Award-Winning Journalist/Activist
February 5, 2013 - 4:00pm
"Social Justice, Equity and Public Health"
Branford College, Common Room
74 High Street
Visionary Leadership Award recipient –
International Festival of Arts & Ideas
Branford College Master’s Tea
About Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an award-winning journalist with more than 40 years of experience. Beginning her journalism career as reporter for The New Yorker, Ms. Hunter-Gault went on to be national correspondent for PBS, chief correspondent for CNN and Johannesburg bureau chief and correspondent for NPR. She is also the author of three books, To the Mountaintop: My Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement (2012), New News Out of Africa: Uncovering the African Renaissance (2007) and In My Place, a Memoir of the Civil Rights Movement (1993), fashioned around her experience as the first black woman to attend the University of Georgia.