Austin College GO! Forum Posey Leadership Award Presentation & Seminar with Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

March 21, 2016 - March 22, 2016

Hosted by the Austin College GO! Forum and Irma Lerma Rangel Young Women's Leadership School

Pulitzer Prize winners Sheryl WuDunn (International Reporting, 1990) and Nicholas Kristof (International Reporting, 1990; Commentary, 2004) (Courtesy of WSHU Public Radio)

Reporting on this event in The Dallas Weekly.

As a part of the Pulitzer Prize Centennial national celebration, on Monday, March 21st, the Irma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School will be hosting a Campfire Plus event with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. The two will be speaking with students from Rangel and the Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy who currently study Journalism and AP Human Geography in a seminar at the Rangel library from 1:30 - 2:45pm. Kristof and WuDunn will also be honored as Posey Leadership Award recipients the following day at Austin College in Sherman, Texas.

Lynn Womble, Austin College Director of Public Affairs, made the arrangements for them to come to Irma Lerma Rangel on the afternoon of March 21, and it was the honorees' express wish that they meet with both boys and girls in a small group to discuss issues that they write about and document in films: women and children who are exploited, war and genocide, human trafficking, and other human rights and social justice issues.

This seminar is also being coordinated through the Pulitzer Prize Centennial Campfire Initiative, where Pulitzer Prize winners gather groups to learn about "the values represented by Pulitzer-Prize winning work."

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Tickets are on sale for the Austin College GO! Forum award presentation at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science on Tuesday, March 22, 2016.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn have been selected as co-recipients of the 2016 Austin College Posey Leadership Award in recognition of their global efforts to address issues including human trafficking, poverty, and gender-based violence. Their latest book, A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity, will be a focal point for their visit. The work of Kristof and WuDunn continues to empower women everywhere to overcome challenges and create lasting change.