Sheryl WuDunn, the first Asian-American reporter to win a Pulitzer Prize, will be the final speaker of the inaugural year of the Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
Sheryl WuDunn won the Pulitzer with her husband Nicholas Kristof for her reporting from Beijing on the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. WuDunn has also received a George Polk Award and an Overseas Press Club award, both for reporting in China.
Along with Kristof, she is coauthor of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a New York Times bestseller about the challenges facing women around the globe. WuDunn and Kristof received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize’s 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Currently, WuDunn is a senior managing director at Mid-Market Securities, an investment banking firm, and is also president of TripleEdge, a social investing consultancy. Previously, she worked at The New York Times as both an executive and a journalist. She has also been a vice president at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and a commercial loan officer at Bankers Trust.
The 2010–11 Lorwin Lectureship has explored the topic of “Women’s Rights in a Global World” through a yearlong series of lectures, symposia, workshops and events featuring renowned activists, scholars and writers. The lectureship was funded by the estate of Val and Madge Lorwin. Val Lorwin was a labor activist and professor of history at the UO who died in 1982.
What: Sheryl WuDunn
When: May 11, 2011, 7:00 p.m.
Where: Ballroom, Erb Memorial Union, 1222 East 13th Avenue
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