Tuesday, October 15, 2002

WILMINGTON, NC -- Robert F. Kennedy Jr., environmental leader, attorney, author and law professor, will discuss “Our Environmental Destiny” at 7 p.m., Monday, Nov. 4, in UNCW’s Kenan Auditorium.

Kennedy is chief prosecuting attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper program and senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council. He is also clinical professor at the Environmental Litigation Clinic at Pace University School of Law in New York. His reputation as an defender of the environment stems from a litany of successful legal actions: prosecuting governments and companies for polluting the Hudson River and Long Island Sound, winning settlements for the Hudson Riverkeeper, arguing cases to expand citizen access to the shoreline and suing sewage treatment plants to force compliance with the Clean Water Act.

In addition to his legal work, Kennedy is a writer whose articles have appeared in The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, The Wall Street Journal, Esquire, The Village Voice, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post. A graduate of Harvard University, Kennedy studied at the London School of Economics and received his law degree from the University of Virginia Law School.

His talk is the second of the five-part Leadership Lecture Series “Constructing Conscience: A Matter of Values” sponsored by the university’s Campus Activities and Involvement Center. This academic year the series explores themes of values, integrity and self-awareness in contemporary society.

Remaining 2002-03 speakers are:

B.D. Wong, award-winning stage and screen actor, who will present “All the World’s a Stage: Supporting the Transformation from Exclusion to Inclusion” at 7 p.m., Monday, Feb. 10.

Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, international authority and researcher on mental illness, who will lecture on “An Unquiet Mind” at 7 p.m., Monday, March 24.

David Sedaris, best-selling author of Barrel Fever, Naked and Me Talk Pretty One Day, who will talk at 8 p.m., Monday, April 11.

Box office and ticket information:

All lectures are scheduled in UNCW Kenan Auditorium. Tickets are $6 for the public and free for UNCW students, faculty and staff. To reserve tickets, call the Kenan Auditorium box office at 910/962-3500 or 800/732-3643. The box office is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday. For more information on the lecture series, contact Shannon Hooker at 910/962-7600 or e-mail hookers@uncw.edu. Information is also on the Web at www.uncwil.edu/stuaff/arts.