ward-winning journalist and bestselling author Naomi Klein is pictured. She will be the final guest speaker for NIU's Rebuilding Democracy Lecture Series on April 2. (Photo courtesy of Naomi Klein)
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.