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Jane Olson, humanitarian and published author, volition beryllium the adjacent talker to sojourn Fresno State for the President’s Lecture Series.
Her lecture “Finding Hope successful Dark Places: Journeys of a Global Humanitarian” volition instrumentality spot astatine 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18, astatine the Resnick Student Union. A question-and-answer league volition travel the lecture.
Olson has worked arsenic a unpaid for galore decades to beforehand bid and justness done planetary quality rights and humanitarian organizations. She chaired the International Board of Trustees of Human Rights Watch, the largest U.S.-based planetary quality rights organization, from 2004 to 2010 and served arsenic co-chair of the Women’s Refugee Commission. As founding committee seat of Landmine Survivors Network/Survivor Corps, she gave enactment to the web for 12 years.
Olson’s book, “World Citizen,” recounts her experiences successful assorted countries and regions portion advocating for the extortion of cardinal quality rights arsenic acceptable distant successful the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Her acquisition successful warfare zones, crowded exile camps, and immoderate of the poorest and astir disease-affected places connected the satellite service arsenic a reminder of the affirmative interaction radical tin person connected others.
The lecture is escaped and unfastened to the public. The lawsuit volition besides beryllium disposable via Zoom. Additional accusation volition beryllium disposable connected the event website successful the coming weeks.
The President’s Lecture Series began successful 2016 and features salient nationalist guests invited to field by the President. Other nationalist figures who person participated are New York Times columnist David Brooks, statesmanlike historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Michael Beschloss, New York Times overseas affairs columnist Thomas L. Friedman, Washington Post writer Robert Costa, president and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media Steve Forbes, scientist and writer of “Grit” Angela Duckworth, and Mallika Chopra, media entrepreneur and published author.
For much accusation oregon for disablement accommodations, interaction the Office of the President astatine 559.278.0178 oregon events@mail.fresnostate.edu
