Tuesday, February 14, 2012
7:00 p.m. at University of North Florida, University Center
Directions to UNF, link here.
Link here for a map of the campus so you can find the University Center.
Important: Doors open at 6:50. Introductions at 7:00. Please be at the University Center no later than 6:30 so we can all enter together.
*****Tuesday, Feb. 14 - Meet in front of the Flagler Gym at 5:15. We are leaving campus at 5:25. I have extra tickets if you decide to join us. *****
Sheryl WuDunn, the first Asian-American reporter to win a Pulitzer Prize, is a best-selling author, business executive and lecturer. Currently, she is a senior managing director at Mid-Market Securities, an investment banking boutique serving growth companies in the middle market, including companies founded and run by women. She is also president of TripleEdge, a social investing consultancy. Ms. WuDunn is co-author of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a New York Times best-selling book about the challenges facing women around the globe. It has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Colbert Report and many other network television shows. Ms. WuDunn also helped launch the Half the Sky multi-media effort to create a thoughtful, effective philanthropic strategy that includes an online social action campaign, a documentary series and a television special.
With her husband, Nicholas D. Kristof, she has co-authored two other best-selling books about Asia: Thunder from the East and China Wakes. Ms. WuDunn won a Pulitzer Prize with her husband for covering China, along with the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement. She has also won other journalism prizes, including the George Polk Award and Overseas Press Club Awards. Ms. WuDunn was honored for Half the Sky in 2010 with the Beacon Award from the White House Project, a nonpartisan organization that seeks to advance women’s leadership in all communities and sectors.
This lecture is co-hosted by UNF and the World Affairs Council of Jacksonville's Global Issues Evenings.
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