Elizabethtown College will welcome Emmy award-winning journalist Jemele Hill on Thursday, April 11 at 7 p.m. as this year’s speaker for the annual Ware Lecture in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. Hill, also a Webby Award winner, has spent more than 25 years exploring the nuanced intersection of race, social justice, politics, and sports.
Hill will present her lecture, “Learn from Your Past. Live by Your Convictions,” where she will discuss how trauma and adversity in her childhood have provided her with a unique perspective as a journalist and an advocate for living authentically with multi-layered identities, using her platform to bravely address complex issues to build a stronger, more just society for all. Her lecture will be followed by a public book signing in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center.
Actively engaged in work that builds the capacity for sustained peace by initiating sometimes difficult but necessary conversations around systemic oppression, Hill conducts intimate interviews with some of the biggest names and most thought-provoking contributors to culture, music, and entertainment on her popular podcast, “Jemele Hill is Unbothered.”
This year’s Ware Lecture will also include the recognition and celebration of the 2023-24 Educate for Service – Service to Humanity Award honoree, Jessica Hayden ’78. The Educate for Service Awards are the highest honors bestowed upon alumni by Elizabethtown College and the Elizabethtown College Alumni Association. The Ware Lecture is made possible by a generous endowed gift from Judy S. ’68 and Paul W. Ware. The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.