Journalist Ann Curry to speak at Lake Michigan College

Award winning journalist and photojournalist Ann Curry will speak at the Economic Club of Southwestern Michigan Speakers Series, hosted by The Mendel Center at Lake Michigan College in Benton Harbor.

An Evening with Ann Curry: Being a Tour de Force of Determination and Making a Difference in the World will be held November 2 at 7:30 p.m.

Curry is the current executive producer and anchor for Chasing the Cure, a television series on TNT that connects people suffering undiagnosed medical conditions with doctors all over the country and elsewhere in the world. She was also recently the executive producer and reporter of We'll Meet Again, a 12-hour docu-series that is still running on PBS.

A pre-presentation dinner will be held in the Grand Upton Hall at 5:30 p.m. Following the dinner, there will be a 30 minute discussion by Larry and Sandy Feldman about their book Building Bridges Across the Racial Divide.

Tickets for the presentation and tickets for the dinenr are sold separately. They can be purchased at www.TheMendelCenter.com, by calling 269-927-8700, option 1, or by visiting The Mendel Center Box Office in person.

The box office, located in the Grand Upton Hall Lobby, is open weekdays from 10 am to 6 pm.