Tuesday, 05-08-2007

Eastside Speakers Series: Stories of AIDS in Africa

What is the human story coming from a continent in the midst of catastrophe?

The World Affairs Council, Cascadia Community College, and the University of Washington, Bothell are pleased to announce the third lecture in the Eastside Speakers Series. This series is bringing three distinguished lecturers to the shared campus of Cascadia Community College and the University of Washington, Bothell to discuss issues of global importance, with particular emphasis on their impact to the Eastside region.

The last installment in this program features Stephanie Nolen, the award-winning Africa bureau chief for Toronto’s Globe and Mail, who focuses on over two dozen emblematic figures in Africa today: one for every million suffering. Through riveting, anecdotal stories, she explores the effects of an epidemic that well exceeds the Black Plague in scope, and the reasons why we must care about what happens.

For the past six years Ms. Nolen has traced AIDS across Africa, and she is one of only three journalists in the world wholly dedicated to the AIDS story. She was the recipient of the 2003 and 2004 Amnesty International Award for Human Rights Reporting for her reports from war zones in Uganda and Sudan, and also won the Markwell Award of the International Society of Political Psychology for her “creative brilliance, humanitarian compassion, personal courage, and
relentless pursuit of truth.”