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WALTER ISAACSON A Conversation with

World-renowned historian and bestselling author of The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

Welcome

Speaker Introduction

Guest Speaker

Moderator

Participating Students

Closing Remarks

Daniel G. LugoPresident, Queens University of Charlotte

Emily Sears ’21 Wells Fago Center for Community Engagement Fellow

Walter Isaacson World-renowned historian and bestselling author

Gene Woods President and CEO, Atrium Health

Irene Kuriakose ’21 Biology and Spanish

Dax McGee ’21Biology

Jacqueline Kincaid ’21 Health Science and Chinese

Morgan Faircloth ’22 Human Service Studies

Daniel G. LugoPresident, Queens University of Charlotte

A Conversation with Walter IsaacsonTuesday, April 27, 2021

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Walter Isaacson is a Professor of History at Tulane and an advisory partner at Perella Weinberg, a financial services firm based in New York City. He is the past CEO of the Aspen Institute, where he is now a Distinguished Fellow, and has been the chairman of CNN and the editor of TIME magazine. Isaacson’s most recent biography, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (2021) offers a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. He is also the author of Leonardo da Vinci (2017), The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (2014), Steve Jobs (2011), Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007), Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003), and Kissinger: A Biography (1992), and coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986). He is a host of the show “Amanpour and Company” on PBS and CNN, a contributor to CNBC, and host of the podcast “Trailblazers, from Dell Technologies.”

Isaacson is a graduate of Harvard College and of Pembroke College of Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He began his career at The Sunday Times of London and then the New Orleans Times-Picayune. He joined TIME in 1978 and served as a political correspondent, national editor, and editor of digital media before becoming the magazine’s 14th editor in 1996. He became chairman and CEO of CNN in 2001, and then president and CEO of the Aspen Institute in 2003. He is chair emeritus of Teach for America. From 2005-2007 he was the vice-chair of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, which oversaw the rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina. He was appointed by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate to serve as the chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which runs Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and other international broadcasts of the United States, a position he held from 2009 to 2012. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of the Arts, and the American Philosophical Society.

He serves on the board of United Airlines, the New Orleans City Planning Commission, the New Orleans Tricentennial Commission, Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Society of American Historians, the U.S. Defense Department Innovation Board, the Carnegie Institution for Science, and My Brother’s Keeper Alliance.

WALTER ISAACSONWorld-renowned historian and bestselling author

Gene Woods, MBA, MHA, FACHE, is president and chief executive officer of Atrium Health, a nationally leading, non-profit health system with more than 70,000 teammates serving patients at 42 hospitals and over 1,500 care locations across four states: North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia. It also includes Wake Forest Baptist Health and Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and Atrium Health Navicent in Macon, Georgia.

Woods joined Atrium Health in April 2016 and, during his tenure, Atrium Health also has been recognized as one of the Best Employers for Diversity, for new grads and for Women by Forbes; number one on the list of Best Places to Work for Women & Diverse Managers by DiversityMBA; one of the 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare by Becker’s Healthcare; and the number one military-friendly employer in the country. In addition, the organization has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report, Leapfrog Group and the American Nurses Credentialing Center as among the very best in the nation and was honored by the American Hospital Association with the Equity of Care Award and one of the first-ever Quest for Quality honors for its Rehabilitation Hospital. Most recently, Atrium Health was recognized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as a 2020 CMS Health Equity Award recipient for its dedication to health equity by reducing disparities and enabling communities to achieve the highest level of health.

GENE WOODSPresident and Chief Executive Officer, Atrium Health

Since 1988, The Learning Society has brought leading thinkers and doers to our doorstep. Renowned authors, journalists, physicians, scientists, artists, economists, politicians, government leaders, scholars, historians, entrepreneurs, business executives, environmentalists and social activists – these and more have shared their knowledge and life experience with Queens students and the greater Charlotte community.

Thanks to our members’ commitment and generosity, The Learning Society has thrived for three decades, broadening our worldview through face-to-face, unfiltered dialogue with diverse, compelling – and sometimes provocative – speakers.

The Learning Society program is intentionally designed for the visiting guest speaker to spend as much time conversing with students as presenting at the evening community lecture. The on-campus student discussion before the public program has become a signature student experience at Queens. Students gathered virtually earlier for the opportunity to ask questions of Walter Isaacson during the student-led discussion. At Queens, learning never stops at the classroom door.

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this year, the Cato School of Education Fellows at Queens University of Charlotte have successfully sustained their service commitment to young people in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) system. Made possible by the Wells Fargo Center for Community Engagement, these opportunities also allowed Queens students to gain real-world experiences while applying what they had learned through curriculum.

With virtual learning posing unique challenges to young learners at CMS and Queens students alike, the Cato Fellows developed the Pandemic Pen Pals.

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The Wells Fargo Center’s support not only enhances learning experiences for Queens students, it also exemplifies the Queens mission of “Not to be served, but to serve.”

During the spring semester, Cato School of Education Fellows also worked with nonprofits in the Charlotte community such as Heart Math Tutoring to provide math support, Classroom Central to donate school supplies, and Promising Pages to collect books for children in need.

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