Global Distinguished Lecture Draws Crowds to Discuss Syrian Migration
At the National Resource Center's annual Global Distnquished Lecture event, "Lessons from the Great Syrian Migration," New York Times journalist, Anemona Hartocollis, discussed her experience following a group of refugees from the Greek Island of Kos to Denmark. We had a full audience with more than 100 attendees and a vigorous discussion about one of the greatest human rights crises of our time. She explored the struggles, hopes and desires of people she met along the way and pondered the unknown outcomes of this mass exodus from the Middle East, asking what can we learn from this historic movement of people?
Ms. Hartocollis was born in Lausanne, Switzerland and grew up in Topeka, Kansas. She received her bachelor’s degree from Harvard University. Hartocollis has won awards from the Newswomen’s Club of New York Front Page Award, the New York State AP Writing Contest, the Society of Silurians and the Deadline Club of New York Award, among others. Before coming to work as a journalist for the Times, Hartocollis was a reporter and feature writer for the Daily News in New York, Newsday, The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Detroit News. She is the author of Seven Days of Possibilities: One Teacher, 24 Kids and Music that changed their Lives Forever.
You can follow Ms. Hartocollis' work at the New York Times here.