DeKALB- NIU’s Rebuilding Democracy Lecture Series will host Naomi Klein on April 2 as the final guest speaker for the 2024-2025 lecture series. The event will take place at 5 p.m. CST and will be held over Zoom.

Naomi Klein is an award-winning author and journalist, tenured UBC Professor of Climate Justice at University of British Columbia in the Faculty of Arts and a columnist with The Guardian. She has written regular columns for other newspapers such as The Intercept, The Nation and The Globe and Mail. She has appeared as a regular media commentator in print, radio and television, in shows such as “The Rachel Maddow Show,” “Democracy Now,” “The Colbert Report” and more. 

Klein is the founding co-director of the UBC Centre for Climate Justice and a Honorary Professor of Media and Climate at Rutgers University. Among many awards, she is an activist for climate justice and is a co-founder of The Leap, an organization that ran from 2015 to 2021 with the mission of “advanc[ing] intersectional solutions to overlapping crises” of inequality and climate change. 

The Rebuilding Democracy series aims to take a broad approach in addressing different elements of “what needs to be done to rebuild democracy and bring together a fractured society.” Topics range between different speakers and demonstrate how liberal arts and sciences are central to a healthy democracy. 

The lecture is free and open to the public. To attend, register online before April 2.