Winsted – CT State Northwestern Community College is pleased to present award-winning journalist and author Louise Story on Thursday, October 17, 2024, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Draper Conference Room, lower level of the Learning Resource Center, 2 Park Place East, Winsted. The evening will begin with a reception from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. after which Story will speak to the audience both in person and virtually on her recent book, Fifteen Cents on the Dollar. The event is free and open to the public.
Fifteen Cents on the Dollar is a comprehensive, deeply human look at Black-white wealth-gap history, told through the lives of Black Americans, as well as through the development of a new bank intended to help close the Black-white wealth gap. Seasoned journalist and academics Story and Ebony Reed provide crucial insights on American economic equity, Black business ownership, and political and business practices that leave Black Americans behind. In chronicling how these staggering injustices came to be, they show how and why so little progress on the wealth gap has been made and provide insights Americans should consider if they want lasting change. Story is donating 100 percent of her book profits to non-profits in education to increase the project's public impact.
Story spent more than fifteen years at the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, where she was the top masthead editor running coverage strategy. Her work investigating corruption led to the largest kleptocracy forfeiture in U.S. history, a scandal known as the 1MDB case. Her work during the 2008 financial crisis led to a multi-billion dollar settlement in the derivative market and to Goldman Sachs’s S.E.C. settlement. Projects she led have received honors including Emmy Awards, Pulitzer Prize finalist citations, and Online News Association awards. Story’s film The Kleptocrats aired on the BBC, Apple, and Amazon. She teaches about racial wealth gaps at The Yale School of Management.
This event is generously supported by the Northwestern Community College Foundation.