Media Appearances | Speaking Engagements

Media Appearances

Recent media appearances with Donatella Lorch:

Speaking Engagements

Donatella Lorch has spoken regularly on a wide range of topics at universities and think tanks including the National Defense University, conducted journalism training sessions at the State Department and the World Bank and has lectured and participated in seminars for the U.S. Marine Corps, the Army and the Air Force. She has spoken on conflict resolution in high schools as well as acted as the Master of Ceremonies at the UNHCR World Refugee Day introducing the Secretary of State and is featured in a Newseum exhibit on War Reporting.

Recent speaking engagements include:
  • Columbia University
    Columbia Undergraduate Scholars Program
    New York City
    So Much World All at Once: the business of refugee resettlement and the Lost Boys of Southern Sudan. How myth and reality mixed and made them America's darlings.
    Monday, February 4, 2008
  • The Brookings Institute
    Washington, D.C.
    Reporting crises: how the media, relief agencies and the government determine humanitarian response.
    Panel
    Thursday, May 24, 2007
  • U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Washington, D.C.
    The Challenges of Media Coverage during the Rwanda Genocide:
    How the cultural and financial transformation of the news business is affecting reporting on wars, ethnic cleansing and genocide.
    Sunday, March 25, 2007
  • American University, School of Communication
    Real Journalism Screenings & Symposia
    Washington, D.C.
    Moderator for Double Feature "God Grew Tired of Us" and "Our Choice Too: On the Edge in Darfur."
    Friday, March 23, 2007
  • National Press Club — Washington, D.C
    Co-sponsored by The Newseum
    Reporting Terrorism, the Iraq Conflict and the Middle East
    Panel
    Thursday, March 22, 2007
  • Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
    Washington, D.C.
    Using the Media to Maximize Visibility and Communication Effectiveness
    September 28, 2006
  • Center for Strategic and International Studies
    The Abshire-Inamori Leadership Academy
    Washington, D.C.
    Reporting Conflict
    September 27, 2006
  • U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Washington, D.C.
    Reporting on conflict and genocide — an eyewitness account.
    Friday, March 10, 2006
    National Leadership Conference
    Rwanda and Darfur — The challenges of reporting on a crisis
    Remembering Rwanda. Did we learn anything?
    Tuesday, June 28, 2005
  • U.S. Department of State
    Washington D.C.
    Investigative Journalism: A regional project for Africa.
    Thursday, February 9, 2006
    Conflict Resolution: A regional project for Africa
    July, 2005
  • Mississippi Consortium for International Development (MCID),
    International Visitors Leadership Program
    The Role of NGOs and the Media in Resolving Conflicts
    June 15, 2005
  • Center for Strategic and International Studies
    The Abshire — Inamori Leadership Academy
    Washington, D.C.
    Reporting conflict — an eyewitness account
    November 15, 2005
  • International Women’s Forum — opening session
    J.W. Marriott Hotel — Washington D.C.
    Risk, Courage and Justice
    Thursday, October 20, 2005
  • Society for Professional Journalists
    Yearly conference, Las Vegas, NV
    International Journalism Fellowships and Programs
    Tuesday, October 18, 2005
  • NEWSEUM
    Freedom Forum
    Washington D.C.
    Moderator
    American Youth Encounter with Genocide Survivors
    Televised on C-SPAN
    March 26, 2004
Selected Military:
  • United States Special Operation Command
    MacDill Airforce Base
    The media and the military
    May, 2004
  • Wilson Center for Leadership in the Public Interest
    Hampden-Sydney College, Va.
    U.S. Special Operations closed symposium.
    Presented by Fort Bragg briefing Team
    An After-action report from Afghanistan
    Thursday, September 12, 2002: