About Stacy Schiff: Stacy Schiff is the author of Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupéry, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, winner of the George Washington Book Prize and the Ambassador Book Award; Cleopatra: A Life, winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for biography; and most recently, The Witches: Salem, 1692. Schiff has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and named a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by the French Government, she lives in New York City.
Old South Meeting House
Robert Costa, chief election and campaign correspondent for CBS News. David Gergen, senior political analyst at CNN and a White House adviser to four presidents.
John F. Kennedy Library
David Paleologos, Director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center and Latoyia Edwards, Emmy award-winning anchor on NBC10 Boston and NECN.
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Dr. Fiamma Straneo, Professor of Oceans and Climate and co-director of the Scripps Polar Center at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego
New England Aquarium
Linda Villarosa
Boston College - Gasson 100
Jason Blazakis
Boston Public Library - Rabb Lecture Hall
Matthew Desmond
Boston College - Gasson 100
Prof. Jaimie D. Crumley, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Division and Ethnic Studies Division, University of Utah
Suffolk University Law School
Tara Kangarlou is an award-winning global affairs journalist who has previously worked with news outlets such as NBC, CNN, CNN International, and Al Jazeera America. She is a frequent on-air contributor for various international news outlets covering the MENA region and global affairs and writes regularly for TIME magazine as well as other news platforms. She has also spent much time covering the rise and fall of ISIS, the conflicts in Syria and Iraq, as well as other pressing humanitarian issues worldwide. Born out of her extensive reporting and firsthand knowledge of the global refugee crisis, in 2016, she founded Art of Hope, the first American nonprofit that strictly focuses on supporting the mental well-being of war-torn refugees and IDPs in vulnerable host communities. She is also the author of the award-winning book "The Heartbeat of Iran", which is the first book available to the western audience that provides an unprecedented insight into the many nuances, textures, and complexities of real life in today's Iran - as told through the stories of ordinary people living inside the country. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service teaching at the intersection of journalism and public diplomacy. Tara was born and raised in Tehran, Iran until she moved to the States in her late teens. At the moment, she splits her time between London and Washington. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature from UCLA and a Master’s Degree in Journalism from USC. Copies of Ms. Kangarlou's book, The Art of Hope, will be available for purchase and signing after the program.
Boston Public Library - Rabb Lecture Hall
Suzanne Simard
Boston College - Gasson 100
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