Reflecting on 2020

Wednesday, January 13, 5:00-6:30 p.m.

Register: http://bit.ly/Reflecting2020

The year 2020 has been an extraordinary one in world history. Join the UCI Humanities Center and a roundtable of award-winning journalists to reflect on the significance of this past year as we embark upon 2021.

Introduced by Tyrus Miller, dean of UCI’s School of Humanities

Moderated by Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, associate professor of African American studies at UCI, and Felix Jean-Louis III, ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow 2020-2021, UCI Department of European Languages and Culture

Juan Gonzalez, co-host of "Democracy Now," is a progressive broadcast journalist and investigative reporter as well as the author of five books. For more than forty years, Juan González has been one of the nation’s best-known Latino journalists, activists and public intellectuals.

Aarti Shahani is a prize winning author and contributor to NPR as a Silicon Valley correspondent, covering the largest companies on earth. She recently published a memoir Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares (Celadon Books, 2019)

Anh Do is an award winning reporter for the Los Angles Times covering Asian American issues. Do has reported from Cuba, India, Mexico, Peru and Vietnam.

Co-sponsors: Department of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies, Forum for the Academy and the Public, UCI Illuminations, UCI DREAM Center, Latinx Student Resource Center, Literary Journalism Program/Center for Storytelling