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NPC Virtual Newsmaker - Back to School 2020: Feeding Young Minds in Uncertain Times
Schools have traditionally been a critical source of nutrition for vulnerable children through free and low-cost school meals. This fall, however, in order to keep students and staff safer, many schools will not operate as usual, meaning these meals will be disrupted. On Monday, August 17, former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will join a live NPC Virtual Newsmaker panel with Lisa Davis, Senior Vice President of Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign, and Larry Wade, Sr., Director of School Nutrition Services for Chesapeake Public Schools in Virginia to discuss why no matter…
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NPC Virtual Newsmaker: American Nurses Association President Dr. Ernest Grant
American Nurses Association President Dr. Ernest Grant, who called nurses “warriors without armor” in their fight against COVID-19, will participate in a live fireside chat on Friday, May 15. Dr. Grant will discuss the role of nurses in the global pandemic and his priorities for 2020, "The International Year of the Nurse." This special Newsmaker event will be delivered via livestream as part of the National Press Club’s Virtual Newsmaker series. A recent survey conducted by the ANA of more than 20,000 nurses nationwide found that 66% of American nurses lacked the necessary personal protective…
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NPC Newsmaker: Former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov, the former World Chess Champion turned writer and political activist, will deliver a live address on the state of human rights and press freedom in his native Russia, as well as the related crackdown ongoing in Belarus, at a National Press Club Virtual Newsmaker on Friday, October 9 at 12:00 p.m. ET. "The free world, including its media, has a role to play both in how it engages with and covers the un-free world and in how its leaders and citizens can push back against the rising authoritarian trend,” said Kasparov. “With media now global and instantaneous, hostile…
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NPC Virtual Newsmaker: NIH Director Dr. Francis S. Collins
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., the 16th Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will deliver brief remarks and engage in a virtual Q&A on the latest COVID-19 therapeutic and vaccine developments at a National Press Club Virtual Newsmaker presentation on Friday, October 23 at 2:00 p.m. This one-hour program will stream live on the Club’s website and YouTube Channel, and is accessible to both the media and members of the general public free-of-charge. Viewers can send their questions for Dr. Collins in advance or during the live program via email to [email protected]…
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NPC Virtual Newsmaker: The Lincoln Project
Republican political strategists Steve Schmidt and Rick Wilson, co-founders of The Lincoln Project, will give a candid assessment of the state of the 2020 race and the Lincoln Project's strategy to defeat Donald Trump and the Republican senators who support him at a virtual Headliners Newsmaker on Sept. 24 at 2 p.m. Schmidt, Wilson, George Conway and several other Republicans formed The Lincoln Project political action committee in late 2019 with the goal of preventing Trump's reelection in the 2020 presidential election and ousting his supporters in the United States Senate. This one-hour…
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NPC Virtual Newsmaker: Dr. Jane Goodall
Renowned ethologist and environmentalist Dr. Jane Goodall will join National Press Club President Michael Freedman on Friday, September 25 at 2 p.m. for a live-streamed Headliners conversation about the state of the world during the Covid-19 pandemic and the on-going threats caused by climate change. Dr. Goodall is the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees and a champion for animals and the environment. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and Roots & Shoots, a youth-led global community action program with branches in 100 countries. Goodall is a Dame Commander of the Most…
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NPC Virtual Newsmaker: Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla Hayden
As the United States confronts difficult questions about race and equality in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of law enforcement, Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla Hayden has engaged some of our nation’s great literary figures in conversation to highlight what literature and poetry can offer our nation. On Friday, September 11, the Librarian of Congress will deliver a live national address on the role of cultural institutions at times of social unrest and the opportunity to connect more Americans to our literary heritage and the treasures held by the Library of Congress during the…
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NPC Virtual Newsmaker: The Commission on Presidential Debates
All three co-chairs of the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) -- Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr., Dorothy S. Ridings, and Kenneth Wollack -- will join National Press Club (NPC) President Michael Freedman to discuss the upcoming 2020 general election presidential debates as part of a special NPC Virtual Newsmaker on Tuesday, September 1 at 3:00 p.m. ET. This one-hour program will stream live on the Club’s website and YouTube Channel, and is accessible to both the media and members of the general public free-of-charge. Viewers can send their questions for the co-chairs in advance or during the…
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NPC Virtual Newsmaker: Crisis in the College Vote 2020
Washington attorney Thurgood Marshall, Jr. and Paul Loeb, the founder of the non-partisan Campus Election Engagement Project (CEEP), will speak at a virtual National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker event on August 31 at 1 p.m. They will discuss mounting problems that could affect college voters and their impact on the 2020 election with NPC President Michael Freedman. The pandemic is scattering college-based voter groups, leaving them, and the states and districts they impact, dependent on unsystematic absentee ballot practices and the embattled US Postal Service. Mr. Marshall recently co-…
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NPC Virtual Newsmaker: Karen Gray Houston, "Daughter of the Boycott"
In “Daughter of the Boycott: Carrying on a Montgomery Family’s Civil Rights Legacy,” journalist and author Karen Gray Houston examines her family’s own remarkable role in the Civil Rights Movement to breathe new life into the lesser-known history of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Karen will share the stories that didn’t make it into the history books at a National Press Club Virtual Book Event on Thursday, August 13. This 1-hour program will stream live at 2:00 p.m. ET and is accessible to both the media and members of the general public free-of-charge. The event will include a discussion with…
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