New Canaan Library and the UN Committee of New Canaan announce that Sarah Chayes, Senior Fellow in Carnegie’s Democracy and Rule of Law Program, and author of Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security, is guest speaker for the 10th Annual Anita Houston Lecture.
The lecture will be held Sunday, Jan. 15, at 2 p.m. in the library’s Adrian Lamb Room. Please register for this program online at newcanaanlibrary.org.
A former award winning journalist for National Public Radio, as well as a military advisor, Chayes has a unique perspective and much to impart on the lecture’s topic, Dangers of Corruption, Abroad and at Home. As well as speaking about her experiences in the Middle East, she will touch upon her Los Angeles Times book prize-winning narrative, Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security. Copies of the book will be available for purchase, courtesy of Elm Street Books.
Before joining Carnegie, Chayes served as special assistant to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen. She participated in cabinet-level decision-making on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Arab Spring, and traveled with Admiral Mullen frequently to these regions. After covering the fall of the Taliban for National Public Radio, Chayes left journalism in 2002 to settle in Kandahar, Afghanistan, until she took a post advising commanders of the international military force in Kabul in 2009. From 1996 to 2001, Chayes was NPR’s Paris correspondent. She shared the 1999 Foreign Press Club and Sigma Delta Chi awards for her work on the Kosovo conflict.
Sarah Chayes is the guest speaker for the Anita Houston Memorial Lecture at the New Canaan Library, Jan. 15.
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