Event

Women-Children-Crisis event Columbia University, 4/1

Wednesday, April 1, 2009 - 07:00pm to 09:00pm EDT (GMT -0400)

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting presents Women - Children - Crisis. Three journalists will share their stories from Nepal, Iraq and the Democratic Republic of Congo. See the journalists projects at Nepal: Olga's Girls, The Roots of Ethnic Conflict in Eastern DRC and Iraq: Death of a Nation?

Wednesday, April 1
7-9 p.m.
Reception Following

Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism
3rd Floor Lecture Hall, 116th and Broadway

Co-Sponsored by Career Services at the Graduate School of Journalism

Meredith May, feature writer for the San Francisco Chronicle and a professor at Mills College in Oakland, reported this winter on child indentured servants in western Nepal.

Michael Kavanagh, a specialist on the Great Lakes ethnic conflicts, has made three month-long trips to eastern Congo in the past year, reporting for The World, World Focus, NPR and Slate.

Alaa Majeed, an Iraqi journalist who worked in McClatchy's Baghdad bureau, is a winner of the 2007 Courage in Journalism Award. She was in Iraq this winter, reunited with her two sons after years apart.