Keynote Addresses & Speaking Engagements
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Lisa Bowleg, PhD, MA is the Inspiring Speaker for Your Event
Professor Bowleg, Founder and CEO of the Intersectionality Training Institute reframes how people and organizations understand health and workplace inequities, and the types of transformative strategies needed to reduce and eliminate them.
An internationally renowned intersectionality and health equity scholar, researcher, applied social psychologist, and entrepreneur, Professor Bowleg’s multidisciplinary work bridges public health and applied social and health psychology.
Through her trainings and talks, Professor Bowleg deftly applies and translates intersectionality research and scholarship to help:
- healthcare systems, physicians, nurses and other health care providers reduce health inequities;
- social and behavioral science researchers conduct more impactful health equity research; and
- workplaces transform organizational culture and implement structural equity strategies.
Professor Bowleg’s innovative work on intersectionality is highly regarded, and widely published and cited. Her 2012 article, “The Problem with the Phrase Women and Minorities: Intersectionality — an Important Theoretical Framework for Public Health ” ranks as one of the top three most cited articles in the American Journal of Public Health.
From national professional association conferences to academic colloquia, and from physician, nurse, and other health care provider audiences to interdisciplinary forums, her presentations are incisive, accessible, and unforgettable.
The Transformative Power of Intersectionality for Health and Workplace Equity
If you’re seeking an engaging speaker who combines intellectual depth with critical theoretical and empirical fluency, one who leaves audiences inspired, informed, and ready to take transformative action, Professor Bowleg’s is the voice you want on the main stage.
Professor Bowleg in high demand as a virtual and in-person speaker. Her compelling keynotes and presentations challenge audiences to think differently and critically about problems such as health inequities and workplace inequalities, and take transformative action to address them.
Her engagements have included:
- “The Transformative Power of Intersectionality: What Business Leaders Need to Know and Do to Promote Culturally and Racially Marginalized (CARM) Women into Executive Leadership,” Invited keynote to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, NY, March 2026
- “It’s Gendered Racism, not Just Racism: What We Miss When We Focus on Black Women Living with Cancer through the Single-Axis Prism of Racism,” Invited keynote to Cierra Sisters Research Training Graduation, Seattle, WA (virtual) March 2026
- “The Fundamental Intersectional Attribution Error: What Business Leaders Miss When they Ignore Power and Intersecting Structural Oppression for CARM Women in the Workplace,” Invited keynote to Diversity Council of Australia, June 2026
- “The Transformative Power of Intersectional Thinking and Why U.S. Psychology Needs to Get More Critical (and Fast!),” Invited keynote to the American Psychological Association 2026 Convention, Washington, DC, August 2026
- “A Framework for Applied Intersectionality Research (FAIR): An Important Guide for Intersectionality Researchers, Invited (virtual) keynote to Methodological Innovations in Intersectional Research International Workshop, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, October 2026
- Intersectional Logics Intersectionality: An Important Distinction in an Era of Social Inequity, "Thinking Social Inequalities in the Age of Intersectionality: An Interdisciplinary Approach," Conference, Université Paris 8, Paris, France, November 2026.
Dr. Bowleg's most recent speaking engagement was at the seventieth session of the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from in March 2026.
