Robin Wright

Robin Wright has reported from more than 130 countries on six continents covering nine wars and several revolutions for the most noteworthy publications of our times, including The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The (London) Sunday Times and The Christian Science Monitor.

Wright will share her insights on international affairs and foreign policy with Walden University doctoral students and faculty when she delivers the residency plenary at the October academic residency in the Chicago area.

Wright’s foreign tours include five years in the Middle East, two years in Europe, seven years in Africa, and several years as a roving foreign correspondent traveling through Latin America and Asia. The author of five books, most recently Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East in 2008, she now covers foreign policy for The Washington Post.

Nominated for five Pulitzer prizes, she has received the 1989 National Magazine Award for her reportage from Iran in The New Yorker and the Overseas Press Club Award for “best reporting in any medium requiring exceptional courage and initiative” for coverage of the Angolan wars. She is also the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation grant.

‘Perspectives on the World’ series
The plenary is part of Walden’s “Perspectives on the World” series that brings diverse global views to the Walden community. Past speakers include Jeffrey Goldberg, a national correspondent for The Atlantic and former correspondent for The New Yorker. At Walden’s April academic residency in Lansdowne, Va., Goldberg shared his views on the possibility for reconciliation in the Middle East. At the June international residency held at the University of Liverpool, Dr. John Belchem, a University of Liverpool professor, discussed Liverpool’s history and how the city is preparing for the future.

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