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Author Talk: Beautiful Country
Civil rights litigator and New York Times bestselling author QIAN JULIE WANG offers this riveting talk inspired by her debut memoir Beautiful Country, which The New York Times called, “an incandescent debut from an astonishing new talent.” Qian Julie balances her powerful personal narrative with authenticity and humor and leaves a lasting impact on audiences of all kinds.
DEI in Corporate and Educational Spaces
Civil rights litigator and New York Times bestselling author QIAN JULIE WANG uses her unique gift for storytelling to transcend the business, legal, political, and literary worlds and focus on the humanity at the heart of these issues. Qian Julie shares both her personal experience as well as actionable strategies in this compelling talk.
Finding a Home for Immigrants
Civil rights litigator and bestselling memoirist QIAN JULIE WANG shares insights from her personal experience as a young person immigrating to the U.S., as well as her career advocating for marginalized communities. Qian Julie offers this riveting talk about the power of finding ‘home’.
The Power of Lifelong Literacy and Storytelling
Civil rights litigator and bestselling memoirist QIAN JULIE WANG offers insights about the power of literacy and storytelling throughout childhood and adulthood in this meaningful talk for audiences of all kinds.
Qian Julie Wang knows stories are power – and there’s no story more powerful than the one you’re scared to tell
Through her impactful speaking engagements, QIAN JULIE WANG offers poignant insights about the power of storytelling. When she gave a spellbinding keynote for BookFest Opening Night Celebration at the Nantucket Book Festival, Qian Julie brought authenticity and humor. A profound speaker, the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Country: A Memoir delivers talks resonate across divisions and experiences. Whether she is touching on her childhood experience as an immigrant, her advocacy work through the law, or the role literature plays in our lives, Qian Julie offers unmatched insights about how the act of sharing stories – especially the ones we are scared to tell – creates connections that transform our world.
At the Nantucket Book Festival, Qian Julie received thunderous applause for what the organizers are calling “the best speech they’ve had in all 10 years of the festival.” In all her events, Qian Julie creates a memorable talk tailored to the audience, consistently receiving rave reviews.
Watch Qian Julie Wang’s keynote at the Nantucket Book Festival >>
Bestselling author Qian Julie Wang leverages business acumen and legal expertise in her advocacy work as a civil rights litigator
Bestselling author and civil rights litigator QIAN JULIE WANG brings a unique and uplifting perspective to conversations about advocacy work and building a mission-driven business. Through her experience as a young person immigrating to the U.S., which she detailed in her New York Times bestselling memoir Beautiful Country, Wang fell in love with the law by reading books about Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thurgood Marshall. Their stories showed her that she did not need to be white or a man to succeed, and she began to dream about fighting her way into the law to tell the stories of her community, too.
As a litigator, she has been praised as “exceptionally talented” and “exemplary,” representing Fortune 500 companies, government entities, and individuals in complex litigation. She is a Founder and Managing Partner at Gottlieb & Wang LLP – a legal practice dedicated to advocating for marginalized communities’ education and discrimination rights. In compelling talks, she shares both her legal expertise as well as her experience in business building a company that is about more than just doing a job.
Qian Julie has offered riveting talks for the Washington State Community Action Partnership, Squire Patton Boggs LLP, Sentara Healthcare, Datadog, Goodwin LLP, among many others.
‘Beautiful Country’ author Qian Julie Wang moves audiences with her spellbinding storytelling in powerful keynotes
When civil rights litigator and celebrated author QIAN JULIE WANG spoke with the Harry Walker team last month, we experienced what audiences have been raving about for countless events. The New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Country shared with our captivated audience how her memoir came to be. Written on the subway, on her phone, commute after commute, Qian Julie unearthed her childhood wounds and illuminated experiences shared by so many undocumented children in their families’ pursuit of the American Dream. In rediscovering her childhood self, she began a healing process made possible by the exploration of her past. In spellbinding keynote speeches, Qian Julie humanizes experiences that may not be personal to the audience, building a bridge through storytelling to greater understanding and a sense of community.
As a child, she was inspired by condensed biographies of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thurgood Marshall, eventually becoming a renowned civil rights litigator with her own practice with her husband. Beyond her impactful work, which focuses on education and discrimination rights for marginalized communities, Qian Julie shares a powerful message of strength, passion, and patriotism with audiences of all kinds. She left our team at HWA with one of her universal beliefs: healing yourself is the best thing you can do for the world. We aren’t the only ones stunned by her inspiring keynotes, Qian Julie regularly receives glowing praise, such as this review from the Museum of the City of New York: “Thanks to Qian Julie for a tremendous program last night. She gave such a beautifully crafted, powerful talk that had the audience alternatively chuckling, nodding, wiping their eyes, and occasionally even startled… Qian Julie is a supremely talented writer and thinker, and I am sure she will continue to challenge the world with her sharp and nuanced insights. And she couldn’t have been nicer and more gracious to staff and guests and trustees alike.”
Watch Qian Julie Wang’s event with the Museum of the City of New York >>
Qian Julie Wang is a litigator and the author of Beautiful Country. Beautiful Country was released in 2021 and became an instant New York Times bestseller. Lauded as an “essential book for our times” and named one of the New York Times Book Review’s Notable Books of 2021, Beautiful Country is a poignant and heartrending literary memoir that intimately retraces Qian Julie’s childhood footsteps where at age seven, she moved from China to Brooklyn, New York with her parents, and overnight went from being the daughter of professors to being deemed “illegal.” With an open heart and a strong passion for advocacy and bringing awareness to marginalized communities, she uses her unique gift for storytelling to transcend the business, legal, political, and literary worlds and focus on the humanity at the heart of these issues.
As a litigator, Qian Julie has been praised by clients as "exceptionally talented" and "exemplary.” For a decade, she has represented Fortune 500 corporations, governmental entities, and individuals in complex civil litigation. Qian Julie is now a managing partner at Gottlieb & Wang LLP and is dedicated to advocating for marginalized communities' education and discrimination rights.
Qian Julie is a graduate of Yale Law School and Swarthmore Colleges. Her short pieces have appeared in major publications, including The New York Times and The Washington Post. Qian Julie currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their two rescue dogs, Salty and Peppers.
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