Journalist Vince Beiser Will Explore the ‘Real Costs of Green Energy’. On Wednesday, November 16, 2022, at Davidson College, journalist Vince Beiser will delve into his latest Pulitzer Center-supported project, The Real Costs of Green Energy, an investigation into how the shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy is, while unquestionably necessary, also causing serious damage to people and the planet and what we can do about it. Beiser is an award-winning journalist and author of the book The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How it Transformed Civilization. The book, translated into five languages, was a finalist for a 2019 PEN America Award and a California Book Award. It also led to a TEDx talk. Beiser’s next book project is Power Metal, about the trillion-dollar global scramble for the rare metals we need to transition to a world run on renewable energy and the human and environmental damage that may come with it. He has exposed conditions in California's harshes
The Talk: Jesse Ryan Visits Westchester Community College. On November 9, 2022, grantee Jesse Ryan visits Campus Consortium partner Westchester Community College to share her Pulitzer Center-supported project The Talk with students. While on campus, Ryan will visit WCC’s Documentary Video and News Reporting classes and collaborate with students at The Viking News. Ryan is a filmmaker and product manager who is passionate about exploring stories and solutions beneath the surface. She enjoys using traditional and emerging formats to create impactful and engaging experiences. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, The Washington Post, USA Today, and The Salt Lake Tribune. She has spoken about innovations in digital media at The Broadcast Educators Association and Augmented World Expo. Ryan is a graduate of Lafayette College and the University of Southern California.
'Bring Them Home' - Film Screening and Conversation. What happens when one country takes another country’s citizen hostage? What can families do? What are their lives like as they fight for the freedom of loved ones? Join the Pulitzer Center and Huston-Tillotson University on Wednesday, October 26, for an exploration of these issues with journalist Kate Woodsome of The Washington Post and freelance film editor Katrina De Vera, who worked together on Bring Them Home. Americans Emad Shargi and his wife, Bahareh, were enjoying the freedom of being empty-nesters and visiting Iran, where they were born, while their daughters attended college. Then Iranian officials arrested and imprisoned Emad on bogus espionage charges. The film explores how his wife and daughters were forced into unlikely roles in their efforts to secure his release, finding the strength to navigate Iran’s authoritarian system and U.S. politics as their husband and father became a pawn in negotiations over
Grantees Amie Ferris-Rotman and Zahra Joya Discuss Afghan Women Refugees. Join grantees Amie Ferris-Rotman and Zahra Joya for a live webinar to discuss their reporting on Afghan women refugees. Ferris-Rotman and Joya co-led the cross-borders collaboration “Far From Home,” a TIME magazine cover story about the women who fled Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover of Kabul in August 2021. Amie Ferris-Rotman is a British-American journalist who was previously the Reuters senior correspondent in Afghanistan, where she started Sahar Speaks, a training, mentoring, and publishing program for Afghan female reporters. She is now the global news editor at New Lines Magazine, and has also held positions at The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and The Wall Street Journal. Zahra Joya is an Afghan journalist who founded her own news agency, Rukhshana Media, to give a voice to Afghan women domestically and globally. She is a TIME magazine Woman of the Year and the winner of the Gates Foundation