Brown Lecture Series: April Ryan

400 Cathedral Street,Baltimore MD 21201

07 November, 2022

Description

White House correspondent April Ryan will profile Black women who are working to change America’s social and political landscape. She will also reflect on her own life and career, from her working class upbringing in Baltimore to her position in the Washington press corp. April Ryan will be joined in conversation by University of Baltimore president Kurt Schmoke. April Ryan is a longtime White House correspondent and a CNN political analyst. She is the author of The Presidency in Black and White and At Mama’s Knee: Mothers and Race in Black and White. Kurt Schmoke is the president of the University of Baltimore. He served as the mayor of Baltimore from 1987-1999. Free parking vouchers are available to program attendees who park at the Franklin Street Garage (15 W. Franklin Street) after 4pm. Ask Pratt event staff for your parking voucher prior to or after the program. ASL interpretation will be available for attendees.Writers LIVE! programs are supported in part by a bequest from The Miss Howard Hubbard Adult Programming Fund and the William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund, creator of the Baker Artist Portfolios, www.BakerArtist.org.