Conference Keynote
—First Speaker Announcement—
Ijeoma Oluo (ee-joh-mah oh-loo-oh)
Bigger Ideas Conference™ 2026 brings together voices shaping business, culture, and leadership.
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Bonus: The first 30 people to register receive a complimentary signed copy of the book by the author, Ijeoma Oluo.
Author of the #1 New York Times bestselling first book, So You Want To Talk About Race, Mediocre, and Be a Revolution.
Ijeoma Oluo is a Seattle-based Writer, Speaker and Internet Yeller. Her work on social issues such as race and gender has been published in The Guardian, Esquire, Washington Post, ELLE Magazine, New York Times, NBC News and more.
She has been featured on The Daily Show, All Things Considered, BBC News, and more. Her #1 NYT bestselling first book, So You Want To Talk About Race, was released January 2018 with Seal Press. Her second book, MEDIOCRE: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, was published December 2020 with Seal Press and her newest book, Be A Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World - and How You Can Too, was released January 2024 with Harper One.
Ijeoma was named one of the Most Influential People in Seattle by Seattle Magazine, one of the 50 Most Influential Women in Seattle by Seattle Met, one of The Root's 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2017 & 2018, and is the recipient of the Feminist Humanist Award 2018 by the American Humanist Association, the Harvard Humanist of the year 2020, the Media Justice Award by the Gender Justice League, and the 2018 Aubrey Davis Visionary Leadership Award by the Equal Opportunity Institute.
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