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Emmy & Peabody Award-Winning Filmmaker, Literary Scholar, Journalist, Cultural Critic & Institution Builder | Alphonse Fletcher University Professor & Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University

Henry Louis Gates Speaking Fee: $75,000 to $100,000

Emmy & Peabody Award-Winning Filmmaker, Literary Scholar, Journalist, Cultural Critic & Institution Builder | Alphonse Fletcher University Professor & Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University

Speaker Profile Thumbnail for Henry Louis Gates
Speaking Fee:
$75,000 to $100,000

Travels From:
BOS - Boston, MA

Primary Topic Category:
Journalists / News Media / Global Outlook / Current Events

Secondary Topic Category:
African American & Black

 

Henry Louis Gates Speaker Profile: At A Glance

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is an acclaimed cultural critic and institution builder. Professor Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. He has also produced and hosted an array of documentary films. His latest history series for PBS is Making Black America: Through the Grapevine. Finding Your Roots, Gates’s groundbreaking genealogy and genetics series, is now in its tenth season on PBS. A consummate scholar and esteemed public intellectual, Professor Gates is a highly sought-after keynote speaker for his riveting addresses.

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