R. Lynn Sauls Endowed Lecture Series
Michel Martin: Making Sense of a Polarized World
In conversation with David Barasoain
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About the Speaker
David French is a bestselling author and columnist for The New York Times.
A graduate of Harvard Law School in Massachusetts, French was previously a senior editor at The Dispatch, published in North Carolina, and a contributing writer at The Atlantic, which is based in D.C. He is a former constitutional litigator and a past president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. A former major in the United States Army Reserve and veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, French was awarded the Bronze Star.
His most recent book is Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation.
About the Moderator
An established audio producer who loves crafting well-told stories, David Barasoain is a 1990 alum of Southern Adventist University. His work has been featured on PRX and NPR, and he currently serves as the senior producer of Buried Truths, the Civil Rights cold-cases podcast, for which he won the Silver Gavel Award, the Robert F. Kennedy, and the George Foster Peabody Award.
In Atlanta, Georgia, he may be best known as the creator and managing editor of the long-running, 361-part series, Atlanta Sounds. It featured the power of the human voice and showcased everyday life in Atlanta. The stories ranged from two girls laughing on a swing to the reflections of life as a middle school teacher.
Former bosses and colleagues have called him “the glue,” “the host whisperer,” and even “the Joe DiMaggio of radio.”
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This annual lecture series celebrates Sauls’ legacy by inviting prominent journalists and top communication professionals to campus to inspire a new generation of truth seekers, storytellers, and influencers.
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