The Power of Words: Featured Guest Bios

Joins us on February 10, 2011 from 5PM - 7PM for a lively discussion on the power of words.

Words are powerful. Stowe used her words to change the world. Does the phenomenon of on line news and e-readers impact the message?  Is a tweet as powerful as a treatise?  Examine the power of the written world, the impact of technology, how writers adapt their style to accommodate trends and why you should care.

Featured Guests: 

Michael Kramer, author of Divine Rivalry, is an award-winning journalist.  As New York Magazine's political columnist in the 1970s and 1980s, he covered local and political politics.  For a decade beginning in the late '80's, he was TIME magazine's political columnist, covering national and foreign affairs.  He was also chief political correspondent for the US. News and World Report and managing editor of the New York Daily News.  He is the co-author of The Ethnic Factor, a book about minority voting patterns that became a standard text on the subject.

Susan Campbell is an award-winning columnist at the Hartford Courant, where her work has been recognized by the National Women's Political Caucus, New England Associated Press News Executives, the Society for Professional Journalists, the American Association of Sunday and Featured Editors, the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, and the Sunday Magazine Editors Association.  Her column about the shootings at the lottery headquarters in March 1998 was part of the Courant's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage.