Lesley Stahl to Speak in Phoenix
Emmy award-winning veteran journalist and author Lesley Stahl will be featured at the Sandra Day O’Connor Institute Distinguished Speakers Series luncheon April 26 at the Arizona Biltmore.
The WINGS Women’s Board of the Phoenix Children’s Hospital Foundation serves as a collaborative partner for the occasion. Stahl will discuss her distinguished career including her book, Becoming Grandma: The Joys and Science of the New Grandparenting, a New York Times bestseller.
Gena Bonsall and Penny Gunning are co-chairs for the event. The emcee and moderator will be Christopher Callahan, dean of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. Callahan will interview Stahl during a Q&A session following her presentation.
Stahl’s career has been marked by political scoops, surprising features and award-winning reporting. She became a 60 Minutes correspondent in 1991. Previous to joining 60 Minutes, she served as CBS News White House correspondent during the Carter, Reagan and part of the George H.W. Bush presidencies. She also hosted Face the Nation from 1983 to 1991.
After four decades as a reporter, Stahl says her most transformative experience of her life was not covering the White House, interviewing heads of state or researching stories at 60 Minutes. It was becoming a grandmother. Along with personal accounts, she speaks with scientists and doctors about physiological changes that occur in women when they have grandchildren, with anthropologists about why in evolutionary terms there are grandmothers and with psychiatrists about the therapeutic effects of grandchildren on both grandmothers and grandfathers.
For more information about the luncheon, call 602-730-3300 or email info@oconnorinstitute.org.
