Sonya Renee Taylor is the Founder and Radical Executive Officer of The Body is Not An Apology, a digital media and education company promoting radical self-love and body empowerment as the foundational tool for social justice and global transformation. Sonya’s work as a highly sought-after award-winning Performance Poet, activist, and transformational leader continues to have global reach. Sonya is a former National and International poetry slam champion, author of two books, including The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love (Berrett-Koehler Feb 2018), educator and thought leader who has enlightened and inspired organizations, audiences and individuals from board rooms to prisons, universities to homeless shelters, elementary schools to some of the biggest stages in the world.   

Talk and Q&A followed by book giveaway (in-person only). 

DEIB is committed to providing access to all of our events. Please contact MytriceAllen@ku.edu to request accommodations. Two weeks notice is preferred.

Sponsored by: the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging, the Emily Taylor Center for Women & Gender Equity, the Office of Multicultural Affairs, and the Center for Sexuality & Gender Diversity.