The Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication will welcome two journalists to campus on April 1 as part of its annual Women’s Voices Lecture series.
Moni Basu, international reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Teresa Weaver, editor for Habitat for Humanity International and book editor for Atlanta Magazine, will discuss their careers as journalists at 4 p.m. in Room 248 of the Miller Learning Center.
Basu’s 18-year career at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution includes covering cyclones, conflicts and earthquakes in her native India and five trips to Iraq as an embedded reporter with the U.S. Army and Marine Corps.
Weaver, also a veteran of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, spent 18 years with the newspaper including nine years as its book editor. In addition to her full-time work with Habitat for Humanity International, she also serves as part-time book editor for Atlanta Magazine.
The program also will feature the announcement of the winner of the Women’s Voices essay contest. The statewide contest for high school journalists encouraged students to profile a female communicator and tell how that person transformed the industry.
Sponsored by Grady College’s Diversity Committee, the lecture recognizes and highlights the multifaceted and central contributions made by women to journalistic and artistic organizations and
expression.
Previous Women’s Voices Lectures featured award-winning authors Valerie Boyd, Evelyn C. White and Pulitzer Prize winners Isabel Wilkerson and Cynthia Tucker.