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Discussion about the recent Sunday Globe Magazine feature ‘Kate Price Remembers Something Terrible’
October 13, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Join Boston Globe reporter Janelle Nanos and Wellesley resident and child sex trafficking survivor Kate Price for a discussion about the recent Sunday Globe Magazine feature Kate Price Remembers Something Terrible. The conversation, moderated by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former Wellesley resident Eileen McNamara, will give the audience a behind-the-scenes look at their 10-year collaboration which resulted in this haunting and illuminating examination of child sex trafficking in Appalachia, memory, and healing.
Kate Price is a visiting scholar at the Wellesley Centers for Women, and a senior research associate at the health and human services research and evaluation firm Advocates for Human Potential. She was also a visiting scholar at the Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center. A children’s advocate, she serves on the National Centers for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) Child Sex Trafficking Expert Working Group and her work has been published in numerous books, scholarly journals, blogs, and newspapers.
Janelle Nanos is a business reporter at the Boston Globe, and thrives on diving deep into the ideas, people, and trends that drive Boston’s economy. She has previously worked at Boston Magazine, National Geographic Traveler, and New York Magazine, and she currently teaches a class in magazine writing at Boston College. She was a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism.
Eileen McNamara is the former chair of the Brandeis University Journalism Program and has authored numerous books, including Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World. She was also an award-winning reporter and columnist for The Boston Globe, where she won an individual Pulitzer Prize for Commentary and contributed to the newspaper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of clergy sex abuse in the Archdiocese of Boston. Her writing continues to appear on Cognoscenti, the commentary pages of WBUR.org, Boston’s National Public Radio station.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Wellesley Free Libraries.
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