Salon Lab
Salon Lab: An Evening with Mellody Hobson, Interviewed by Steve Edwards
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- 8000
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- 500 USD
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Wait list opportunity: Please email Connections@ucls.uchicago.edu to be added to the waitlist for this event if you are still interested.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014, 6 p.m.
Hosted by Elenne Song & Soheil Esmailzadeh and Peggy & Yung Lim at the Four Seasons Hotel Chicago
Mellody Hobson is president and chair of the board of trustees for Ariel Investment Trust. Beyond her work at Ariel, Hobson has become a nationally recognized voice on financial literacy and investor education. She is a regular contributor and analyst on finance, the markets, and economic trends for CBS News. She also contributes weekly money tips on the Tom Joyner Morning Show and pens a column for Black Enterprise magazine. As a passionate advocate for investor education, she is a spokesperson for the Ariel/Hewitt Study “401(k) Plans in Living Color” and the “Ariel Black Investor Survey,” both of which examine investing patterns among minorities. Hobson is chair of the board for DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. as well as a director of the Estée Lauder Companies Inc., Groupon Inc., and Starbucks Corporation. Her community outreach includes serving as the chair of After School Matters, a nonprofit that provides Chicago teens with high-quality out-of-school time programs. She is also a board member of the Lucas Cultural Arts Museum, the Chicago Public Education Fund, and the Sundance Institute and is on the executive committee of the Investment Company Institute’s board of governors. Hobson earned her bachelor’s degree from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She also received honorary doctorate degrees in the humanities from Howard University and St. Mary’s College.
Steve Edwards is the deputy director of programming at UChicago’s Institute of Politics. Edwards has covered politics and public policy as a journalist and program host for more than two decades. His work has appeared on the BBC, Bloomberg News, PBS, and numerous public radio stations around the United States. Most recently, he spent nearly 14 years at WBEZ, Chicago’s NPR member station, where he served as host of the acclaimed daily shows The Afternoon Shift and Eight Forty-Eight. Edwards has moderated numerous candidate debates, has hosted the weekly political show The Best Game in Town, and was the correspondent for a BBC documentary on Chicago’s political culture. A native of Kansas City, he was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan and earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from Amherst College.
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