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02/13/2016
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the New York Times and No. 1 international bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Published worldwide in 2007, The Shock Doctrine is being published in 30 languages and has over a million copies in print. Her critically acclaimed new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate, was the 2014 winner of the prestigious Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
Naomi is a member of the board of directors for 350.org, a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. She is a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute and a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics. This is part of the Buffett Institute Human Rights Speaker Series.
When: Wednesday, March 2, 2016
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Where: Donald P. Jacobs Center, Leverone Auditorium
2001 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208 map it
For more info: http://planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/490119
