NYYRC August Forum

Thursday August 10
Our Featured Speaker will be Claudia Rosett, Journalist-in-Residence, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

Claudia Rosett writes on international affairs, with a focus on democratic movements and despotic regimes. She has been widely credited with breaking the Oil-for-Food scandal and other aspects of waste, abuse and corruption at the United Nations.

Currently based in New York, Ms. Rosett has reported from Asia, the former Soviet Union, Latin America and the Middle East. From 1984-2002 she was a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal, serving as a member of the Journal's editorial board in New York (1997-2002); as a reporter and then bureau chief of the Journal's Moscow Bureau (1993-1996); as editorial-page editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal, based in Hong Kong (1986-1993); and as books editor in New York (1984-1986). In 1990, for her on-site coverage of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising, she won an Overseas Press Club Citation for Excellence. For her coverage of the United Nations and its Iraq Oil-for-Food program, Ms. Rosett in 2005 won both the Mightier Pen Award and the Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism. Ms. Rosett holds a B.A. from Yale University , an M.A. in English Literature from Columbia University, and an M.B.A. with a specialization in Finance from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

For more information on Ms. Rosett, please check here.
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The New York Young Republican Club will also be featuring two candidates for local office in Brooklyn:

Yvette Velazquez Bennett who is running for the 44 Assembly District.
The district encompasses Park Slope, Flatbush, Kensington, Midwood, and Windsor Terrace.

Viviana V. Hernandez who is running for the 18 Senate District.
The district encompasses Bed-ford-Stuyvesant, Clinton Hill, Boerum Hill, Crown Heights, Fort Greene, Prospect Heights, Red Hook and parts of Sunset Park, Park Slope and Carroll Gardens.

Where it's at!
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Place: Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen's Club
283 Lexington Ave (bet 36th & 37th St), 2nd Floor
Admission: Members - FREE, Non Members - $5, F/T Students - $2.

After-politics Socializing
Come join us afterwards for drinks to celebrate club vice president, Daniel Peterson's 35th birthday.
Our socializing will be at:
Margarita Murphy's
591 Third Avenue
Between 38th and 39th streets

by Daniel Peterson, Thursday, Jul. 27 | Permalink