2018 SWF Live and Local Speakers April 18, 2018
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2018 SWF Live and Local Speakers April 18, 2018 Name Bio Recent works Alec Luhn is the Russia correspondent for The Daily Telegraph and has previously written for Time, Politico, The New York Times and The Guardian , among others. He covered the Russian protest Alec Luhn movement, the Sochi Olympics, the annexation of Crimea and the revolution and war in Ukraine. He is working on a book related to the Russian interference in the 2016 US election. Alexis Okeowo is a magazine writer and screenwriter, and a former fellow at New America. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine , the Financial Times , The Best American Travel Writing , and The Best American Sports Writing . The daughter of immigrant parents, Okeowo grew Alexis A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women up in Alabama and attended Princeton University. She was based in Lagos, Nigeria, from 2012 to 2015, Okeowo and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa and now lives in Brooklyn. Her first book, A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism In Africa , is a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously resisting their continent’s wave of fundamentalism. Aminatou Sow is founder of Tech LadyMafia, a group that increases opportunities for women in Tech and the co-host of Call Your Girlfriend , a podcast that tackles the intricacies of pop culture and the latest in Aminatou politics every single week. A digital strategist and writer, she was named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in Sow Tech. She is also a member of the Sundance Institute Director's Advisory Group and previously led Social Impact Marketing at Google. She lives in Brooklyn. Amy Goldstein has been a staff writer for thirty years at The Washington Post , where much of her work has focused on social policy. Among her awards, Goldstein was part of a team of Washington Post reporters awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for the newspaper’s coverage of 9/11 and Amy the government’s response to the attacks. She was also a 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist for national reporting Janesville: An American Story Goldstein for an investigative series she co-wrote on the medical treatment of immigrants detained by the U.S. government. She has been a fellow at Harvard University at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Janesville: An American Story is her first book and the 2017 winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year award. She lives in Washington, DC. Angela Saini is a British writer and science journalist, who presents science programmes on BBC Radio 4 and the World Service. She has a Masters in Engineering from Oxford University, and a second Masters in Science and Security from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. Between 2012 and 2013 she was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US. Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong Her second book, Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong - and the New Research That's Rewriting the Angela Saini Story, takes readers on a journey to uncover science’s failure to understand women, she finds that we’re Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking still living with the legacy of an establishment that’s just beginning to recover from centuries of Over the World entrenched exclusion and prejudice. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian , Observer, The Times, Prospect, New Scientist , Wallpaper, Vogue, Marie Claire , Science, and the Economist among others. She has won a number of national and international journalism awards. Her first book, Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World , was published in 2011 and became a bestseller in India. Anna Broinowski is a filmmaker and author who documents the illicit, subversive and bizzarre. Her films Please Explain: The Rise, Fall and Rise Again include Pauline Hanson: Please Explain , Aim High in Creation! , Forbidden Lie$ , and Helen’s War . She is the Anna of Pauline Hanson recipent of three AFI/AACTAs. Anna’s book about North Korea's propaganda filmmakers, The Director is Broinowski the Commander , was shortlisted for a Dobbie and won the NIB Alex Buzo shortlist prize. Her latest book is The Director is the Commander Please Explain: The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Pauline Hanson . Annabel Crabb is one of Australia's most beloved journalists. She is a writer and broadcaster for the ABC, Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of writes a weekly opinion column for Fairfax, is the author of the bestselling book {The Wife Drought} and is Malcolm Turnbull Annabel a sought-after speaker and presenter. As host of the ABC's enormously popular series Kitchen Cabinet , Crabb Annabel has broken bread with Australia's most influential political leaders and shared her magnificent Special Delivery: Favourite Recipes to Make desserts in kitchens around the country. She broadcasts a top-rating podcast ( Chat10 Looks3 ) with friend and Take and colleague Leigh Sales and her latest book is Special Delivery , a cookbook with Wendy Sharpe. Ben Doherty is Immigration and Asia-Pacific Correspondent for The Guardian . He was formerly Southeast Asia Correspondent for The Guardian , and South Asia correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. He is a three-time Walkley Award-winner, and was 2008 Young Australian Print Journalist of the Ben Doherty Nagaland Year. He holds a Master of International Law and International Relations from the University of New South Wales, and in 2015 was a Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Nagaland. Ben Taub joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2017. He has written for the magazine about jihadi recruitment in Europe, war crimes in Syria, battlefield medicine, converging crises in the Sahel, and human trafficking along the trans-Saharan migration routes from Nigeria to Italy. In 2014, he received a B.A. in philosophy from Princeton; the next year, he completed an M.A. in politics at Columbia’s Graduate School Ben Taub of Journalism. In 2017, Taub’s work on Syria, which was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, was short-listed for a National Magazine Award and won the Livingston Award for International Reporting, the Robert F. Kennedy Award for International Print reporting, and the Overseas Press Club Award for Investigative Reporting. Taub also received the ASME Next Award for Journalists Under 30, and was named one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Media. Claire Nichols is the host of T he Book Hub on ABC RN, a weekly radio program that features in-depth author interviews as well as news and analysis from the publishing world. She has spent a decade at the Claire Nichols ABC, with roles in news, current affairs, local radio and at RN. She is the proud recipient of consecutive WA Media Awards for arts reporting. When she’s not reading, Claire is likely to be found at a dance class, or in a theatre somewhere. Deb Verhoeven is Associate Dean of Engagement and Innovation at University of Technology Sydney Deb (UTS). An agitator, commentator and critic, Verhoeven is the author of more than 100 journal articles and Jane Campion Verhoeven book chapters as well as a book on Jane Campion published by Routledge in 2009. 2018 SWF Live and Local Speakers April 18, 2018 American Journeys Don Watson is the author of various award winning books and essays on subjects including politics, language, history, birds, racehorses, the United States and the Bush. His latest book is There It Is Again , a Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Don Watson collection of his writing from the last fifteen years. He lives in Melbourne and writes regularly for The Language Monthly. There It Is Again: Selected Non-Fiction Professor Elanor Huntington is the Dean at ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science. She was appointed the Dean 2014, and is the first female Dean of Engineering at the Australian National Elanor University. Professor Huntington is has committed to growing the profile of Science and Technology in the Huntington community and is passionate about attracting more young women to take up careers in STEM related fields. Emily Wilson is the first woman to translate the Odyssey into English and is a Professor in the Department of Classical Studies, and Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the Univeristy of Pennsylvania. She grew up in Oxford, England, and got her B.A. and M.Phil. at Oxford, before moving to the United States to do a Ph.D. in Classical Studies and Comparative Literature at Yale. Her research interests include the intersections between classical and later literature, the relationship of literature to philosophy, Greek and Roman tragedy, and the theory and practice of poetry in translation. Emily Wilson Her first book was about “overliving” in the tragic tradition from Sophocles to Milton. Her second was The Odyssey about representations of the death of Socrates from Plato to the twentieth century. Her third was a study of the life and work of the Roman philosopher and political advisor, Seneca. She has published a verse translation of Seneca's tragedies, and verse translations of four tragedies by Euripides in The Greek Plays . Her widely-acclaimed verse translation of the Odyssey, appeared in 2017. She is currently at work on a volume of essays on ancient tragedy, a new verse translation of Oedipus Tyrannos , and a new translation of the Iliad. Emma Alberici is the Chief Economics Correspondent at the ABC.