Transgender actress Laverne Cox, best known for her role in the popular Netflix series “Orange Is the New Black,” is scheduled to speak on the University of Colorado’s Boulder campus at the same time as conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos on Jan. 25.

Cox, who in 2014 received an Emmy nomination in the “outstanding guest actress in a comedy series” category, is a transgender advocate who regularly speaks about “moving beyond gender expectations to live more authentically,” according to her website.

She has received numerous other awards for acting and for her work as an LGBTQ advocate. Cox is the first transgender woman of color to be cast in a leading role in a mainsteam television show and was the first transgender woman to appear on the cover of Time magazine. She was also one of Glamour magazine’s 2014 Women of the Year.

Doors will open at 6:30 and Cox’s talk, which is titled ” Ain’t I A Woman: My Journey to Womanhood,” will begin at 7:30 p.m. Audience members will be able to ask her questions after her speech.

Members of the public can purchase tickets for $20 on the Macky Auditorium website.

CU students and employees can purchase tickets for Cox’s appearance starting at 10:30 a.m. Jan. 18 on the first floor the University Memorial Center. Student tickets are $2 and employee tickets are $10. Tickets will be sold from 10:30 to 3 p.m. from Jan. 18 to Jan. 25, or until they sell out.

According to a CU memo about the event, student groups had been talking about bringing Cox to campus for months.

Cox’s talk in Macky Auditorium on the Boulder campus overlaps with a talk being given at the same time by Yiannopoulos in CU’s Mathematics Building.

Students, faculty and community members have expressed concern about Yiannopoulos’ visit to campus. Yiannopoulos, who is gay, is an editor for the “alt-right” website Breitbart News. He was permanently banned from Twitter for inciting racist abuse against actress Leslie Jones.

“Alt-right” is an offshoot of conservatism that has been described as mixing racism, white nationalism and populism.

During visits to other campuses, Yiannopoulos singled out a transgender woman and poked fun at a professor by using the label “Fat (Expletive).”

Ahead of a visit to Columbia University, he threatened to dress in drag to portray Emma Sulkowicz, the alumna who carried a mattress around campus after she was sexually assaulted. He told Politico that her rape claim was fake. The visit to Columbia was later postponed because of a scheduling conflict.

Earlier this week, a group of faculty members and students announced that a “BuffsUnited” event that will also take place the same day as Yiannopoulos’ visit. That event, which is being held in Old Main, will take place from 5 to 7 p.m., with the first 100 attendees getting a free ticket to see Cox that evening.

Yiannopoulos’ visit is being organized by the CU College Republicans and the CU chapter of Turning Point USA, a national conservative activism group. In December, a campus spokesman told the Daily Camera that the student groups had not yet requested university funding for the Yiannopoulos event, but that they may request funding in January.

Cox’s talk is being organized by the Cultural Events Board and the Distinguished Speakers Board, two student-run boards funded by student fees. The boards have brought speakers to campus such as George Takei, Steve Wozniak, Rudy Giuliani, Karl Rove, Howard Dean and Buzz Aldrin.

Cox will receive $52,500 for her visit. That money comes from student fees and ticket sales, according to campus spokesman Ryan Huff.

Sarah Kuta: 303-473-1106, kutas@dailycamera.com or twitter.com/sarahkuta