Nikole Hannah-Jones - “The Problem we all Live With”

Event time: 
Wednesday, March 28, 2018 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Yale Law School Auditorium See map
127 Wall Street
New Haven, CT
Event description: 
Nikole Hannah-Jones’ talk is co-sponsored by Education Studies, the Ludwig Center for Community and Economic Development at the Yale Law School, the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration, the Political Science Department,  the Poynter Center for Journalism, the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale and Timothy Dwight College.
 
This event is free and open to the public. RSVP for the event here.
 
Nikole Hannah-Jones is an award-winning investigative reporter who covers civil rights and racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine. Her reporting has widely been credited for reigniting the national conversation around school segregation.
 
Prior to joining The New York Times, Hannah-Jones worked as an investigative reporter at ProPublica in New York City, where she spent three years chronicling the way official policy created and maintains segregation in housing and schools. In 2016, she helped found the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, a news trade organization dedicated to increasing the ranks of investigative reporters of color. 
 
Hannah-Jones’ reporting, featured in the New York Times and This American Life, has won several national awards, including the Peabody Award, George Polk Award, the National Magazine Award, the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service, and the Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting. In 2017, Hannah-Jones was named a MacArthur “genius” fellow.