Convocation: Joseph Shapiro '75

"Make What's Important Interesting, Instead of What's Interesting Important: An NPR Correspondent's Thoughts about Soldiers Back from Iraq, Hurricane Katrina and Other Recent Stories." National Public Radio correspondent Joseph Shapiro '75 covers health, aging, disability, and children and family issues. Before joining NPR in 2001, Shapiro spent 19 years at U.S. News & World Report, where he wrote about a variety of social policy issues and also served as the magazine's Rome bureau chief, White House correspondent, and congressional reporter. At NPR he has reported on stories related to disabilities among soldiers serving in and returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. He also filed reports from the New Orleans airport as people with disabilities were evacuated in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, some of them forced to leave wheelchairs and other essential devices behind. An award winning journalist, he is also the author of "No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement."



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