CHAPEL HILL - Nadine Strossen, former president of the American Civil Liberties Union, will deliver a Feb. 13 keynote address at the annual Human Rights Week event sponsored by the Campus Y Social Justice Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Strossen's talk is entitled, "Defining Human Rights for All: From Right to Left & From Right to Wrong."
Embraced as one of the most influential women in constitutional law, civil liberties, and international human rights, Nadine Strossen is committed to the betterment of social justice. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard, and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. After practicing law for nine years, she became a professor at New York Law School, and from 1991 to 2008, Strossen served as the first woman and youngest person ever to serve as president of the ACLU.
WHAT: Human Rights Week Keynote Address by former ACLU President Nadine Strossen, entitled, "Defining Human Rights for All: From Right to Left & From Right to Wrong"
WHEN: Wednesday, February 13, at 7 p.m.
WHERE: Fedex Global Education Center at the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, 301 Pittsboro Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516. Parking available underneath the Global FedEx Center building.
The event is free and open to the public.