Pulitzer Center Journalists to Speak at Holy Cross on Resilience in Haiti

WORCESTER, Mass. – Lisa Armstrong, Andre Lambertson, and Fred de Sam Lazaro, three award-winning journalists who cover international affairs, will present “Resilience in a Ravaged Nation: Journalists Report Back from Haiti” on March 29 at 7 p.m. in Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross. The talk, which is free and open to the public, is presented by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and cosponsored by the political science, peace and conflict studies, Africana Studies departments and the Student Government Association.

Armstrong and Lambertson are currently working on a project titled “Resilience in a Ravaged Nation: Haiti, After the Earthquake,” capturing portraits of hope and resilience as Haitian communities rebuild in the wake of catastrophe.

Armstrong has written for several publications, including The Washington Post, National Geographic, Parade, Ms., Essence, Redbook, USA Weekend and O, The Oprah Magazine. She is an adjunct professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and has also taught at New York University.

In addition to an M.A. in journalism, Armstrong has a master’s degree in urban planning with a concentration in international development and has written and edited for organizations such as the World Bank and UNICEF.

Lambertson is a photojournalist, teacher, and filmmaker committed to documenting stories of hope and healing. He has taught at the International Center for Photography for the past six years, and teaches photography to children at the Brooklyn Museum and to former child soldiers in West Africa.

His photo essays on social issues have appeared in magazines, books, foundations, advocacy organizations and museums including Time, US News and World Report, Life, National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, The Ford Foundation, The George Soros Foundation and The Smithsonian Museum. Lambertson filmed a documentary on the U.N. mission in Haiti before the earthquake.

Also joining in the panel, De Sam Lazaro is director of the Project for Under-Told Stories at St. John's University, in Collegeville, Minnesota, a program that combines international journalism and education. He has served with The NewsHour since 1985 and is a regular contributor and substitute anchor for PBS' Religion and Ethics Newsweekly. He also has directed films from India and the Democratic Republic of Congo for the acclaimed documentary series, Wide Angle. Fred has reported from 35 countries: from Haiti to sub-Saharan Africa to south Asia, he has focused on stories that are under-reported in the mainstream U.S. media. In addition to regularly covering AIDS, public health concerns, development issues and social entrepreneurship, he led the first American crew to report on the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region.

For more information on their project visit the Pulitzer Center Web site or contact Claire Luke ’10, student campus liaison for the Pulitzer Center.