A Pulitzer Prize-winning author… record-breaking polar explorer… two innovative non-profit activists, and an entrepreneur and visionary for the dyslexic community. All will come together Thursday, Oct. 23, at the Atlanta History Center for the 2014 HI Speaker Series. “Small Stories, Big Ideas,” is open to the public.
Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Humes, critically acclaimed author of “Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash,” will lead off the evening. In Garbology, Humes has written a kind of trash travelogue revealing how the government conceals our trashy ways and how the consumer economy actually encourages our costly love affair with waste.
Also speaking will be: Ann Daniels, the first woman in history to reach the North and South Poles as part of all-women teams; Ben Foss, inventor of the Intel Reader and author of “The Dyslexia Empowerment Plan: A Blueprint for Renewing Your Child’s Confidence and Love of Learning”; Alex West, co-founder of the Atlanta-based WonderRoot, a nonprofit with a mission to unite artists and community to inspire positive social change; and Bailey Lyles, a 2014 HIES graduate who is renovating a building in downtown Atlanta to provide therapy for survivors of child sexual abuse and the sex trafficking trade.
The evening will also feature a series of conversations recorded by StoryCorps, the largest oral history project of its kind. Audio clips will include conversations between Holy Innocents’ students and Andrew Young, the Civil Rights leader who became mayor of Atlanta and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and Bret Witter, co-author of The Monuments Men. Listening stations will be set up during the reception and some of the recordings will be woven into the program.
To purchase tickets or learn more about “Small Stories, Big Ideas,” visit: www.hispeakerseries.org.
Begun in 2012, the HI Speaker Series embodies Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School’s commitment to lifelong learning, promotes discussion of complex societal issues, and fosters a spirit of respect and open-mindedness.
Contact:
Peggy Shaw
(404)303-2150
peggy.shaw@hies.org