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.
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