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Siena Center Presents Alex Kotlowitz
Dominican University’s Siena Center will kick off a series of lectures on Diversity, Immigration and Justice with a lecture by acclaimed author Alex Kotlowitz. Kotlowitz will present Chicago Stories From the Ground Up: Celebrating the Uncelebrated on Thursday, January 20 at 7:30 p.m. at the Priory Campus, 7200 W. Division Street, River Forest.
Kotlowitz is the author of the recently published book Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago. He also wrote the critically acclaimed books The Other Side of the River and There Are No Children Here, which was adapted for television in 1993 as an ABC Movie-of-the-Week starring Oprah Winfrey. His stories of life in Chicago neighborhoods are deeply immersed in the diversity of poor and working Chicagoans, people of color, and immigrants from all over the world.
Kotlowitz is the recipient of the John LaFarge Memorial Award for Interracial Justice by New York’s Catholic Interracial Council, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the George Polk Award.
For more information about this program, please contact the Siena Center at (708) 714-9110 or visit the Web site at www.siena.dom.edu.
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