An Evening with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Admission
- $20.00
Location
91 W. Main Street
Westminster, MD 21157
United States of America
Description
Tickets will be available at the door!
CCPL in partnership with HarperCollins Publishers & McDaniel College invite you to
An Evening with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Author of Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield
$20 includes copy of Ashley’s War
Thank you to all who serve! All active and retired military with ID will receive free admission the day of the event.
A Celebrating America Program.
In 2010, the U.S. Army Special Operations Command created Cultural Support Teams, a pilot program to put women on the battlefield alongside Army Rangers, Green Berets, Navy SEALs, and other special operations teams on sensitive missions in Afghanistan. The idea was that women could access places and people that had remained out of reach and could build relationships—woman to woman—in ways that male soldiers in a conservative, traditional country could not. Lemmon uses exhaustive firsthand reporting and a finely tuned understanding of the complexities of war to tell the story of CST–2, a unit of women handpicked from across the Army, and of the remarkable hero at its heart: First Lieutenant Ashley White.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, a New York Times bestseller about a young entrepreneur who supported her community under the Taliban.
From 1997 to 2004, Lemmon covered presidential politics and public policy issues for ABC News. She received an MBA from Harvard University. In 2010, she was featured on the cover of the Harvard Business School alumni magazine for her work on entrepreneurs in conflict and post conflict zones. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Missouri with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and served as a Fulbright scholar in Spain and a Robert Bosch Foundation fellow in Germany.
Lemmon has reported on Afghanistan since 2005. She has written about the country’s politics and economy, the evolving roles of Afghan women, and young entrepreneurs. Her work has appeared in the The New York Times, The Financial Times, Fast Company, The Christian Science Monitor, and Newsweek's The Daily Beast. In 2011, she gave the opening talk at TEDxWomen, which focused on why investing in women can make the difference for the global economy. Lemmon regularly appears on PBS, MSNBC, CNN, and National Public Radio, to discuss foreign policy issues.
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