Traveling While Black: Black Women on Identity, Travel, Belonging and Finding Home.

What does it mean for Black women to search for home across cities, countries, memories, relationships, and within ourselves? In this intimate and expansive conversation, memoirist and filmmaker Ebony Walden and poet and essayist Chet'la Sebree explore movement not simply as geography, but as emotional and spiritual terrain. Through memoir, poetry, and personal storytelling, both writers reflect on identity, belonging, creativity, rest, freedom, and the ways travel and movement can transform how we see ourselves and the world around us.

Moderated by Dr. Princess “Franny” Francois, known as Franny the Traveler, is an award-winning educator, author, speaker documenting her journey across all 50 U.S. states and 50 countries by age 50. This conversation bridges literary reflection, cultural storytelling, and lived experience. 

The session will begin with brief readings from both authors, followed by a moderated discussion and audience Q&A exploring Black womanhood, memory, home, transformation, and what it means to…