Event
When the Story is You
Singular first-person journalism. A Kavli Conversation with Sabrina Imbler and Helen Santoro, moderated by Robin Lloyd.
March 1, 2023
6:30 PM
NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute
7th Floor Commons
20 Cooper Square
New York, NY 10003
and online at journalism.nyu.edu/kc
Speakers
Sabrina Imbler’s new and widely acclaimed essay collection, How Far the Light Reaches, blends autobiography and science writing. Imbler is also a staff writer at Defector. Previously they worked as a reporting fellow on the science and health desk of The New York Times.
Helen Santoro reports on the brain, health disparities, and the LGBTQ+ community. Born without a left temporal lobe, she wrote about it in the New York Times. She has also written for High Country News, Scientific American, Slate, Smithsonian, WIRED and many other publications.
Moderator Robin Lloyd a freelance writer and editor, as well as a contributing editor at Scientific American. A visiting scholar at the Carter Institute of Journalism, she is also the president of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing.
Kavli Conversations are hosted by NYU’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program with support from the Kavli Foundation. Events are open to the public. Online livestream will begin at 6:30pm ET.