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The Witte Lectures with Juliette Kayyem at NBPL
Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/28/2025 - 03/29/2025
All Day
Location
Newport Beach Public Library
1000 Avocado Avenue
Newport Beach, CA 92660
Friday, March 28, 7:00 pm
Saturday, March 29, 2:00 pm
National Security, Climate Migration & Pandemics: Managing Risks in a Borderless World
In academia, private sector, government and media, Professor Juliette Kayyem is an international leader in crisis management and homeland security. Professor Kayyem serves as the faculty chair of the Homeland Security and Security and Global Health Projects at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Previously, she served as President Obama’s Assistant Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security and as Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s Homeland Security Advisor.
Kayyem is a CNN Senior National Security Analyst, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and contributing writer for The Atlantic and Boston’s local NPR station, and the author or editor of six books, including her most recent “The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters.”
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