One of the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement, Patrisse Cullors, is joining the Boulder-based Motus Theater on Thursday evening to read the story of an undocumented immigrant.

Cullors is the latest prominent American to participate in “Shoebox Stories: UndocuAmerica.”

She will read the personal story of Armando Peniche and his experience with racial profiling and the dangers that  inflammatory rhetoric toward Mexican immigrants poses to him and his American-born son.

Cullors will be joined at 6 p.m. on Zoom by Afro-Latino musical theater star Carlos Heredia and slam poet Dominique Christina, who holds five national poetry slam titles, including winning the National Poetry Championship and two Women of the World Slam Championships.

The series’ programs are free. Register by clicking here.

The series’ first six episodes have featured, respectively, Colorado U.S. Reps. Joe Neguse and Jason Crow, actor John Lithgow, musicians Neil Young and Yo_Yo Ma, activist Gloria Steinem, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and celebrity chef José Andrés, who conservative commentator Ann Coulter called a “nut foreigner” in December over the New York chef’s request that the Biden administration create a U.S. hunger relief czar.

On March 11, the series will hear from Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo.

After Thursday night’s reading, Cullors and Peniche will talk about the stories of police brutality survivors, followed by a discussion with Nana Gyamfi, executive director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration, and Sydelle O’Brien, an undocumented Black activist.

This item was updated to include the date of the event.