Join join us for an inspiring conversation with Alexis Okeowo, acclaimed author, New Yorker staff writer, and Montgomery native.
During this exclusive event, Alexis will be in conversation with Priska Neely, Report for America journalist and former founding managing editor of the Gulf States Newsroom.
Guests will receive lunch and a copy of Alexis’s new book, Blessings and Disasters: A Story of Alabama. Blessings and Disasters has been named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and Kirkus reviews.
Your support of this event will go directly to support Leadership Birmingham and Youth Leadership Birmingham programming.
About the Author
Alexis Okeowo has reported on conflict, human rights, and culture across Africa, Mexico, Europe, and the American South for the New Yorker and other publications. Okeowo is the author of A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa, which received the 2018 PEN Open Book Award. Her work has also been anthologized in The Best American Sports Writing and The Best American Travel Writing. Okeowo was named journalist of the year by the Newswomen’s Club of New York in 2020 and received the Reed Environmental Writing Award in 2022.
Thank you to our sponsors:
- Presenting: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama; EBSCO
- Leadership: Barvette and Michael Patterson
- Supporter: Atlas Senior Living
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