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Date

March 28, 2024 5:00PM

Location

Camp Concert Hall

Name

Suzanne Nossel

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SHARP SERIES: Speaking About Speech with Suzanne Nossel
The University of Richmond celebrates fostering important and challenging dialogues through the Sharp Viewpoint Speakers Series. This year, three luminaries with expertise in civil liberties and constitutional law will participate in dialogues on-stage at the Modlin Center of the Arts.

Through these conversations, we will explore speech as a tool for understanding and navigating differences in a democratic society. Together, we will consider why civil discourse is important, why it is sometimes so difficult, and what democracies and university communities stand to gain from embracing a shared commitment to free expression.

SUZANNE NOSSEL
Chief Executive Officer, PEN America

Nossel, a human rights advocate, serves as the chief executive officer of PEN America, the leading free expression organization, and is the author of Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All. Her career has spanned government service and leadership roles in the corporate and nonprofit sectors. She has served as the chief operating officer of Human Rights Watch and executive director of Amnesty International USA. During the first term of the Obama Administration, Nossel served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations. She also coined the term “Smart Power,” the title of a 2004 article she published in Foreign Affairs magazine. Nossel has published op-eds in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times, as well as scholarly articles in Foreign Affairs, Dissent, and Democracy. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

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