Exclusive Northwest presentation Wednesday, March 30, 7 p.m.
TACOMA, Wash. – Best-selling author and social activist Naomi Wolf does more than acknowledge some of the world’s most pervasive problems; she offers tools to solve them. On March 30, Tacoma audiences can learn specific ways to take charge of their lives and change the world in her exclusive Northwest presentation titled, “Women, Confidence, and Courage.” The event takes place at 7 p.m., in Schneebeck Concert Hall, and everyone is welcome.
Wolf has written eight best-selling nonfiction works, including her landmark work, The Beauty Myth, which challenged the cosmetics industry and its marketing of unrealistic beauty standards. One of the most important books of the 20th century, according to The New York Times, The Beauty Myth, launched a new wave of feminism and is still taught worldwide.
Passionate about activism, Wolf is known for questioning establishment views on gender, foreign policy, and economics. In Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries, Wolf offered effective tools for citizens to promote civic engagement and create sustainable democracy. The New York Times best-seller The End of America is a call to preserve liberty and democracy and won the 2008 Nautilus Silver Award for social change and activism.
Wolf is a research fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University, where she teaches public presentations to Rhodes Scholars. She is also a visiting lecturer at Stony Brook University. Co-founder of The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership and The American Freedom Campaign, Wolf also co-founded the tech startup DailyClout, which offers a tool for citizens to access, share, and comment live on federal and state legislation.
Wolf recently completed a doctoral program on the history of discrimination law at Oxford University. She is a consultant for Barnard College’s Athena Center for Leadership Studies and a fellow at the Barnard Center for Research on Women. She contributes to The Washington Post, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
General admission tickets are $7 and will be available March 21 at the University of Puget Sound Information Center, 253.879.3100, or online at tickets.pugetsound.edu. ASUPS Lectures present the event in support of Take Back the Night, an event with ending sexual violence.
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