Award-winning journalist shares experiences from American roadtrip
Posted November 24, 2004FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
British-born Gary Younge, columnist and New York correspondent for The Guardian, will speak on Nov. 30 at 3 p.m. in DeMeester Theater. Younge will share his experiences from his recent pre-election road trip to explore the American reality. These experiences were also the basis for a series of articles published by The Guardian in effort to cover the U.S. Presidential election this fall.
About Gary Younge
A Lawrence Stern Fellowship recipient, Younge has won a number of awards for his journalism, including "Newspaper Journalist of the Year" for three years in a row from the Ethnic Minority Media Awards, and is the author of the 1999 book No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey through the Deep South, which has just been released in America.
Born and raised in Stevenage, 30 miles north of London, to Barbadian parents, Younge left home at 17 to work as a teacher in a refugee school in Sudan. Afterwards, he went to Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh where he translated and interpreted French and Russian. During his five years at the University, Younge spent one year working full time as the vice president of the student council and another studying at both the Sorbonne in Paris and the Leningrad Philological Institute. Upon graduation, Younge moved to London and was awarded a bursary from The Guardian to do a postgraduate degree in journalism at City University in London. A year later, he joined the newspaper.
Younge currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Tara Mack.
