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The Power of Compassion and How it Can Change Lives
BIDDEFORD - Jenna Bush Hager, daughter of former U.S.
President George W. Bush and Laura Bush, will speak at the University of New
England on Monday, October 8, at 5:30 p.m. Her talk, on “The Power of
Compassion and How it Can Change Lives,” will be at the Harold Alfond Forum on
the Biddeford Campus.
Hager is a correspondent for NBC News. The graduate of the
University of Texas, where she received a degree in English, covers a variety
of human interest and feature stories.
In 2006, she traveled to Latin America as an intern with
UNICEF. During her journey, she was inspired to write “Ana’s Story: A Journey
of Hope,” a New York Times bestseller based on the life of a 17-year-old single
mother living with HIV and determined to shield her child from the abuse and
neglect that riddled her own childhood. Hager is still very involved with
UNICEF and is currently the chair of UNICEF’s Next Generation, an initiative
dedicated to reducing the number of preventable childhood deaths around the
world.
In addition to “Ana’s Story,” Hager is the co-author with
her mother of “Read All About It!” The educational children’s book was inspired
by Hager and her mother’s mutual love of reading and teaching.
The 2012 Bush Distinguished Lecture coincides with Family
First for a First Family – The Ties That Bind: A Family Album, an exhibit
honoring the life and times of the 41st President, at the George and Barbara
Bush Center Gallery on UNE’s Biddeford Campus. Family First for a First Family
is a photo essay conceived as an inspirational tribute to a marriage and family
life that have known not only extraordinary acclaim, success, and joy, but also
disheartening trial, tribulation, and tragedy.
This is the third speaker in the George and Barbara Bush
Distinguished Lecture Series, an annual event honoring the legacy of President
and Mrs. Bush as political and community leaders. Last year’s lecture, which
was attended by George and Barbara Bush, featured Andrew H. Card Jr., who
served as White House chief of staff under President George W. Bush from 2001
until 2006.
The lecture and gallery are free and open to the public. The
Bush Center Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
