Working For Change: A Keynote Presentation By Journalist/author Barbara Ehrenreich

Saturday, February 23, 11:30am,
Lunch is included in the price of ticket
Northside Aztlan Community Center
112 East Willow Street, Fort Collins, CO_80524
Presented by Beet Street

Journalist, historian, and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of fourteen books. In 2001, Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America became a New York Times bestseller, and has since sold over one million copies. Nickel and Dimed, a trenchant examination of working-class poverty that chronicles Ehrenreich’s own attempt to live on minimum wage, is now required reading at more than 600 colleges and universities, from University of the Ozarks to Yale University to Western Wyoming Community College. In 2005, Ehrenreich’s _Bait and Switch, also a New York Times bestseller, exposed the ever more prevalent phenomenon of white-collar unemployment.

A frequent contributor to Harper’s and The Nation, Ehrenreich has been a columnist at the New York Times and Time magazine. In 2004, she received the Nation Institute/Puffin Foundation Prize for Creative Citizenship, given annually to an American who challenges the status quo “through distinctive, courageous, imaginative, socially responsible work of significance.” Ms. Ehrenreich’s next book, forthcoming from Metropolitan Books in the winter of 2007, is a history of the celebration of communal joy. Ehrenreich lives near Key West, Florida.

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