Event
Marcia Biggs Visits Swarthmore College, Launching Campus Consortium Partnership
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September 24, 2019 | 4:30 PM EDT TO 6:30 PM EDTADDRESS:
Swarthmore College Kohlberg Hall Scheuer Room - Multi-Purpose Room
500 College Avenue
Kohlberg Hall Scheuer Room - Multi-Purpose Room
Swarthmore, PA 19081
Project
Inside Yemen
As the conflict in Yemen enters its fourth year, PBS NewsHour's Marcia Biggs travels to the Middle...
As one of the newest members of the Pulitzer Center's Campus Consortium, Swarthmore College launches the partnership with a visit on Tuesday, September 24, 2019, from award-winning journalist Marcia Biggs.
Biggs has more than a decade of experience in the Middle East, and her expertise lies in covering conflict and humanitarian crises.
She is one of the few U.S. television journalists to cover the crisis in Yemen, creating a four-part Pulitzer Center-supported series for PBS NewsHour with her project "Inside Yemen." Most recently, her Pulitzer Center-supported work took her to Honduras to report on the migration crisis.
Ann Peters, university and community director, joins Biggs for the visit to Swarthmore that includes class visits and fellowship information session. The main event of the visit is a lecture by Biggs, at 4:30 pm, primarily focusing on her reporting from Yemen.
![Migrants set out from Honduras to the United States as part of a so-called "caravan." Image by Julia Galiano-Rios. Honduras, 2019.](/sites/default/files/03-31-19/caravan-project.jpg "Migrants set out from Honduras to the United States as part of a so-called "caravan." Image by Julia Galiano-Rios. Honduras, 2019.")
As plans emerge for a another caravan of migrants to leave Honduras, PBS NewsHour goes to the origin...
