
Sheryl WuDunn will deliver the keynote address for the Women and Economic Security: Changing Policy and Practice Conference on May 14 at 7 p.m. The WuDunn lecture is free and open to the public, please register at http://tinyurl.com/wudunnkeynote
WuDunn is co-author of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a No. 1 New York Times best-selling book about the challenges facing women around the globe, published in 2009 by Knopf and featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Colbert Report and other network television shows. WuDunn is the first Asian-American reporter to win a Pulitzer Prize and is a business executive and best-selling author. Ms. WuDunn's address is fully supported by the Christobel Kotelawela Weerasinghe Fund of the Center for the Education of Women.
The lecture is a part of the Women and Economic Security Conference, a 3-day interdisciplinary conference that will focus on identifying and combating barriers that women living in poverty face as they seek economic security and mobility. National researchers and practitioners will join U-M faculty, bringing multiple perspectives to this complex concern with policy recommendations as the expected outcome. For more information on the conference please visit http://tinyurl.com/CEWEconSecConf
WuDunn is co-author of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a No. 1 New York Times best-selling book about the challenges facing women around the globe, published in 2009 by Knopf and featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Colbert Report and other network television shows. WuDunn is the first Asian-American reporter to win a Pulitzer Prize and is a business executive and best-selling author. Ms. WuDunn's address is fully supported by the Christobel Kotelawela Weerasinghe Fund of the Center for the Education of Women.
The lecture is a part of the Women and Economic Security Conference, a 3-day interdisciplinary conference that will focus on identifying and combating barriers that women living in poverty face as they seek economic security and mobility. National researchers and practitioners will join U-M faculty, bringing multiple perspectives to this complex concern with policy recommendations as the expected outcome. For more information on the conference please visit http://tinyurl.com/CEWEconSecConf