Renee Montgomery: WNBA Players Speaking Out on Social Injustice
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Renee Montgomery is a former WNBA player for the Atlanta Dream, the team she is now part-owner of. She won national championships with the UConn Huskies in 2009, and with the Minnesota Lynx in 2015 and 2017. In June of 2020, Montgomery announced that she would forgo the 2020 WNBA season to focus on social injustice.
Renee Montgomery discusses how and why the WNBA has been one of the leading sports leagues in the social justice movement.
This is a clip from our second Sports Can Battle Racism Webinar held in July 2020. You can view the entire recording here.
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