MKA's 2016 Hemmeter Lecture Series presents "The ISIS you thought you knew: Where they came from, Where they're going, and what fuels them en route

On Tuesday, February 9th, the Montclair Kimberley Academy History Department proudly announces "The ISIS you thought you knew: Where they came from, Where they're going, and what fuels them en route" presented by Jan Goodwin as their 2015-2016 Hemmeter Lecture Series. The lecture will take place at 7:00 p.m. at MKA's Upper School Campus in the New Academic Center, 6 Lloyd Road, Montclair.

A longtime human-rights activist, Jan Goodwin is the recipient of three Amnesty International Media Awards. She was one of four journalists featured in an hour-long PBS-TV documentary Witnesses on journalists who covered the Afghan war. She served on the White House Cambodia Crisis Committee. Other national honors include a Frontpage Award for Outstanding Journalism for her War Torn series, for which she was honored by the White House; a Clarion for an anti-child pornography series; and two Emmas for political coverage. Goodwin is the winner of the World Hunger Award on the Ethiopian famine.She is also a Soros Foundation Media Fellow, and a Senior Fellow at Brandeis University's Schuster Institute of Investigative Journalism. In 2011, she was awarded the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism; a Clarion Awardfor an expose on the treatment of political asylees, plus a second Clarion for an investigative article onthe poor VA health treatment of female veterans. This is the first time a journalist has won two Clarions in the same year. In 2013, she won a Kiplinger Fellowship. In addition, she holds many national association awards.

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The event, which is open to the public and free of charge. For more information, contact David Hessler at dhessler@mka.org or call 973-842-2882.