TONIGHT: Journalist Nellie Moore to speak

Today, Feb. 17, 7 p.m.
Carr-Gottstein Building, APU campus

UAA/APU Books of the Year program presents a public lecture by Nellie Moore this evening, Feb. 17 at 7 p.m. at the Carr-Gottstein Building on the APU campus. Moore will discuss how she became an award-winning journalist, interesting issues she has covered in her career and important on-going issues in the state related to Alaska Natives.

Nellie Moore has been involved in Alaska journalism for more than 30 years. She has hosted Independent Native News; it was named 2001 Best Ongoing Radio Program by the Native American Journalists' Association. For five years, Moore was the award-winning host and producer of National Native News, as well as executive producer of the Friday Wellness Edition of Native America Calling, Native Word of the Day and Stories of Our People.

She helped produce Sesame Street's six Alaska segments that still air on the international program. Nellie is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2001 Wassaja Award, the highest honor awarded by the Native American Journalists Association, for "extraordinary service to Native Journalism." Nellie is Inupiaq Eskimo from Kikiktagruk (Kotzebue, Alaska), located above the Arctic Circle.

For more information on the lecture, please call (907) 786-6374.