[Chat] Lisa Simeone to speak Sunday on her political activism

[Emil Volcheck]

Hello, neighbors,

Lisa Simeone will be speaking at the Baltimore Ethical
Society this Sunday morning (Jan. 6th) at 10:30 am.

Title:
“Political Activism: A Journalist’s Perspective”

by Lisa Simeone, Radio Host, Writer, and Activist

Details:
Lisa Simeone has been working in public radio for 30 years. In October
2011, she was blacklisted by National Public Radio for her political
activities with the Occupy Movement. She will speak about her career
and her political activism.

Speaker Bio:
Lisa Simeone has hosted Weekend All Things Considered, Weekend Edition
Sunday, Performance Today, World of Opera, Soundprint, the
Metropolitan Opera, and countless live specials. Her radio career
began at WBJC in Baltimore, followed by work at WETA in Washington,
D.C. After that – during her ten years at Baltimore's WJHU – she
developed a loyal following for her unusual mix of programming, that
offered classical, folk, jazz as well as provocative reports,
interviews, and call-in shows on a wide variety of subjects, including
anthropology, neuroscience, philosophy, and media criticism (though
she confesses that her favorite reports were on bocce, the Hon Man of
Baltimore, and the virtues of a well-fitting bra!). After being
blacklisted by NPR, she has still retained two radio gigs. Her writing
has appeared for the past decade in Baltimore’s STYLE magazine, which
she also serves as Beauty Editor, in addition to Urbanite, City Paper,
and the Baltimore Sun, for which she contributed book reviews and
op-eds for several years (until it stopped paying freelancers). She
also writes for and edits TSA News, an independent blog covering the
Transportation Security Administration. A 1980 graduate of St. John’s
College in Annapolis, she received her M.A. from the Writing Seminars
at Johns Hopkins University in 1997 and lives in Charles Village.

The Baltimore Ethical Society is in the Congress Building
at 306 W. Franklin St.  The website is http://bmorethical.org/ .

Thanks,

--Emil


-- 
Emil Volcheck
volcheck at acm.org
http://EmilVolcheck.com/