Retired Army Reserve Colonel Ann Wright turned peace activist is scheduled to give a free public lecture from 4 to 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 16 in Warren Auditorium, Ives Hall 101. The event is part of the War & Peace Lecture Series.
Wright was recently denied entry to Canada because she had previously been arrested in acts of non-violent civil disobedience.
Her topic will be "Voices of Conscience," drawing from her book of that same name scheduled to be published this fall. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Ann Wright resigned from the U.S. Foreign Service on March 19, 2003, while serving as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Mongolia, in protest of the Iraq war.
Wright joined the Foreign Service in 1987 and served as Deputy Chief of Mission of US Embassies in Sierra Leone, Micronesia and briefly in Afghanistan. She received the State Department's Award for Heroism for her actions during the evacuation of 2,500 persons from the civil war in Sierra Leone, the largest evacuation since the evacuation of Saigon in 1974.
Wright was on the first State Department team to go to Kabul, Afghanistan. She helped re-open the U.S. Embassy in Kabul in December 2001 and worked in Afghanistan for five months, serving in the last month as Deputy Chief of Mission.
For further information, contact Rick Luttman, War and Peace Series, (707) 664-2543.
