Agency, Courage, and Building #1000BlackGirlBooks

In this episode of Duke’s Life of Significance series, hosts Sanyin Siang and Pau Gasol interview Marley Dias, the sixteen-year-old founder of #1000BlackGirlBooks, a campaign to identify one thousand books with black girl protagonists. The movement, since its founding in 2015, has collected more than 13,000 books, now complied in a database. In this interview, Marley discusses intergenerational courage, community, and what it means to live a life of significance at any age, saying, “When it comes to living a life of significance, you can start at any point in your life. You don’t have to wait.”