Speakers

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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Bestselling Author • Journalist • Women’s Advocate

Lemmon is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield, The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, and her latest The Daughters of Kobani, “an unforgettable and nearly mythic tale of women’s power and courage” (Elizabeth Gilbert) the Kurdish women leading the battle against ISIS.

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Dr. Reuben Jonathan Miller

Sociologist • Social Justice Advocate

Drawn from 15 years of research Reuben Jonathan Miller’s Halfway Home explores the criminal justice system’s lingering effects on formerly incarcerated people and their families.

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Jessica Bruder

Journalist • Author

Praised by the New Yorker as “an acute and compassionate observer,” Jessica Bruder reports on subcultures, economic justice and social issues in her books Nomadland, The Burning Book and her forthcoming Snowden’s Box, about how she become intertwined with the Edward Snowden saga.

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Katherine Boo

Pulitzer Prize Winner • Bestselling Author • Journalist

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist noted for her reporting on poverty and inequality, Boo is the author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, a gripping narrative of life in a Mumbai slum. The book won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

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Eli Saslow

Pulitzer Prize Winner • Journalist • Author

Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalist Eli Saslow is the author of Rising Out of Hatred, which charts the rise of white nationalism in America and recounts how the movement’s one-time heir came to reject the ideology he helped spread.

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