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Keynote Speaker: Jacki Lyden

After joining National Public Radio (NPR) in 1979, Jacki Lyden has worked as a senior correspondent and alternate host for many of NPR’s awardwinning news programs, including All Things Considered. She has reported from Syria, Lebanon, Jordon, Egypt, Iran, amongst other countries. Since the start of the Iraq war, she has traveled regularly to the war-torn country and in 2006 produced the documentary Anatomy of a Shooting: A Civilian’s Death in Iraq with NPR’s John McChesney. Lyden is also working on a new book, Vox Babylonia, due out in 2009 from Houghton Mifflin. Lyden’s previous book, Daughter of the Queen of Sheba (Houghton Mifflin, 1997) is out in eleven foreign editions and considered a memoir classic by The New York Times.

Lyden was NPR’s first reporter on the air from New York on September 11, 2001, and stayed on the story from Ground Zero. She shared in NPR’s George Foster Peabody and Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards for coverage of 9/11.

Lyden graduated from Valparaiso University’s Christ College scholars program, participated in the university’s program of study in Cambridge University, England, and was a Benton Fellow at the University of Chicago from 1991-92. She is a popular featured speaker and has written for Granta, Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times and The Washington Post, among others.

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