Throughout Spring 2025, Pace University’s Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is hosting Days of Origin: a university-wide initiative offering the Pace Community, surrounding community members, and institutional partners an opportunity to engage in conversation about systems that divide and our individual roles in fostering humanity.

To kick-off the main week of events, Pace DEI and the Jacob Burns Film Center are partnering to screen the film, Origin, which is inspired by Isabel Wilkerson’s New York Times bestselling book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Writer and Director Ava DuVernay’s film adaptation of the book follows a fictionalized version of Isabel Wilkerson (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) as she investigates the global phenomenon of caste and its dark influence on society, facing unfathomable loss and uncovering the beauty of love and human resilience along the way.

This program is presented in partnership with Pace University.

Followed by a reception upstairs in the Jane Peck Gallery after the screening.