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 The Reflections of Hope Award is given at an award dinner on April 19th each year.
A reception begins the evening and gives attendees an opportunity to meet one-on-one with the honoree prior to the dinner and program.
The dinner includes an internationally known speaker and the presentation of the Reflections of Hope Award.
The dinner will be held for the third year at the Skirvin Hilton Hotel in Oklahoma City. Patron table (table for eight) sponsorships and individual tickets are available now.
This year, Emmy Award-winning correspondent, Today Show News Anchor and Dateline Anchor for NBC News Ann Curry spoke on the topic of Global Humanitarian Reporting and the Responsibilities of Society at the 2009 dinner.
In the first two weeks following the attacks of September 11, Curry reported live daily from ground zero. She has distinguished herself in global humanitarian reporting, traveling to Sudan multiple times to report on the violence and ethnic cleansing taking place in Darfur and Chad. She also reported on the Israel-Lebanon war, and was one of the only American reporters to file stories on both sides of the conflict from Beirut and Northern Israel. Curry filed reports on the HIV/AIDS epidemic and women's rights and education in Africa, was the first network news anchor to report from inside the tsunami zone in Southeast Asia, and was also the first network news anchor to report on the humanitarian refugee crisis caused by the genocide in Kosovo.
In spring 2008, Curry broadcast live from the Democratic Republic of the Congo where she reported on the horrific struggles of the women and children from the city of Goma. Curry also talked to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari in his first-ever interview with an American news organization.
Ann Curry's appearance is made possible through the generous support of the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation.
If you have any questions, please contact Toni Clopton at
tc[at]oklahomacitynationalmemorial[dot]org.
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