In collaboration with the Department of Women's Studies, the Institute is pleased to bring National Public Radios award-winning legal correspondent, Nina Totenberg, to Mendelssohn Theatre on Thursday, February 21 at 7 p.m. for a talk entitled The Supreme Court and Its Impact on You.
Totenberg's coverage of legal affairs and the Supreme Court has won her widespread recognition, honors and awards. Newsweek says, "The mainstays [of NPR] are Morning Edition and All Things Considered. But the crème de la crème is Nina Totenberg." She is also a regular panelist on Inside Washington, a weekly syndicated public affairs television program produced in the nation's capital.
In 1991, Totenberg's groundbreaking report about University of Oklahoma Law Professor Anita Hill's allegations of sexual harassment by Judge Clarence Thomas led the Senate Judiciary Committee to re-open Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation hearings to consider Hill's charges. NPR received the prestigious Peabody Award for its gavel-to-gavel coverage--anchored by Totenberg--of both the original hearings and the inquiry into Anita Hill's allegations, and for Totenberg's reports and exclusive interview with Hill.Her lecture is free and open to the public. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Education of Women Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Ford School of Public Policy, the Howard R. Marsh Center for the Study of Journalist Performance, the Law School, the Provost's Office, and Rackham Graduate School, with support from the Departments of American Culture, Communications Studies, and Psychology; the Schools of Public Health and Social Work; and the Center for Law, Ethics, and Health.