Categories: Academics
Join us in Generac Hall on Monday, November 18 at 4:30 p.m. when award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger will read from and discuss her memoir, While You Were Out: An Intimate Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence. The event is free and open to the public.
A Pulitzer finalist, Meg Kissinger spent more than two decades traveling across the country to report on our nation’s mental health system for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. She taught investigative reporting at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and is a trainer for the school’s Dart Center on Trauma and Journalism.
While You Were Out was named an Outstanding Work of Literature winner and an editors’ choice by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, Goodreads, and the Independent Booksellers Association. The audio version was named an Audible Best Memoir of the Year.
EVENT LOCATION
Generac Hall - S109 Classroom
612 Maywood Avenue
Parking Center
8701 West Wisconsin Avenue