February 12, 2025
An Evening with Nikole Hannah-Jones
7:00pm EST
Weber Auditorium (in Weber Chapel)
Open gallery
Join us for an evening with Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize–winning creator of the 1619 Project, staff writer at The New York Times Magazine, and the Knight Chair of Race and Journalism at Howard University.
Nikole Hannah-Jones is the Pulitzer Prize–winning creator of The 1619 Project — the No. 1 New York Times bestselling book and 2024 Emmy Award–winning Hulu docuseries — as well as the co-author of the 1619 Project children’s book, Born on the Water. Copies of both books will be available for purchase at the conclusion of the event.
Hannah-Jones has spent her career investigating racial inequality and injustice, and her reporting has earned her the MacArthur Fellowship, known as the “Genius Grant,” a Peabody Award, two George Polk Awards and the National Magazine Award three times.
She serves as the Knight Chair of Race and Journalism at Howard University, where she founded the Center for Journalism & Democracy. Hannah-Jones is also the co-founder of the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, which seeks to increase the number of investigative reporters and editors of color, and in 2022 she opened the 1619 Freedom School, a free, after-school literacy program in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa.
Event Details
Tickets are not required for the event, which is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6 p.m. Bags, purses and water bottles are prohibited, and a security check will be performed at entrances.
The event is sponsored by the Ottoway Daily Item Lectureship in Public Affairs, established by Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. in 1977 to bring to the Susquehanna Campus and Central Pennsylvania individuals of outstanding reputation in the fields of journalism and public affairs.
A robust series of lectures is presented annually in locations across campus. Learn more about upcoming lectureships and speakers here.