Published March 26. 2015 12:00AM
Journalist and media critic Jennifer. L. Pozner will speak at Kutztown University 7 p.m. April 1 in Schaeffer Auditorium.
Pozner will give students the literacy tools needed to unpack representations of violence in news, pop culture and advertising.
She will explain how to react when media representations of violence make men and women less safe.
Pozner is the founder of Women in Media and News, a website dedicated to working to increase women's presence in the public debate; analyzing representations of women in media and training women's and social justice groups to hold media outlets accountable to the public interest; and promoting equity for women as subjects, sources and producers.
This event is sponsored by the Association of Campus Events, the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance and the Women's Center at KU.