One of TIME Magazine’s 12 New Faces of Black Leadership, Brittany Packnett, will be speaking Monday in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union. Packnett, a former teacher, non-profit executive director, and Fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics; is also a co-founder of Campaign Zero. Campaign Zero, is a platform founded on the basis of ending police violence.

Packnett is the author of the book, “We Are Like Those Who Dream, with One World,” and has become a voice of social-change, policy and empowerment.

“Her voice is going to be making a difference for years to come,” said Former President Barack Obama in a 2016 speech about Packnett.

She was praised at the 2018 BET Awards as “one of the fiercest activists of our time.”

Packnett is known as an activist, educator and writer to many. She has become a leader within culture and justice for black women everywhere. Her lecture will be the final lecture of the 2019 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Series Keynote. Her lecture is entitled, “The Power of Knowing Your Purpose,” and will begin at 7 p.m.