Watch Tara Westover for free! Click "Details" for access code info. Tuesday, March 16 at 7:30 PM

Date: 03-16-2021

Time: 07:30 PM

Location: www.thequicklive.com

Free for Fairfield University Faculty, Staff, and Students

Access Code (case sensitive): EDUCATED21

Open VISIONS Forum | Bank of America

Women and Leadership Series

Tara Westover is an American author. Born in Idaho to a father opposed to public education, she never attended school. An older brother taught her to read, and after that her education was erratic and haphazard, with most of her days spent working in her father’s junkyard or stewing herbs for her mother. She was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. After that first encounter with education she pursued learning for a decade, graduating magna cum laude from Brigham Young University in 2008 and subsequently winning a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She received an MPhil from Trinity College, Cambridge in 2009 and in 2014 was awarded a PhD in history. Currently, she is a senior research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, working on projects related to media and political polarization.

In 2018, she published her memoir, Educated, which explores her struggle to reconcile her desire for education and autonomy with her desire to be loyal to her family. Educated was an instant commercial and critical success, debuting at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and remaining on the list for more than a year. It was also a finalist for a number of national awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. The New York Times named Educated one of the 10 Best Books of 2018, and the American Booksellers Association voted it the Nonfiction Book of the Year.

To date, Educated has sold more than 4 million copies and is expected to be translated into 40 languages. Former President Barack Obama included Educated on his 2018 best books list, calling it “remarkable,” and Bill Gates also listed it as one of his favorite books of that year, saying, “It’s even better than you’ve heard.” For her staggering impact, TIME magazine named Westover one of the 100 most influential people of 2018.

Bank of America is pleased to sponsor this inspirational series, opening minds and celebrating empowering women leaders around the world. #PowerTo

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