Jacobs, Lawrence R.2020-09-212020-09-212008-10-28https://hdl.handle.net/11299/216257Good Societies: Dialogue with Andrea Elliot and Lawrence R. Jacobs Andrea Elliott writes for the New York Times, where beginning in March 2006, she published a Pulitzer Prize-winning three-part series "An Imam in America," on the inner life of a mosque in Brooklyn. This exploration is part of a wider body of work by Elliott looking at Muslims in America after 9/11. Edelstein-Keller Visiting Writers Series co-presents with the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs and the School of Journalism a "Good Societies" dialogue with Lawrence R. Jacobs, Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair in Political Studies. Andrea Elliott covers Islam in America as a metropolitan reporter for the New York Times. She created the beat in 2005, focusing on the impact of 9/11 on American Muslims. Ms. Elliott joined the Times in May 2003. She started as a general assignment reporter on the metropolitan desk and alter covered the Bronx. Her stories have included an investigation of the private policing system at Macy's department stores, coverage of the bereaved children of 9/11 and reporting from Washington and overseas on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. From 2000 to 2003, Ms. Elliott was a reporter at The Miami Herald, where she covered crime, natural disasters, immigration trends, Latin American politics and the recount of the 2000 presidential election. Ms. Elliott earned a B.A. degree in comparative literature from Occidental College in 1996. She took an M.S. degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in 1999, graduating first in her class and winning a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship. Her journalistic honors include awards from the New York Press Association, the Newswomen's Club of New York and the Society of the Silurians.enANDREA ELLIOTTPresentation