Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Tues Oct 7 Rinku Sen
Rinku Sen will discuss 'The Accidental American: Immigration in the Age of Globalization'.
Magers & Quinn Booksellers
3038 Hennepin Ave. S
Minneapolis, MN
612.822.4611
http://www.magersandquinn.com
Rinku Sen is the President and Executive Director of the Applied Research Center (ARC) and Publisher of ColorLines magazine. She started her organizing career as a student activist at Brown University, fighting race, gender and class discrimination on campuses. She received a B.A. in Women's Studies from Brown University in 1988 and an M.S. in Journalism at Columbia University (2005). She has written extensively about immigration, community organizing and women's lives for a wide variety of publications including Third Force, AlterNet, tompaine.com, Race, Poverty & the Environment, Amerasia Journal and ColorLines. Her book, Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing (Jossey-Bass) was released in the fall of 2003. In 2004, Rinku was honored with the Asian American Journalists Association Dr. Suzanne J. Ahn Award for social justice coverage. Her latest book, The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization (Berrett-Koehler) will be released September 2008.
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