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Award-winning investigative journalist Shane Bauer will be speaking at Allegheny on Friday, April 7, and Saturday, April 8. On Friday at 7:30 p.m., Bauer will address the subject of border security, drawing on his recent experience, undercover, in a vigilante border militia in Arizona. This talk will be held in the Tillotson Room of the Tippie Alumni Center, with light refreshments provided. On Saturday at 7 p.m. in the Tillotson Room, Bauer will deliver the keynote speech at Allegheny’s Student Alliance for Prison Reform Conference. (The speech follows a dinner at 6:30, to which all are invited.)
Last month, Bauer received Harvard’s 2017 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for his undercover story in Mother Jones about a private prison in Louisiana. For more information about Bauer’s work, please click here.
Both presentations are free and open to the public. Bauer’s visit is sponsored by Allegheny College’s Journalism in the Public Interest Program, the Center for Political Participation, and the Student Alliance for Prison Reform.
Bauer’s young career is already distinguished and consequential. Four weeks after his eye-opening story about private prisons in Mother Jones, the Justice Department announced that it would no longer use such prisons. Bauer has written for Mother Jones, The Nation, Salon, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Christian Science Monitor, and has worked in the U.S. and abroad, reporting from Iraq, Sudan, Chad, Syria, Yemen, and Israel/Palestine. His 2014 co-authored book “Sliver of Light” describes the two-year imprisonment in Iran he experienced, with two other Americans, after they mistakenly crossed into that country while hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan.