On Wednesday, November 30, Professor Seth Weinberger will be hosting the last Council on Foreign Relation’s conference call of the semester, from 9:00 – 10:00 AM in WY 226. The topic of this call is female entrepreneurship in Afghanistan, and the speaker will be Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, CFR's fellow and deputy director of the Women and Foreign Policy program.
Prior to joining CFR, Ms. Lemmon covered public policy and emerging markets for the global investment firm PIMCO, after working for nearly a decade as a journalist and producer with the ABC News political unit and "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." Her first book, "The Dressmaker of Khair Khana," a New York Times bestseller, tells the true story of a young Afghan entrepreneur whose business created jobs and hope for the women in her Kabul neighborhood during the Taliban years. Ms. Lemmon's work on women entrepreneurs in conflict and postconflict regions has appeared in the "Financial Times," "International Herald Tribune," and "Christian Science Monitor," as well as on multiple websites such as the "New York Times Global Edition," CNN.com, "Daily Beast," and "Huffington Post."
Please RSVP to Professor Weinberger (sweinberger@pugetsound.edu) if you would like to attend.
