CANTON -- St. Lawrence University will host Mwenda Katwiwa, a New Orleans based spoken word/slam poetry performer and St. Lawrence University Kenya Semester Program alumna (Fall 2012), who will perform from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 10, in Eben Holden.

Born in Kenya and popularly known as FreeQuency, Katwiwa is an anti-racist and reproductive justice organizer who has spent most of her life living and writing at the intersection of arts, education and activism. She has published articles in The Grio, For Harriet, the Feminist Majority Foundation’s Campus Leadership Network and is a founding member of the New Orleans chapter of the Black Youth Project 100.

Katwiwa graduated from Tulane University and is an accomplished spoken word/poetry slam performer. Her work includes the intersection between the arts, education and activism. In addition to writing and performing poetry, Mwenda is a blogger and is very active in her community.

To learn more about Katwiwa, visit www.freequencyspeaks.com.

For more information about her visit, visit www.stlawu.edu/global-studies or call at 229-7419.