A Monthly Speaker Series Featuring Some of Our Neighborhood’s Most Fascinating People

October 15, 2024, 7pm

Susan Stamberg. Broadcast Journalist. In conversation with Linda Winslow

NPR is Good for Women. And Men.

In person at the Cleveland Park Library. Free but must register to attend: https://clevelandwoodleypark.helpfulvillage.com/events/2597

Susan Stamberg along with Linda Wertheimer, Nina Totenberg, and the late Cokie Roberts, were The Founding Mothers of National Public Radio. Susan will speak about her experiences in the early days at NPR – she joined at its inception in 1971 — and how radio news has changed since then.

Susan, who lives in Woodley Park, was the first woman to anchor a national nightly news program and served as co-host of the award-winning All Things Considered for 14 years before hosting Weekend Edition Sunday. She has hosted series on PBS, narrated performances at symphony orchestras, and her voice appeared on Broadway in the play An American Daughter. Susan has conducted thousands of memorable interviews, and who doesn’t know about the famous cranberry relish? She has won every major award in broadcasting and is in the  Broadcasting Hall of Fame and the Radio Hall of Fame. Susan remains a special correspondent for NPR, reporting on cultural issues.

Susan will be in conversation with Linda Winslow, from Cleveland Park, former executive producer of the PBS NewsHour from 2005 to 2014. Linda spent her career working for various PBS news programs. She met the legendary anchor team of Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer working on the PBS coverage of the Senate Watergate Committee hearings and later became one of the original producers of the half-hour “MacNeil/Lehrer Report.” Linda briefly left the MacNeil/Lehrer team in 1978 to become Vice President for News and Public Affairs at WETA-TV in Washington, DC.  In that capacity, she sought to create programs that showcased both public television and public radio reporters. And that is how she met Susan, Linda, Nina, and Cokie.  

Tuesday Talks November 2024

November 12, 2024, 7 pm
Amanda Ripley, Author and Columnist
Who Survives When Disaster Strikes. And Why.
Free and in person at the Cleveland Park Library but must register at: https://clevelandwoodleypark.helpfulvillage.com/events/2657-tuesday-talk 

As a journalist, Amanda Ripley follows people who have been through a transformation to see what we can learn from them. These efforts have resulted in three award-winning, nonfiction books about different subjects: High Conflict, The Smartest Kids in the World which inspired a documentary, and The Unthinkable which became a PBS documentary on who survives disasters and why.

Her revised version of The Unthinkable, updated to include the pandemic and the role of social media and distrust in disaster response, was published just a few months ago. In it, she reveals how human fear circuits and crowd dynamics work, why our instincts sometime misfire in modern calamities, and how we can do much better.

Amanda Ripley’s journalism career began with covering courts and crime for Washington City Paper. She then spent 10 years with Time Magazine in various cities. She is a New York Times bestselling author, a Washington Post contributing columnist, and has written on wide-ranging topics like what Congress can learn from a former gang leader, the 3 ingredients missing from the news, and the untold story of Afghan women who hunted the Taliban.

She is the co-founder of Good Conflict, a media and training
company that helps people reimagine conflict. Amanda lives in Woodley Park and coaches soccer. Amanda will be in conversation with Karen Marsh, director of the Analysis and Capacity Division at FEMA. Karen works with state, local, tribal, and territorial partners to improve emergency management capabilities. She also created FEMA’s popular  PrepTalks  video series.

Amanda will be available at 6:30 pm on Nov. 12 th to sign copies of The Unthinkable which can be purchased in the Library lobby.