PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
October 10, 2018
Contact: Kim Burdick, Executive Director People to People Delaware
302-543-5723; kimptpde@aol.com
Wilmington— A United Nations Day Celebration, hosted by Delaware Press Association, People to People Delaware, and the World Trade Center Delaware, features CBS News Foreign Affairs Analyst Pamela Falk who will offer a UN perspective on today’s foreign policy challenges. Ed Oliver Golf Club, Wednesday, October 24. The public is cordially invited to attend.
“Today’s Foreign Policy Challenges”
Speaker: Pamela Falk, CBS News Foreign Affairs Analyst
based at United Nations Headquarters in New York
Ed Oliver Golf Club
Dover Room
800 Dupont Road
Wilmington, Delaware
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
6:00 p.m. – Social Gathering + Cash Bar / Dinner
7:30 p.m. – Program + Audience Q & A
Cost: $30 per person
Free if attending the 7:30 p.m. talk only
The public is cordially invited to attend
Whether the issue is economics or immigration, the environment or health, politics or religion, there are myriad complex international and cultural considerations. In a return engagement, Falk, U.N. Resident Correspondent and CBS News Foreign Affairs Analyst, will offer a UN perspective on many of these issues in a talk, “Today’s Foreign Policy Challenges,” on United Nations Day, Wednesday, October 24. Audience Q & A to follow. The event, co-hosted by Delaware Press Association, People to People Delaware, and the World Trade Center Delaware will be held at 6 p.m. at the Ed Oliver Golf Club, 800 Dupont Road, Wilmington.
Based at UN headquarters in New York, Falk traveled with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the DMZ, South Korea, the Middle East, and Saudi Arabia, and covered the climate change agreement and terrorist attacks from France and Germany. She has served on the Board of the Dag Hammarskjöld Fund for Journalists and as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
The former Staff Director of a U.S. Congressional subcommittee of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, she produced and directed the “U.N. in Focus” series, and, for her coverage of the U.N., received the Gold Prize of the Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Award. She also does on-air reports for CBS News TV & Radio and writes for CBS.com on the blogs Political Hotsheet and WorldWatch.
Falk is a professor of American Foreign Policy and International Relations & Law at Hunter College. She is also the author and editor of six books on international relations.
The audience will be able to comment and to ask questions during the Q & A following the presentation.
Event at Ed Oliver Golf Club:
6:00 p.m. Social gathering with cash bar and dinner
7:30 p.m. Program “Today’s Foreign Policy Challenges” + Audience Q & A
Cost: $30.
Free if attending program only.
CLICK TO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT
Directions:
From Route 52 (Kennett Pike), turn onto DuPont Road immediately north of the A. I. Du Pont Middle School. Ed Oliver is on the left in ½ mile.
From Route 141, turn onto Route 48 E. (Lancaster Avenue), heading toward Wilmington. In 1 mile, at the light by the Charter School of Wilmington, turn left onto Dupont Road. Ed Oliver is on the right in ½ mile.
Park in large well-lighted lot adjacent to the club house.
For more information: kimptpde@aol.com.
Delaware Press Association, a network of more than 150 journalists, broadcasters, and other communications professionals, is dedicated to promoting and upholding the highest standards of journalism and communications and to protecting First Amendment freedoms.
People to People Delaware enhances international understanding, friendship, and mutual respect through educational, cross-cultural, and humanitarian activities involving the exchange of ideas and experiences directly among peoples of different countries and diverse cultures.
The World Trade Center Delaware, agile and efficient in meeting the needs of the Delaware business community, helps companies – especially small, medium, or emerging – in a variety of sectors, to grow their international business through trade leads, training programs, job leads, and, networking and matchmaking opportunities.
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