MSNBC reporter and scholar Melissa Harris-Perry will speak Monday at Kansas University in connection with Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Harris-Perry’s lecture will cover sexual violence from a personal and broad-based perspective, looking at current trends and the role of race and privilege in understanding and addressing this issue, according to an announcement from KU.

Her lecture is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Lied Center, 1600 Stewart Ave. The event is free, and tickets are not needed. Harris-Perry is this year’s speaker for the Jana Mackey Distinguished Lecture Series, in memory of a women’s rights activist and KU law student who died in 2008.

A related campus program titled “Coming to the Table: What Can We Do to Make a Difference” is planned for noon-1 p.m. Tuesday in the Sabatini Multicultural Resource Center Classroom.

In addition to hosting MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry,” Perry is the Presidential Chair Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Wake Forest University and founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Center on Gender, Race, and Politics in the South. She has written two books: “Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought” and “Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America.”