As many of you are no doubt aware, the death of the Ambassador last September became, as one of his family members put it, "a political football," especially in the heat of the debates leading up to the election. The Ambassador's family was deliberate in avoiding judgment and chose, collectively, to channel their grief into advocacy for deeper knowledge and understanding about the Middle East, North Africa, and the relations of these regions and the United States. The Ambassador Chris Stevens Memorial Lecture by Robin Wright seeks to do just that.
More information about the event can also be found at:
http://www.plu.edu/wang-center/AmbassadorMemorialLecture/home
More about Robin Wright
As stated in her press kit, Robin Wright has reported from more than 140 countries on six continents for The Washington Post, the LA Times, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, TIME, The Atlantic, The Sunday Times of London, CBS News, Foreign Affairs and many others. Her foreign tours include the Middle East, Europe, Africa and several years as a roving correspondent worldwide. She has covered dozens of wars and several revolutions. Until 2008, she covered U.S. foreign policy for the Washington Post. Wright has been a fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as well as Yale, Duke, Stanford, and the University of California.
A recipient of the prestigious U.N. Gold Medal, the National Magazine Award for reportage from Iran in The New Yorker and of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation grant, Ms. Wright lectures extensively around the United States and has been a television commentator on morning and evening news programs including ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and MSNBC as well as "Meet the Press," "Face the Nation,""This Week.""Nightline,""PBS Newshour,” “Frontline,”"Charlie Rose,""Washington Week in Review," and "Anderson Cooper 360," among many others.
