It’s summer! Join the chapter for food, drinks and conversation with special guest Mei-Ling Hopgood, author of Lucky Girl and How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm. WBEZ is generously hosting and providing treats, and we’ll also have beer courtesy of Goose Island.
Date: Friday, June 15
Time: 6 pm – 9 pm
Location: WBEZ’s Navy Pier terrace (848 E. Grand Ave., next to Riva restaurant)
Cost: Free for AAJA members/$11 for non-members
Please click here to RSVP.
Mei-Ling Hopgood is the author of Lucky Girl and How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm. She’s also a freelance journalist who has written for various publications, ranging from National Geographic Traveler and Marie Claire to the Miami Herald and the Boston Globe. She has worked as a reporter with the Detroit Free Press, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and in the Cox Newspapers Washington bureau. A recipient of the National Headliner Best in Show, she has received several national and international journalism awards. She is an associate professor at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Visit her website here.
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