Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Naomi Klein will speak about the politics of climate change beginning at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, in NAU’s Prochnow Auditorium.
Klein is an internationally acclaimed journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the New York Times international bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Klein’s previous works also include No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, and Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate.
She is a contributing editor for Harper’s magazine and a reporter for Rolling Stone, and she writes a regular column for The Nation and The Guardian that is syndicated internationally.
In 2004, her reporting from Iraq won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. She is currently working on a new book and film on how the climate crisis can spur economic and political transformation.
Her talk, “(R)evolution of Climate Change: How the Climate Crisis can Spur Economic and Political Transformation,” is free and open to the public, but advance tickets are required and are available through the Central Ticket Office.
The event is sponsored by NAU’s Department of Politics and International Affairs.