Distinguished Speakers Board

The Distinguished Speakers Board is pleased to announce its first event of the year. Soledad O’Brien, former CNN anchor for Weekend Today and founder of Starfish Media Group, will be speaking on Tuesday, November 4^th at CU Boulder’s Macky Auditorium Concert hall. Doors will open at 6:45pm and O’Brien will begin at 7:30pm.

OBrien is an award winning journalist, documentarian, news anchor and producer. O’Brien was the originator of Black in America and Latino in America series on CNN. In June 2013 she launched Starfish Media Group, a multiplatform media production and distribution company, dedicated to uncovering and producing empowering stories that take a challenging look at the often divisive issues of race, class, wealth, poverty and opportunity, through personal stories. Starfish Media Group continues to produce Black in America and Latino in America and other programming for CNN. Also, in June 2013, O’Brien joined HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel as a correspondent, and joined the Harvard University Graduate School of Education as a visiting fellow for the 2013-14 school year. In 2010, she wrote a critically-acclaimed memoir The Next Big Story: My Journey through the Land of Possibilities, which chronicles her biggest reporting moments and how her upbringing and background have influenced these experiences. OBrien came to CNN from NBC News where she anchored the network’s Weekend Today. Soledad O’Brien is a graduate of Harvard University and currently lives with her husband and four children in Manhattan.

In the wake of several media scandals, the media has an even tougher job establishing credibility and trust among a public who is becoming ever more skeptical. With many years of experience as a journalist, Soledad OBrien discusses our scandalous times, what may have caused them, and how the general public can reacquaint itself with the truth in the media’. There will be a Q&A portion with the audience following the speech.

Tickets for the event will be free for CU Students with a valid BuffOne card and $8 for the community. Tickets will be available starting October 20^th on the first floor of the University Memorial Center (UMC) at the Distinguished Speakers Board Table, Monday through Friday, 10:00am to 3:00pm. Limited community tickets will be available online at macky.colorado.edu starting October 13th.

For information about the event or event accommodations, contact the Distinguished Speakers Board at DSBchair@gmail.com or visit http://facebook.com/CUdsb.

 

Distinguished Speakers Board, Office: UMC 452

Irfan Nadiadi, Chair dsbchair@gmail.com
Mark Haselmaier, Public Relations Director mark.haselmaier@colorado.edu
Colin Spaulding, Advisor, Office: UMC 456 colin.spaulding@colorado.edu

The Distinguished Speakers Board is pleased to announce its third and final event for the year. Robert Ballard, who discovered the wreckage of the RMS Titanic in 1985, will be speaking on Tuesday, April 21st, at CU-Boulder’s Glenn Miller Ballroom. Doors will open at 6:30pm and Ballard will begin speaking at 7:00pm.

Making discoveries that have captured the imagination of the public, Dr. Robert Ballard is best known for his 1985 discovery of the RMS Titanic. He has succeeded in tracking down numerous other significant shipwrecks, including the German battleship KMS Bismarck, the lost fleet of Guadalcanal, the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (sunk in World War II during the Battle of Midway) and John F. Kennedy’s boat, PT-109.

In addition to being a National Geographic Society Explorer-In-Residence and a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, Dr. Ballard is the president of the Ocean Exploration Trust (OET). Having spent 30 years at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Dr. Ballard helped develop telecommunications technology to create “tele-presence” for his education initiative, which allows hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren to accompany him from afar on undersea explorations around the globe each year. He has a Ph.D. in marine geology and geophysics from the University of Rhode Island and in 2001 returned to the Graduate School of Oceanography where he is presently a tenured Professor of Oceanography and Director of the Center for Ocean Exploration.

In his speech, titled “Adventures in Deep Sea Exploration: Living the Dream”, Dr. Ballard will present his most recent work in deep water archaeology and the technology of tele-presence. He will share his findings from numerous expeditions where he search for, located, and documented sites of historical significance.

General admission for the event will be FREE for CU-Boulder Students and for community members, though seating is limited. There will be a Q&A portion with the audience following the speech.

The Distinguished Speakers Board is a student-run cost center of the CU Student Government with the mission to bring the world’s greatest minds to the CU Boulder campus. For more information please visit http://CUdsb.org.

For more information about the event, or event accommodations, please contact the Distinguished Speakers Board at DSBchair@gmail.com or visit http://facebook.com/CUdsb.

Distinguished Speakers Board, Office: UMC 452

Irfan Nadiadi, Chair dsbchair@gmail.com
Mark Haselmaier, Public Relations Director mark.haselmaier@colorado.edu
Colin Spaulding, Advisor, Office: UMC 456 colin.spaulding@colorado.edu

The Distinguished Speakers Board is pleased to announce its first event for the year: The State of Satire. Megan Amram, Kevin Avery, Aasif Mandvi, and Scott Dikkers will be speaking in a joint event on Tuesday October 6, at CU-Boulder’s Macky Auditorium Concert Hall. Doors will open at 6:15pm and the event will begin at 7:00pm.

Four of today’s most acclaimed satirists come together at Macky Auditorium for a one-of-a-kind discussion on the state of comedy today. The panel will be moderated by Scott Dikkers, founding editor of The Onion. He will be joined by Aasif Mandvi of “The Daily Show”, “Halal in the Family”, and HBO’s “The Brink”; Kevin Avery, writer for “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” and co-host of award-winning podcast “Denzel Washington is the Greatest Actor of All Time Period”; and Megan Amram, writer for “Parks and Recreation”, “Children’s Hospital”, and ”Silicon Valley” and author of “Science…for Her!”. The discussion centers on how satire shapes public discourse today. The panelists will also evaluate the current impact of social media and offer some insights on the future of comedy.

Tickets for the event will be $2 for CU-Boulder Students with a valid Buff OneCard and $10 for community members. Student tickets will be available starting September 21st on the first floor of the University Memorial Center (UMC) at the Distinguished Speakers Board Table, Monday through Friday, 10:30am to 3:00pm. Community tickets will be available online at macky.colorado.edu starting September 21st. There will be a Q&A portion with the audience following the event.

The Distinguished Speakers Board is a student-run cost center of the CU Student Government with the mission to bring the world’s greatest minds to the CU Boulder campus. For more information please visit http://CUdsb.org.

For more information about the event, or event accommodations, please contact the Distinguished Speakers Board at DSBchair@gmail.com or visit http://facebook.com/CUdsb.

Distinguished Speakers Board, Office: UMC 452

Emma Woodyard, Chair – dsbchair@gmail.com

Mark Haselmaier, Marketing & Public Relations Director – mark.haselmaier@colorado.edu

Brandon C. Meyers, Advisor, 303-492-7109, Office: UMC 231 – brandon.c.meyers@colorado.edu

The Distinguished Speakers Board is pleased to announce its first speaker of the year George Takei. Mr. Takei will speak on Oct. 26 at CU Boulder’s Macky Auditorium Concert Hall. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. and the event will begin at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets for the event will be $2 for CU Boulder students and $10 for CU Boulder faculty and staff. Both will need a valid Buff OneCard for purchase. Community tickets will be $25. Student and faculty/staff tickets will be available starting October 10 on the first floor of the University Memorial Center (UMC) at the Distinguished Speakers Board Table, Monday through Friday, 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. (cash only). Community tickets will be available online at macky.colorado.edu starting at 10:30 a.m. on Oct 10. There will be a Q&A portion with the audience following the event.

Takei first rose to prominence as an actor, starring in the Star Trek television series from 1966 to 1969 as Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the USS Enterprise. Takei’s return to fame in recent times can be attributed to his involvement in social media. With a Facebook page with over 9.7 million likes, Takei has leveraged this platform to support LGBTQ rights, discuss and promote human rights, and support Japanese Americans. Now Takei tours the country discussing all aspects of his life and has become a powerful voice in a wide range of important areas.

The Distinguished Speakers Board is a student-run cost center of CU Student Government with the mission to bring the world’s greatest minds to the CU Boulder campus. For more information please visit http://CUdsb.org

For more information about the event, or event accommodations, please contact the Distinguished Speakers Board at dsbchair@gmail.com or visit http://facebook.com/CUdsb.