See Anya Kamenetz, Village Voice reporter and Pulitzer Prize-nominee
Come to a discussion with Anya Kamenetz, author of Generation Debt: Why now is a terrible time to be Young, about the new economics of being young, and what to do about it.
Thursday March 2, 2006 from 5:30-6:30 P.M.
Jimenez Room of the Stamp Student Union
(2nd Floor)
FREE PIZZA & REFRESHMENTS
Contact: Lee Fang lhfang@gmail.com for more information
Here's a blurb about the book...
"The nature of youth is to question. So when 24-year-old Anya Kamenetz started out as a freelance journalist, she began asking hard questions about her generation for which no one seemed to have good answers. Why were college students nationwide graduating with an average of nearly $20,000 in student loans? Why were her friends thousands of dollars in credit-card debt? Why did so many jobs for people under thirty-five involve a plastic name badge, last only short-term, and not include benefits? With record deficits and threats to Social Security, what kind of future was shaping up for our nation's kids?"
Here's a little about Anya from www.anyakamenetz.com
She has written for The New York Times, the Washington Post, New York Magazine, Salon, Slate, The Nation, and the Village Voice. In 2004, the Voice nominated her for a Pulitzer Prize in feature writing for her work on the series "Generation Debt: The New Economics of Being Young." In January 2005, the series became a biweekly column. Reporting assignments have taken her to the Palestinian territories, post-Katrina Louisiana, and the streets of New York City, during protests of the 2004 Republican National Convention, where she barely evaded capture by plastic netting. Generation Debt: Why Now is a Terrible Time to be Young (Riverhead Books, 2006) is her first book.
This event is sponsored by Campus Progress, College Democrats, The Terrapist