USD To Host "Freedom Writer" Erin Gruwell

SAN DIEGO, CA: Erin Gruwell, author of Freedom Writers Diarywill discuss her students' firsthand experience of racism, poverty and the struggle for education, as they became narrators of their own stories and lives. The event is sponsored by the School of Leadership & Education Sciences, the United Front Multicultural Center, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Mulvaney Center. 

Gruwell founded the Freedom Writers Foundation in 1997, following the Los Angeles Riots, to support her students who at the time felt overlooked within the educational system, and "to inspire young, under privileged students to pick up pens instead of guns."

WHO:      Erin Gruwell, founder, Freedom Writers Foundtaion

WHAT:    Lecture on the Freedom Writers and activism in today's soceity

WHEN:    Thursday, April 20, 2017, 7pm

WHERE:   Mother Rosalie Hill Warren Hall

    5998 Alcala Park

    San Diego, CA 92110

The event is free and open to the public. 

About the University of San Diego

Strengthened by the Catholic intellectual tradition, we confront humanity’s challenges by fostering peace, working for justice and leading with love. With more than 8,000 students from 75 countries and 44 states, USD is the youngest independent institution on the U.S. News & World Report list of top 100 universities in the United States. USD’s eight academic divisions include the College of Arts and Sciences, the Knauss School of Business, the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering, the School of Law, the School of Leadership and Education Sciences, the Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science, the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, and the Division of Professional and Continuing Education. In 2021, USD was named a “Laudato Si’ University” by the Vatican with a seven-year commitment to address humanity’s urgent challenges by working together to take care of our common home.