Joan E. Schulz Annual Lecture

The Program Committee of the Joan E. Sculz Lectureship endowment is pleased to announce that Vanessa Valenti, co-founder and managing editor of the award-winning blog feministing, will deliver the annual lecture on November 10, 2011.

The title of her talk is "This Is What a Blogger Looks Like: How Social Media Is Reshaping the Feminist Movement."

Since its inception in 2004, feministing has been a pioneer in connecting feminism with the netroots, becoming the most widely read feminist publication online. Most recently, Feministing won the prestigious Hillman Prize in Journalism for reporting "that fosters social and economic justice." 

Vanessa is also an online strategist, sharing her experience and passion for online movement-building with a variety of clients to maximize their engagement within the blogosphere and larger online community. For the last decade, she has been involved with grassroots initiatives, major national organizations, political campaigns and academic institutions, with the goal of evangelizing online activism and illustrating how the internet has shifted the landscape for social change.

Location and Time: First Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany, 405 Washington Ave. 7 p.m.

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