#MeToo-Why Has It Taken So Long?

Speaker: 
Florence George Graves
 
01 Apr 2019
 
7:30 PM
 
Sun Room, Memorial Union

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Florence George Graves is an award-winning journalist and founding director of the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. Her reporting helped expose the imbalance of power between women and men in Washington long before the #Metoo era. Graves authored investigative reports for the Washington Post on the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings and broke the story of sexual harassment and abuse of power by U.S. Sen. Bob Packwood, resulting in his censure and forced resignation. She was the founding editor of Common Cause Magazine in the 1980s, which won major awards for repeatedly breaking national stories on money in politics, congressional ethics, and regulatory mismanagement. Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics

Florence George Graves received her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin and her master's from the University of Arizona where she was inducted into their School of Journalism Hall of Fame in 2018. She has been a resident scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center since 1996. The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism is one of the earliest nonprofit news models and was the first independent reporting center based at a university.