ACRL announces its celebrated lineup of keynote speakers for the ACRL 2021 Conference, "Ascending Into an Open Future," to be held April 14- 17, 2021, in Seattle. Be challenged and inspired by ACRL's thought-provoking speakers, who also double as authors, researchers, educators, journalists, and data nerds. Tressie McMillan Cot-tom is an award-winning author, researcher, educator, and cultural critic, whose work has been recognized nationally and internationally for the urgency and depth of her incisive critical analysis of technology, higher education, class, race, and gender. The foundation for Cottom's first book, Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Proflt Colleges in the New Economy, was formed by dissertation research for her doctorate from Emory University's Laney Graduate School. In Lower Ed, she questions the fundamental narrative of American education policy. Carol Anderson calls Lower Ed, "nuanced, carefully argued, and engagingly written." In 2019, she released Thick and Other Essays. Thick was the winner of the Brooklyn Public library Literary Prize and was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award.
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