Soul of a Citizen Author Paul Loeb
Venue: Burruss Auditorium, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Thursday, September 19, 2013
Time: 7:30 - 8:30 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

Description:
The Virginia Tech Union presents "Soul of a Citizen" Author Paul Loeb in Burruss Auditorium on Thursday, September 19th.

Paul Loeb is the author of Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in Challenging Times (St Martin's Press 1999 and 2010, now with 145,000 copies in print), The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear (Basic Books, 2004, and named the #3 political book of that year by the History Channel and the American Book Association), Generation at the Crossroads: Apathy and Action on the American Campus (Rutgers University Press, 1994), Nuclear Culture, and Hope in Hard Times. Both The Impossible and Soul won the Nautilus Award for best social change books of their respective publication years.

Paul has written on social involvement for The New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, AARP Bulletin, Boston Globe, Psychology Today, Utne Reader, Redbook, Parents magazine, Christian Science Monitor, Mother Jones, Salon, the Village Voice, National Catholic Reporter, Chronicle of Higher Education, and the International Herald Tribune. He's been interviewed on CNN, NPR, PBS, C-SPAN, NBC TV, the BBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, American Urban Radio, Voice of America, and national German and Australian radio.

He's lectured on 400 college campuses and at numerous national and international conferences. In 2008 Loeb founded the Campus Election Engagement Project, helping 500 colleges and universities engage their students in the election, and worked with 750 campuses in or 2012. Loeb also participated in the Department of Education's 2011 roundtable on higher education and civic engagement and blogs regularly at HuffingtonPost.

For more information on Paul Loeb, visit: http://www.paulloeb.org/soul.html

The doors open at 7 pm and the event begins at 7:30 pm. Admission is free.

For more information, visit: http://www.vtu.org.vt.edu/ or http://www.facebook.com/thevtu

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