MAYDAY! Conference

10 a.m.

Welcoming Ceremony & Interview with Thomas Friedman
Christ Chapel

Friedman is the author of From Beirut to Jerusalem, which won both the National Book and the Overseas Press Club Awards in 1989. The Lexus and the Olive Tree, winner of the 2000 Overseas Press Club Award for best non-fiction book on foreign policy. Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11, issued in 2002, consists of columns Friedman published about September 11. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, received the inaugural Goldman Sachs/Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award. In addition is wrote Hot, Flat, and Crowded, That Used to Be Us: How American Fell Behind in the World We Invented and How We Can Come Back, co-written with Michael Mandelbaum, and Thank you For Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations 2.0.Thomas L. Friedman, an internationally known author and journalist, has won the Pulitzer Prize three times for his work at The New York Times. His foreign affairs column in The New York Times reports on US domestic politics and foreign policy, Middle East conflicts, international economics, environment, biodiversity, and energy.

Mr. Friedman was interviewed by Roshini Rajkumar.
A multi-media content creator, Roshini Rajkumar is a licensed attorney whose first career as a TV broadcaster laid the groundwork for her current life as a talk show and digital host, executive coach, and mainstage speaker. A licensed attorney, she is a commentator on brand dynamics, leadership, and crisis communication for media outlets around the country and a regular contributor for Breaking the News on KARE-TV, Twin Cities Live on KSTP-TV, and Business for Breakfast on Denver’s KDMT. Interviewing thousands of people on television and radio bedrocks her roles as WCCO Radio show host, Real Leaders with Roshini podcast creator, and media commentator. Find her book, Communicate That! 3d edition, and other powerful presence content at www.OwnYourWOW.com

11:45 a.m. 

Journalism and Peacebuilding Forum
Jane Kirtley provided the opening to a discussion about the free press, including the role of citizens.
Professor Jane Kirtley is the Silha Professor of Media Ethics and Law at the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota, and directs The Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law. Kirtley has written friend-of-the-court briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as two books, many book chapters, and articles for scholarly journals and for the popular and professional press, including The New York Times, The Conversation, and the Guardian (UK). Kirtley served as executive director of The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press for 14 years.