A conversation with Isha Sesay
Monday, August 26, 2019
Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Wallis Annenberg Hall (ANN), The Sheindlin Forum (106)
Isha Sesay is an award-winning journalist who led the CNN team that won a 2014 Peabody Award for coverage of the missing Chibok girls. She hosted CNN NewsCenter, headed the network’s Africa reporting for ten years, and received a Gracie Award for Outstanding Anchor for her coverage of the Chibok girls’ story. She is the founder of W.E. (Women Everywhere) Can Lead, a nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing and empowering teenage girls to become Africa’s next generation of leaders.
Join Isha in conversation with Wallis Annenberg Chair of Journalism Afua Hirsch to discuss her work, and her new book Beneath the Tamarind Tree, the first definitive account of the lost girls of Boko Haram, with crucial lessons about global national security, the personal sacrifice required of journalists to bring us the truth at a time of growing mistrust of the media, and a powerful message of hope.
A limited quantity of books will be available for sale and signing by Isha Sesay after the event.