Archive: 2014-2015 Intellectual Theme: Justice
Community Learning Day Keynote Lecture by Wes Moore
Kendall Hall, Main Auditorium, October 8, 2014
12:00-1:20 PM
The College of New Jersey
Wes Moore is a Rhodes Scholar and an Army combat veteran. As a White House Fellow, he worked as a special assistant to Secretary Condoleezza Rice at the State Department. He was a featured speaker at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, was named one of Ebony magazine’s Top 30 Leaders Under 30 (2007), and, most recently, was dubbed one of the top young business leaders in New York by Crain’s New York Business. He works in New York City, and is the author of this year’s Summer Reading selection at TCNJ: The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates.
Sponsored by the Cultural and Intellectual Community Program Council (CICPC), the New Jersey Council for the Humanities (NJCH), School of Business, School of Engineering, & School of Humanities & Social Sciences
Archive: 2013-2014 Intellectual Theme: Constructing the Past
Community Learning Day Keynote Lecture by Jonathan M. Katz
Kendall Hall, Main Auditorium, October 2, 2013
12:00-1:20 PM
The College of New Jersey
Jonathan M. Katz is the 2010 recipient of the medill Medal for Courage in Journalism and the 2012 winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for The Big Truck That Went By. He wrote and edited for the Associated Press for seven years, three and a half of which he spent as a correspondent in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Katz has also reported from the Dominican Republic, China, Israel, the West Bank, Washington, New York, Mexico, and around the Caribbean. He is a graduate of Northwestern University.
Sponsored by the Cultural and Intellectual Community Program Council, Liberal Learning, the School of Business, the School of Engineering, the School of Nursing, Health & Exercise Science, the School of Science, and the TCNJ Library.