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Newsmakers: Nikole Hannah-Jones
Presented by the Lesher Foundation
- Date: 08/30/2022 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
- Location: Lesher Center for the Arts
1601 Civic Drive
Walnut Creek, California 94596 - Introduction: (Rescheduled)
Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project.
The Newsmakers: Lesher Speaker Series is pleased to have Richmond Pulse as our non-profit partner for this presentation featuring
Nikole Hannah Jones
Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project and staff writer at The New York Times Magazine
Nikole Hannah-Jones is the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project, a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine, and a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, known as the Genius grant. She is the Knight Chair of Race and Journalism at Howard University, where she is founding the Center for Journalism & Democracy.
The presentation in the Vukasin Theatre is a live televised, simulcast viewing.