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Tell Me About Your Son: Empathy and Resilience While Reporting War. Grantee and PBS NewsHour foreign affairs correspondent Nick Schifrin will visit the University of Richmond on Tuesday, April 11th. Schifrin will visit classrooms and give a talk entitled "Tell Me About Your Son: Empathy and Resilience While Reporting War." Schifrin will reflect on his experiences covering war and conflict in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, South America, and more recently, Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Refreshments will be served. The visit is sponsored by the Journalism Department and International Education Department at the University of Richmond, a Pulitzer Center Campus Consortium partner. This in-person event is open to the public.
RIN Fellow Andrew Lehren Will Speak About Deforestation at Flagler College. On Tuesday, March 7, 2023, Andrew W. Lehren will speak on “Deforestation: Its Impact on You and What You Can Do About It” as part of Flagler College’s Forum on Government and Public Policy series. Lehren is a senior editor on the NBC News investigations team and a Pulitzer Center Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) Fellow. As a RIN Fellow, Lehren has reported on how products by Tesla, Toyota, Adidas, and others have contributed to the destruction of tropical rainforests. He has published three RIN projects so far: Philippine Forests Pushed to the Brink of Destruction, Supply Chains: The Tropical Forests Connected to the Largest Consumer Markets on the Planet, and Deforestation and the Global Supply Chain. His latest Pulitzer Center-supported reporting combines satellite imagery analysis and large datasets with on-the-ground reporting to examine whether corporate and government promises are being k
'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
Carceral Injustice: On the Stage & On the Page. Image On Thursday, August 25, please join the Pulitzer Center in partnership with MUSE and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts for a conversation about the U.S. carceral system and the panelists’ work to shed light on its injustices. The panel at UNCSA will feature playwright Sarah Shourd and actors Anthony Jefferson and John Neblett from The BOX End of Isolation Tour, as well as Phoebe Zerwick, author of Beyond Innocence: The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt. The End of Isolation Tour is bringing live performances of The BOX across the country. The BOX is a play about the loneliness, sensory deprivation, and torture of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons. The tour aims to enact political change and engage people to promote healing through drama and artistic ritual. The tour will stop in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, August 25-27. Learn more and buy tickets for the performances here! Speakers: Playwright and Pulitz