Berry College welcomes Cokie Roberts, veteran political commentator and senior news analyst for ABC and NPR, as the speaker for the upcoming Shatto Lecture Series.
Roberts will give an "Insider's View of Washington D.C." at 8 p.m. March 29 in the Steven J. Cage Athletic and Recreation Center.
Admission is free, but tickets are required for entry. Please call 706-236-2226 for details.
Roberts was co-anchor of "This Week with Sam Donaldson & Cokie Roberts" from 1996-2002. In her more than 40 years in broadcasting, she has won countless awards, including three Emmys. She has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame and was cited by the American Women in Radio and Television as one of the 50 greatest women in the history of broadcasting.
Roberts, along with her husband, Steven V. Roberts, are contributing editors to USA Weekend Magazine, and together they wrote New York Times bestseller "From this Day Forward," an account of their more than 40-year marriage and other marriages in American history. She has also written a number-one bestseller, "We Are Our Mothers' Daughters," an account of women's roles and relationships throughout American history. Roberts' histories of women in America's founding era—"Founding Mothers," published in 2004 and "Ladies of Liberty" in 2008, also became instant bestsellers.
She has a bachelor's degree in political science from Wellesley College as well as more than 20 honorary degrees, and serves on the boards of several non-profit institutions and on the President's Commission on Service and Civic Participation.
The Gloria Shatto Lecture Series honors the memory of Georgia's first female college president. Shatto, who served from 1980-1998, believed strongly that there is more to a college education than what can be learned in the classroom. The Shatto Lecture Series honors her vision by bringing to Berry speakers of international renown.
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