Dr. James W. Fowler Ethics Event
Join The Emory Center for Ethics for the second annual James W. Fowler Conversations in Ethics as we explore the best way forward in our individual and collective pursuit of social justice and civil discourse.
We are honored to host Anand Giridharadas, journalist, editor-at-large for TIME, visiting scholar at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, and bestselling author of Winners Take All. Giridharadas will be in conversation with Dr. Robert Franklin, the James T. and Berta R. Laney Professor in Moral Leadership at Emory University. We hope that you will join this discussion of the growing awareness of the roots of divisiveness and inequity, the call for social justice and the hope for inclusiveness and discourse that leads us forward toward systemic change.
About Anand Giridharadas
Mr. Giridharadas is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times, having written, most recently, the biweekly “Letter from America.” His datelines have included Italy, India, China, Dubai, Norway, Japan, Haiti, Brazil, Columbia, Nigeria, Uruguay, and the United States. He has also written for The Time’s art, business, and travel pages, and its Book Review, Sunday Review, and magazine-and for The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. In his email newsletter, The.Ink, he shares essays on politics and culture, money and power.
Giridharadas has appeared regularly on TV and the radio in the United States and globally, and has given talks on the main stage of TED and at Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Yale, Princeton, the University of Michigan, the Aspen Ideas Festival, the New York Public Library, the Sydney Opera House, the United Nations, South by Southwest, the Asia Society, PopTech, the Royal Society of Arts, and Google. He has been the recipient of honors from the Society of Publishers in Asia, the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale, the Henry Crown Fellowship of the Aspen Institute, the 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year award, the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award for Humanism in Culture from Harvard University, and the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Award.
About Dr. Robert Michael Franklin, Jr.
Dr. Robert Michael Franklin, Jr. is the James T. and Berta R. Laney Professor in Moral Leadership at Emory University (Atlanta). He is a Senior Advisor to the President of Emory University.
In 2013, he was a Visiting Scholar in Residence at Stanford University’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute. He is president emeritus of Morehouse College where he served as the tenth president of the nation’s largest private, four-year liberal arts college for men from 2007 through 2012.
Franklin worked with three U.S. Presidents on various initiatives (President Clinton’s “One America” Initiative; President Bush’s “Faith Based Advisory Committee”; and President Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” Initiative). He is a board member of the Centers for Disease Control Foundation, and the Princeton Theological Seminary.
About Emory Center for Ethics
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