Events

Virtual Making History Gala 2020


Tuesday, November 17, 2020, 6:30PM - 7:30PM
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6:00pm Sponsor Cocktail Corner
6:30pm Virtual Program

featuring JON MEACHAM
in conversation with
EMILY ROONEY 

 

Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian, contributing writer to The New York Times Book Review, and contributing editor at TIME. His #1 New York Times bestseller, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, looks at tumultuous periods in American history when presidents and ordinary citizens came together to rebuild a civic trust.

Emily is the creator and former host of Greater Boston. Since 1997, Emily has brought her journalistic credentials and deep knowledge of media, politics and culture to the WGBH audience and has earned numerous awards, including the National Press Club's prestigious Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism, a series of New England Emmy Awards, and Associated Press recognition for Best News/Talk Show. Before coming to WGBH, Emily was director of political coverage and special events at Fox Network in New York from 1994 to 1997. Prior to that, she was executive producer of ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. Emily also worked at WCVB-­TV in Boston from 1979 to 1993, where she served as news director for three years and as assistant news director before that.


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Honorary Chairs:
Governor Charlie Baker and First Lady Lauren Baker
Edward C. and Elizabeth B. Johnson
Henry Lee
CJ and Neil Musante
Mayor Martin J. Walsh








 

 

                                                                                                        

 

Featuring Jon Meacham in conversation with Emily Rooney, Host of "Beat the Press" on GBH!