Endowed Lecture: Celeste Headlee

Endowed Lecture: Celeste Headlee
When: Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Cole Hall, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, Va.
Notes: This event is free and open to the public. A livestream of the lecture will be available at bridgewater.edu/headlee.

Celeste Headlee will present an endowed lecture at Bridgewater College on Wednesday, Nov. 13. A book signing will follow the lecture.

Headlee will give an address regarding, “10 ways to have better conversations after the 2024 election.” In 2015, Headlee presented a TED Talk titled “10 ways to have a better conversation,” which has since garnered more than 36 million views. She is currently President and Lead Trainer of the non-profit Headway DEI, which offers training on diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Headlee previously spent 20 years working in public radio, including National Public Radio, where she hosted “Tell Me More,” “Talk of the Nation,” “Here & Now,” “All Things Considered” and “Weekend Edition.” She continues to appear on “Here & Now” as a guest host. Headlee was named a fellow of the USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalist Program in 2011.

The endowed lecture is sponsored by the Anna B. Mow Symposium on Comparative Religious Ethics, the W. Harold Row Symposium on Reconciliation and the Harry W. and Ina Mason Shank Peace Studies Endowment and is co-presented by the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. It is free and open to the public. A livestream of the lecture will be available at bridgewater.edu/headlee.