Award-winning journalist, author to visit CMU next week
Award-winning journalist and 2014 Harvard Nieman Fellow Issac Bailey will visit Central Michigan University on Oct. 1 and 2.
On Monday, Oct. 1, the Student Disabilities Services Center will host a luncheon with Bailey to kick off Disability Awareness Month. It will take place in the Bovee University Center Rotunda. Students should RSVP with Student Disabilities Services Director Lynne L’hommedieu at (989) 774-2568.
Bailey will discuss his book, "My Brother Moochie: Regaining Dignity in the Face of Crime, Poverty, and Racism in the American South," at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 2 in the Bovee University Center Auditorium. He will hold a book signing following his speech. The event is free and open to the public.
Bailey is a former student of Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer A.T. Miller. Miller said Bailey experienced PTSD from his childhood, "one manifestation of which was a stutter that rendered him almost unable to speak for many years."
Bailey will also be speaking to various classes in the department of journalism and meeting with Men About Change, a mentoring organization for men of color while he is at CMU.
The Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion is sponsoring Bailey's visit.
