The OAB is pleased to be a Satellite Partner for the International Affairs Forum, a program of Northwestern Michigan College. For the fourth year, we will be live streaming IAF's regular programming and providing a wine reception prior to each event. This is an exclusive opportunity to bring important conversations to members of the OAB community for whom traveling to Traverse City may pose a barrier.

The OAB will have a host on site to share any questions from the audience through a direct chat with IAF. This is a FREE EVENT.

NEW! Soup + Bread in partnership with Peninsula Provisions.
$10 per person

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Join us on Thursday, May 28 for a discussion with Deborah Amos

About the Speaker

Deborah Amos is the Ferris Professor of Journalism in Residence at Princeton University. A longtime international correspondent, Amos spent much of her award-winning career at National Public Radio. Her reporting on the Middle East and refugees in the U.S. regularly featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, and All Things Considered. She recently covered the Syrian and Iraqi refugee crises, the economy in the Middle East, and the Arab youth surge. Previously she reported for ABC’s Nightline and PBS’s Frontline.

Amos is the author of two books: Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East, and Lines in the Sand: Desert Storm and the Remaking of the Arab World. She has won several major journalism honors, including a Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women’s Media Foundation, a George Foster Peabody Award, an Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award, and an Emmy.

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About the Moderator

Elizabeth Jensen is a Knight Wallace Great Lakes News Fellow 2025-26. Jensen consults on journalism ethics and standards and is the co-chair of Press Forward Northern Michigan, an organization working to support local journalism in the region. A longtime media beat reporter, Jensen is an expert on U.S. public media and served as NPR’s fifth public editor/ombudsman. In that role, she represented the interests of the public in the newsroom, and created a series of live events where NPR journalists discussed their newsgathering processes and ethical decisions. Over her career, she has reported for the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times, was a regular contributor to The New York Times, investigated vegetarian marshmallow fraud for CNBC, and taught food journalism at New York University. A native of Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, she moved back to her home state in 2021 and has been working since then to understand the changing information landscape.

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About The Giles Press Freedom Lecture

This annual programming is supported in part by a gift to IAF from the late Robert & Nancy Giles. Bob was a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, editor, and author who served our community as a former IAF Advisory Board member. He was a lifetime champion of press freedom and journalistic integrity.

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Interested in supporting the work of the International Affairs Forum at Northwestern Michigan College? More details HERE.