About this Event
What To Do When The World is Falling Apart: The Spring 2026 Chubb Discussion featuring Ann Curry
- Date & Time: Thursday, March 5, 2026 at 4:30 – 5:45PM
- Location: Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall (SSS) Room 114
- Hosted by Timothy Dwight College
- Registration (free) required; tickets are open to Yale and the general public
Timothy Dwight Head of College Professor Michal Beth Dinkler will welcome Spring 2026 Chubb Fellow Ann Curry to campus on March 5, 2026. Head Dinkler will interview Ann Curry on her life and work, and hold a more general discussion about maintaining our humanity in times of crisis.
The event will take place from 4:30 - 5:45 PM in Room 114 of Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall. Because of limited seating, tickets (free) are required. There will be a short Q&A towards the end.
About Ann Curry:
Ann Curry is an award-winning journalist. A former NBC Network news anchor and national and international correspondent, she has reported from conflicts in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Darfur, Congo, the Central African Republic, Kosovo, Serbia, Lebanon, and Israel; on nuclear tensions from North Korea and Iran; and from numerous humanitarian disasters, including the tsunamis in Southeast Asia and Japan, floods in Pakistan, and the massive 2010 earthquake in Haiti, where her appeal via Twitter/X (@AnnCurry) is credited for helping to speed the arrival of humanitarian planes.
She contributed groundbreaking journalism on Climate Change when it was being denied, interviewing scientists and indigenous people documenting glacial melt in the Arctic, the Antarctic (where she spent time inside an expedition hut left by Shackleton) and on Mount Kilimanjaro, as well as documenting the deepening drought in the American West. She is also known for her focused reporting from inside Iran, amplifying the voices of women, human rights activists and young people, including Green Revolution activists. She broke the first news of Iran's interest in negotiating a nuclear agreement with the outside world.
Ann also delivered the first live news report from the South Pole to an American audience; tracked the AIDS epidemic in South Africa and Botswana; documented Al Qaeda's link to Al Shabaab terrorists in Somalia and Kenya; and has traveled to Chad, Liberia and Pakistan for stories, among other places.
Ann has conducted a long list of exclusive and news breaking interviews, which have included Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, President Ahmadinejad, President Khatami and Foreign Minister Zarif; Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and First Lady Asma al-Assad; Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto, President Ali Zadari and President Musharraf; Turkey's President Erdogan; Sudan's President Omar Bashir and South Sudan's President Salva Kiir; Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf; Chad's President Idriss Deby; as well as U.S. Presidents George Prescott Bush, Bill Clinton, George Walker Bush and Barack Obama, Vice-President Joe Biden and Jill Biden, Secretaries of State John Kerry and Hillary Clinton and First Lady Laura Bush, the Dalai Lama, Sir Edmund Hillary, George Clooney, Maya Angelou, Angelina Jolie, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska, and Russia’s opposition activist Yulia Navalnaya, among others.
Ann has also executive produced and reported a documentary series with PBS, We’ll Meet Again, reconnecting people affected by world events and a medical series with Lionsgate, Chasing the Cure. connecting specialists worldwide with underinsured Americans.
She was honored with the Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement in Journalism award in 2022. She has 7 national news Emmys for her reporting, as well as numerous Murrow, Gracie, National Headliner and Webby Awards. The NAACP has honored her with an Excellence in Reporting award, and Women in Communications has awarded her a Matrix.
Ann has also been given numerous humanitarian awards, including from Refugees International, Americares, Save the Children, and the Muhammad Ali Center. The Simon Wiesenthal Center awarded her a Medal of Valor, for her dedication to reporting about genocide.
Ann teaches journalism at Yale University, where she is a current Chubb Fellow and has been a Poynter Fellow. She is also a member of the Fellowship of Trumbull College. She is a former Sine Fellow at American University, where she taught journalism. She regularly speaks to large groups, contributes to documentaries, is a UNHCR High Profile Supporter, and is writing a memoir.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, 1 Prospect Street, New Haven, United States
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