Event Host: Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Short Description: The 2016 Elizabeth D. Gee Distinguished Lecture in Ethics features Amy Goodman, American broadcast journalist and host of Democracy Now!
Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news progam airing on more than 1,300 public television and ratio stations worldwide.
Goodman has co-authored five New York Times bestsellers. Her latest two, The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope, and Breaking the Sound Barrier, both written with Denis Moynihan, give voice to the many ordinary people standing up to corporate and government power. She co-authored her first three bestsellers with her brother, journalist David Goodman: Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times (2008), Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back (2006) and The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them (2004). She co-writes a weekly column with Denis Moynihan (also produced as an audio podcast) syndicated by King Features, for which she was recognized in 2007 with the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Reporting.
She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Thomas Merton Award in 2004, a Right Livelihood Award in 2008 and an Izzy Award in 2009 for “special achievement in independent media.” In 2012, Goodman received the Gandhi Peace Award for a “significant contribution to the promotion of an enduring international peace.”
The Elizabeth D. Gee Distinguished Lecture in Ethics was established in honor of the late Dr. Elizabeth Dutson Gee, a senior research associate in Ohio State's Center for Women’s Studies, in the early 1990s.The Distinguished Lecture in Ethics celebrates Gee’s enduring legacy as a scholar and an educator and fosters dialogue within the academic and local communities.
