2012 Visionary Leadership Award & Luncheon HONORING CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT Charlayne Hunter-Gault


2012 Visionary Leadership Award & Luncheon
HONORING CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT

Charlayne Hunter-Gault
A respected journalist and life-long activist

http://artidea.org/vla2012

The Visionary Leadership Award honors a leader whose trailblazing work is impacting the world. Occurring outside of the annual Festival, the award connects the Festival’s Ideas programs to every day impacts on the community and the world, and was created in honor of the late Jean M. Handley’s leadership as a Founding Director of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas. The award will be presented annually to a visionary leader whose trailblazing work is impacting the world. We are thrilled to this year honor Charlayne Hunter-Gault, an award-winning journalist whose life and work has brought light to a number of important issues in civil rights, social justice, public health, and education.

Ms. Hunter-Gault's personal life story forms the backdrop for the important work that she has accomplished professionally: in 1961, she experienced the civil rights movement first hand as one of the first black students to be admitted to the University of Georgia, in 1961. Her attorney during the case was Constance Baker Motley, a New Haven native who would later become the first black female to serve as a federal judge.

Award Presentation and Luncheon
12pm, Omni New Haven Hotel

Honorary Chairs and Founding Directors Anne Tyler Calabresi and Roslyn Milstein Meyer, Luncheon Co-Chairs, Susan J. Bryson, Dorsey L. Kendrick and Stephanie S. Spangler and the Luncheon committe and the Board of Directors of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas invite you to a benefit luncheon and presentation of the 2012 Visionary Leadership Award. All proceeds benefit the Jean A. Handley Fund at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.



Additional Events in the Community
During her visit to New Haven, Ms. Hunter-Gault will also participate in several other events in the community so that we may share more of her extraordinary experience and life story.

Book Signing & Meet-and-Greet
Ms. Hunter-Gault will host a book signing and meeting opportunity for her most recent book To the Mountaintop: My Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement (read The New York Times review) at Gateway Community College on Monday, February 4th at 5:30 p.m., Gateway Community College Library.

Yale Poynter Lecture & Masters Tea
Ms. Hunter-Gault will join Yale Branford College Master Betsy Bradley for a conversation and Master’s tea on social justice, equity and public health at 4:00 p.m. on February 5th at Branford College.  The conversation is part of Yale University's Poynter Lecture Series.

About the Visionary Leadership Award
The Visionary Leadership Award was created in honor of Jean M. Handley’s leadership as a Founding Director of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas. The Award is presented annually to a visionary leader whose trailblazing work is impacting the world. Jean M. Handley was a person of extraordinary wisdom and an individual of exceedingly high standards who was generous with her talent and time. The Jean Handley Fund will support programs at the Festival that represent the values and passions of our co-founder. Read more about the Visionary Leadership Award and previous recipients.

About Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an award-winning journalist with more than 40 years of experience. Beginning her journalism career as reporter for The New Yorker, Ms. Hunter-Gault went on to be national correspondent for PBS, chief correspondent for CNN and Johannesburg bureau chief and correspondent for NPR. She is also the author of three books, To the Mountaintop: My Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement (2012), New News Out of Africa: Uncovering the African Renaissance (2007) and In My Place, a Memoir of the Civil Rights Movement (1993), fashioned around her experience as the first black woman to attend the University of Georgia.











Comments