) Best Book awards, recipient of the W.E.B Dubois Distinguished book award and named a finalist for the PROSE award in politics.

Dr. Sally Afia Nuamah is a professor, advocate, writer and filmmaker. She has held positions at several universities including the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Princeton and Duke University. Currently, Dr. Nuamah is a professor at Northwestern university. Dr. Nuamah is the author of the multi-award-winning books, How Girls Achieve and Closed for Democracy. She is also the creator of the film, HerStory, and the founder of the Twii Foundation, which provides scholarships for girls to be the first in their families to go to college. For her work, Dr. Nuamah has been awarded over thirty honors including Forbes Magazine ’30 under 30′ award and the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, aka “the Brainy Award.”