{"id":16335,"date":"2024-04-02T08:35:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T12:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=16335"},"modified":"2024-04-01T13:37:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T17:37:09","slug":"emmy-award-winning-journalist-to-speak-at-elizabethtown-colleges-annual-ware-lecture-on-april-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2024\/04\/02\/emmy-award-winning-journalist-to-speak-at-elizabethtown-colleges-annual-ware-lecture-on-april-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmy Award-winning Journalist to Speak at Elizabethtown College\u2019s Annual Ware Lecture on April 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elizabethtown College will welcome Emmy award-winning journalist Jemele Hill on Thursday, April 11 at 7 p.m. as this year\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hill will present her lecture, \u201cLearn from Your Past. Live by Your Convictions,\u201d 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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, &#8220;Jemele Hill is Unbothered.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year\u2019s Ware Lecture will also include the recognition and celebration of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etownalumni.com\/s\/154\/bp\/interior.aspx?sid=154&amp;gid=1&amp;pgid=705\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2023-24 Educate for Service &#8211; Service to Humanity Award<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> honoree, Jessica Hayden \u201978. The Educate for Service Awards are the highest honors bestowed upon alumni by Elizabethtown College and the Elizabethtown College Alumni Association. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Ware Lecture is made possible by a generous endowed gift from Judy S. &#8217;68 and Paul W. Ware. The event is free and open to the public. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etown.edu\/offices\/president\/lecture-series.aspx#hill\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Registration is required.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabethtown College will welcome Emmy award-winning journalist Jemele Hill on Thursday, April 11 at 7 p.m. as this year\u2019s 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. 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