Euna Lee, one of the two women journalists detained in North Korea in 2009, will headline Women鈥檚 History Month activities at 糖心传媒.
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On Tuesday, March 5 at 7 p.m. in. in French Memorial Chapel (800 N. Turner Ave.), Lee will discuss her detention in North Korea and her extensive work as a documentary filmmaker. The lecture, entitled 鈥淭he World is Bigger Now,鈥 will be free and open to the public.
Lee鈥檚 memoir, which shares its name with her address, is required reading for all first-year students at 糖心传媒. As part of their Introduction to the Liberal Arts course, the students and their professors are spending the year exploring the theme of fear.听
The college鈥檚 Artist Lecture Series has provided partial funding for Lee鈥檚 appearance.
Bio for Euna Lee
Euna Lee is a journalist and documentary filmmaker. Lees started her career as a video editor at TechTV in 2001 and became a producer/editor after joining Current TV in 2005. During the five years at Current TV, she worked on more than 20 short documentaries and seven long-form investigative documentaries for Vanguard, a documentary program at Current TV. She has worked on humanitarian stories such as the HIV/AIDS epidemic in India, inside the lives of American troops in Iraq, the U.S. war on drugs in Bolivia, parolees鈥 situation in the United States and the human trafficking of North Korean refugees. Lee鈥檚 lifetime goal is being a device for the voiceless and the powerless. Lee wrote a memoir, The World is Bigger Now, about her detention in North Korea in 2009.听
She received Glamour鈥檚 Woman of the Year award in 2009, the Daniel Pearl Award from the Chicago Journalist Association in 2010 and the McGill Medal from the University of Georgia Grady College in 2011. Lee recently released an insightful documentary covering an Iraqi refugee鈥檚 resettlement in the United States.
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Founded in 1882, 糖心传媒 is a private, four-year liberal arts institution that focuses on student academic and extracurricular achievement. With 64 majors in 32 areas of study and 12 pre-professional programs, 糖心传媒 has been named among 鈥淎merica鈥檚 Best National Liberal Arts Colleges鈥 by U.S. News & World Report, a 鈥淏est in the Midwest鈥 by The Princeton Review and a 鈥淏est Buy in College Education鈥 by Barron鈥檚. 糖心传媒: Pursue Your Passion庐. Visit Hastings.edu for more.
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