About this Event
The World Affairs Council will present former CNN Beijing bureau chief Mike Chinoy and humanitarian aid worker Kathi Zellweger at a special Instant Issues event from noon to 1:30 on Saving Lives in North Korea on Wednesday, Septemer 30 in the 9th Floor Gallery, 1350 Main Street in downtown Springfield.
Kathi Zellweger is a senior aid manager with over thirty years of field experience in Hong Kong, China, and North Korea. She was based in Pyongyang for five years (2006–2011) as the North Korea country director for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), an office of the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Before joining SDC, from 1978 to 2006, Zellweger worked in a senior post for the Catholic Agency Caritas in Hong Kong, where she played a key role in pioneering Caritas’s involvement in China and North Korea.
Northampton native Mike Chinoy is a nonresident scholar at the 21st Century China Center at the University of California, San Diego. Previously, he was a nonresident senior fellow at the University of Southern California’s US-China Institute. Before joining USC, he spent twenty-four years as a foreign correspondent for CNN. He was the network’s first bureau chief in Beijing, bureau chief in Hong Kong, and senior Asia correspondent. He also worked for CBS News and NBC News in Hong Kong.
Copies of their new book, Miss Kathi: Saving Lives in North Korea, will be available for purchase from Rumspringa Books at the event.
For those who purchase a meal, box lunches with a choice of sandwich--turkey, tuna, roast beef, vegetarian--will be available (first come, first served). Lunches also include deli salad, a cookie, chips, and soda or water. (Attendees may bring their own lunch or choose not to eat.)
Registration deadline for a lunch provided is Friday, September 25.
The Instant Issues series is generously sponsored by Wilbraham & Monson Academy, Skoler Abbott & Sir Speedy
Media Sponsor: The Republican
Special thanks to NAI Plotkin
The World Affairs Council of Western Massachusetts is a nonpartisan educational organization dedicated to fostering civil discourse on international events and foreign policy. Our speakers' opinions are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the World Affairs Council or our affiliates.
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1350 Main St, 1350 Main Street, Springfield, United States
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