Women Leaders Speaker Series featurning Valerie Fortney

The Women’s Resource Centre is excited to welcome author and Calgary Herald columnist Valerie Fortney for the Women Leaders Speaker Series (WLSS). Valerie writes on a variety of topical issues, bringing her unique, informative and entertaining take on the stories of the day. She has been nominated for numerous news awards and was the recipient of the Daniel Pearl award for print journalism and National Newspaper Award. Join us as we hear about Valerie’s story on “Leadership in Journalism”. For more info on WLSS visit http://www.ucalgary.ca/women/WomenLeaders

Location:

Women’s Resource Centre (MacEwan Student Centre 482)

Speaker:

Valerie Fortney joined the Herald in 1998 as lifestyle editor. Prior to writing her column, Fortney, an alumnus of the University of Calgary, was the associate editor of the Herald’s Arts & Style section.Valerie was part of the Herald team that won a National Newspaper Award in 2014 for the coverage of the 2013 Alberta flood.Starting her writing and editing career in the early 1990s, Valerie was the founding editor of Calgary’s Avenue magazine, as well as a writer for such publications as Chatelaine, Readers Digest and the Los Angeles Times.In addition to her newspaper and magazine work, Valerie has been a frequent commentator in radio and on television since the 1990s. She is also the author of Sunray: the Death and Life of Captain Nichola Goddard, the first female combat-cerfitied soldier to die on the battlefield. The book, released in 2010, was long listed for the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction.A native of Winnipeg, Valerie is proud to call Calgary home for the past 37 years.

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/women-leaders-speaker-series-featurning-valerie-fortney