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Pulitzer Prize Winner
Isabel Wilkerson Coming to Campus
 LTS continues its world-class programming efforts by
bringing vital speakers to campus to foster community
engagement and dialogue. Friends of the Lehigh Libraries
welcomes three speakers as part of its 2011-12 Speaker’s
Program. The keynote speaker is Isabel Wilkerson, author of
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great
Migration (also available at
Lehigh or your local library), who will speak on
February 28th, 4:10pm, at
Baker Hall in Zoellner Arts Center. We’re also welcoming Marshall
Breeding on February 9th at 4:10pm (Linderman 200), and
Lehigh Alum Michele Kimpton on April 11th at 4:10pm (Linderman
200).
Isabel Wilkerson, who spent most of her career as a
national correspondent and bureau chief at The New York
Times, is the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in
the history of American journalism and was the first black
American to win for individual reporting. Inspired by her
own parents’ migration, she devoted fifteen years to the
research and writing of this book. She interviewed more than
1,200 people, unearthed archival works and gathered the
voices of the famous and the unknown to tell the epic story
of the relocation of an entire people in The Warmth of
Other Suns. This event is co-sponsored by the Office of
Academic Diversity, the Department of Africana Studies, and
the Weinstock Center for Journalism.
Marshall Breeding serves as the Director for Innovative
Technologies and Research for the Vanderbilt University
Libraries in Nashville, TN and is the Executive Director of the
Vanderbilt Television News Archive, a large-scale
archive of digital video content. He is the creator and
editor of
Library Technology Guides.
Lehigh alumna Michele Kimpton, BSME ‘84, is Chief Executive
Officer and co-founder of
DuraSpace, a not for profit organization that provides
guidance and support for the open source software projects
DSpace, Fedora and more recently DuraCloud. Mrs. Kimpton was
recently awarded
Digital Preservation Pioneer by the National Digital
Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) program at
Library of Congress.
James B. Young
james.young@lehigh.edu
Article posted December,
2011
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