Inside the Activist's Study

Note: "Inside the Activist's Study" is scheduled to return in Spring 2012. Below is information from previous sessions, available for archival and informational purposes.

Fall 2010

Featuring Alan Khazei, co-founder of City Year and CEO of Be the Change Inc., and David Goodman, investigative reporter. This interview series brings together prominent journalists, actors, filmmakers, and a wide-array of activist leaders. The discussion will address engaged leadership skills and focus on how the promise of media can help bring about social change.
 
Sponsored by the Peace and Justice Studies and Communications and Media Studies programs.
Both events are free and open to the public. 
No tickets necessary: seats will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

November 8th, 2010 - 7 PM
Barnum Hall Room 008

Spring 2010

Featuring Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, and David Goodman, investigative reporter. This new series brings together prominent journalists, actors, filmmakers, and a wide-array of activist leaders. The Goodmans will have a lively interview and discussion centered on how the promise of media can help bring about social change.  Book signings to follow. 

Co-sponsored with the Communications and Media Studies Program.
Both events are free and open to the public. 
No tickets necessary: seats will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

March 9th, 2010
Interview Series Launch with
Amy Goodman & David Goodman
Click here for video coverage of the event

April 5th, 2010
Amy Goodman & Bill McKibben
Prominent climate change activist and founder of 350.org
Click here for video coverage of the event

Amy Goodman is an award-winning investigative journalist and syndicated columnist, author and the host of Democracy Now! , which airs on more than 800 public television/radio stations worldwide.   Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize' for "developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media."  The Independent of London named Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! "an inspiration"; pulsemedia.org placed Goodman at the top of their 20 Top Global Media Figures.  

Goodman is the author of four New York Times bestsellers.  Her latest book, Breaking the Sound Barrier, proves the power of independent journalism in the struggle for a better world.  She co-authored the first three bestsellers, Standing Up to the Madness, Static, and The Exception to the Rulers, with her brother, journalist David Goodman.

David Goodman is an award-winning independent journalist, a Contributing Writer for Mother Jones, and the author of seven books, including the New York Times bestsellers that he co-author with his sister Amy Goodman, Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back and The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them. He is also author of the critically acclaimed Fault Lines: Journeys Into the New South Africa (University of California Press, 2002).  David Goodman’s articles have also appeared in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Outside, Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, The Nation, and numerous other publications. Goodman has been a frequent guest on national radio and television shows, including PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Pacifica Radio, Democracy Now!, NPR's Fresh Air, Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, and CNN.

An American environmentalist and writer, Bill McKibben is the founder of 350.org, an international climate campaign.  McKibben is the author of a dozen books about the environment, including "The End of Nature" and the new volume "Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet."  Bill is a frequent contributor to various magazines including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Orion Magazine, Mother Jones, The New York Review of Books, Granta, Rolling Stone, and Outside. He is also a board member and contributor to Grist Magazine. In 2009, Bill McKibben's climate campaign, 350.org, organized what CNN called 'the most widespread day of political action in the planet's history.'