Ashley Judd to Keynote Radical Change Banquet on October 16
Scarritt Bennett Center is excited to announce that Ashley Judd has agreed to be the Keynote speaker for our Radical Change Banquet on Thursday, October 16.
Judd is an American Feminist Social Justice Humanitarian, author, and actor. Her first film, Ruby in Paradise, in 1993, was awarded the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize. Her decades-long film and Broadway career stems from her roots in eastern Kentucky and Middle Tennessee. She is the Global Goodwill Ambassador to the United Nations Agency for Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights, & is a Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Women and Public Policy Program for the second time.
“My Mamaw was Methodist. Church with her is one of my most precious childhood memories, and she formed my ethics. Jesus’ stories daily inform and sustain my own sense of self and global care,” said Ashley Judd. “Whether I am in a brothel or in nature, contemplation and action (when I am at my best), shape how I show up in healing, growth, mercy, justice, and most of all, hope.”
Her devotion is to the lived realities of girls and women’s lives, always striving to make visible the invisible and overlooked. The practical and spiritual dimensions of people’s stories are her grounding for informing public discourse and policy. In this way, Ashley shared her own story about Harvey Weinstein’s serial sexual predation and was honored as Time Magazine’s Person of the Year as a Silence Breaker. More importantly, with her advocacy and public vulnerability, she made a difference in girls’ and women’s lives.
“I am floored to be included in Scarritt Bennett’s Radical Change evening. The rigor, perseverance, grace, and gentleness of Scarritt Bennett make it a powerful and holy place for me,” Judd adds about how she feels about Scarritt Bennett Center. “The centering and integration of girls and women of color in justice and healing is a space in which I am committed to listen and learn.”
We are honored to feature Ashley Judd at the Radical Change Banquet because her work closely aligns with our tenets of women’s empowerment, racial justice, transformative education, and spiritual growth.
Visit Ashley Judd’s website.
Event Details
- What: Radical Change Banquet featuring Ashley Judd & 2025 Tower of Justice Awards
- When: Thursday, October 16, 2025
- 6:00 pm Laskey Great Hall doors open.
- 6 pm. VIP Meet & Greet Reception with Ashley Judd in Bennett Hall, cost of $250 includes the Meet & Greet and the Banquet..
- 7:00 p.m. Program
- Where: Scarritt Bennett Center, 1027 18th Ave. S., Nashville, TN 37212
- Theme: Journey Inward, Journey Outward: Towards Hope, Peace & Justice
- Sponsorships & Info: Visit scarrittbennett.org or contact Jenean Davis, Director of Sales & Development at jdavis@scarrittbennett.org
Reserve your spot now! Radical Change Banquet tickets are on a first-come, first-served basis.
About Scarritt Bennett Center
Scarritt Bennett Center is a nonprofit conference, retreat, and education center in Nashville, TN. Our mission is to create space where individuals and groups engage each other to achieve a more just world. For nearly 40 years, Scarritt Bennett Center has been dedicated to our core values of radical hospitality, eradication of racism, prophetic justice, empowerment of women, transformative education, spiritual enrichment, and sacred rituals.
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