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A keynote address with Joy Reid

Joy Ann Reid

A keynote address with Joy Reid

Joy Reid

Tuesday, January 23, 2018
6:30PM - 8:30PM (EST)

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Joy-Ann Reid, national correspondent for MSNBC and host of "AM Joy" and "The Reid Report," is the 2018 Community MLK Celebration keynote speaker. Douglas Blackmon, senior fellow of the Miller Center, will moderate. This event is event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. Tickets will be available starting December 8, 2017 at http://www.theparamount.net/. A free pre-event reception will begin at 5:30pm.This event is presented by the University of Virginia Office of the Vice President and Chief Officer for Diversity & Equity in partnership with the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, Lifetime Learning in the UVA Office of Engagement, and The Miller Center.

When
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
6:30PM - 8:30PM (EST)
Where
The Paramount Theater
215 East Main Street
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Speakers
Joy Reid

Joy Reid

Joy-Ann Reid is a national correspondent for MSNBC, host of “AM Joy” and “The Reid Report, and the author of the book Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons and the Racial Divide (William Morrow). Reid is the former Managing Editor of theGrio.com, a daily online news and opinion platform devoted to delivering stories and perspectives that reflect and affect African-American audiences. She joined theGrio.com with experience as a freelance columnist for the Miami Herald and as editor of the political blog The Reid Report. Reid is also a former talk radio producer and host for Radio One, and previously served as an online news editor for the NBC affiliate WTVJ in Miramar, Florida.

During the 2004 presidential campaign, Reid served as the Florida deputy communications director for the 527 "America Coming Together" initiative, and was a press aide in the final stretch of President Barack Obama's Florida campaign in 2008.

Reid’s columns and articles have appeared in New York magazine, The Daily Beast, the Miami Herald, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the South Florida Times and on Salon.com.

In May 2016, Reid was honored by the Miami Coalition of Christians and Jews with the Hank Meyer National Headliner Award, an award previously given to fellow journalists Chuck Todd and Tom Brokaw, among others. She is currently producing a documentary, "The Fight Years"—which takes a look into the sport of boxing during the 1950s and 1960s in Miami.

Reid graduated from Harvard University in 1991 with a concentration in film, and is a 2003 Knight Center for Specialized Journalism fellow.