The Power of Words featuring Michele Norris

Doors open at 5:00 p.m.
Appetizers, desserts, coffee, and cash bar available

6:00 p.m.
Keynote Address with Michele Norris, Peabody Award-winning journalist, founder of The Race Card Project and Executive Director of The Bridge, The Aspen Institute’s new program on race, identity, connectivity and inclusion. For more than a decade Norris served as a host of NPR's All Things Considered, where she interviewed world leaders, American presidents, Nobel laureates, leading thinkers, and groundbreaking artists. She has also produced in-depth profiles, interviews, and series for NPR News programs, as well as special reports for National Geographic, Time Magazine, ABC News, and Lifetime Television. Norris created The Race Card Project, an initiative to foster a wider conversation about race in America, after the publication of her family memoir, The Grace of Silence.

7:00 p.m.
Panel discussion with Michele Norris, moderated by Dr. LaDrina Wilson

This intelligent conversation made possible by
The Joyce and Tony Singh Family Foundation

Event Sponsors
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