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ONLINE An Afternoon with Lynsey Addario

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist

2021-11-21 14:00:00 2021-11-21 15:00:00 America/Chicago ONLINE An Afternoon with Lynsey Addario Pulitzer Prize-winning photojouralist Lynsey Addario discusses her experience covering Afghanistan for 20 years and shares powerful images that she captured. Zoom -

Sunday, November 21
2:00pm - 3:00pm

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojouralist Lynsey Addario discusses her experience covering Afghanistan for 20 years and shares powerful images that she captured.

Lynsey Addario covers major conflict zones across the globe and is a regular contributor to National Geographic, The New York Times, and Time magazine.  Addario was the recipient of a “Genius Grant” and in 2015 was named one of five most influential photographers of the past 25 years for changing the way we see world conflict by American Photo Magazine. She is the bestselling author of the memoir It’s What I Do. 

In conversation with award-winning interviewer Steve Edwards, formerly of WBEZ and the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics. He's an award-winning interviewer. He has moderated several events for us and does a wonderful job! He brings his experience from many years on air to the moderated conversations he leads. He spent more than 20 years as an award-winning journalist, interviewer and host of such acclaimed programs as WBEZ’s Eight Forty-Eight and The Afternoon Shift. His work has appeared on the BBC, Bloomberg News, PBS, and numerous public radio stations.  He also served as the director of the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics.

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