Diana Henriques, Jennifer McCreight to Speak at CFI-Indiana

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Monday, March 19th 2012 at 7:00 pm
Ends
Monday, March 19th 2012 at 9:30 pm

Diana Henriques, Jennifer McCreight to Speak at CFI-Indiana



Sunday, March 18
6:00 pm
Diana Henriques, Senior Financial Writer, New York Times
and author of The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust. Topic: Lessons from the Madoff Scandal.

Monday, March 19
7:00 pm

Jennifer McCrieght, former president of Purdue Non-Theists, blogger at Blag Hag, and originator of Boobquake. Topic: The Indiana Theocracy.

Center for Inquiry-Indiana
350 Canal Walk, Suite A
Indianapolis
Admission for each program is $10.00, $5.00 for Friends of the Center, Ms Henriques' book, $15.00. Seating is limited and number of books available will be based on preorders. Reserve your seat and order a book here.

Diana B. Henriques, an award-winning financial journalist, is the author of The Wizard of Lies, a New York Times bestseller about the Bernie Madoff scandal, and three other books on business history. As a writer for The New York Times, she has largely specialized in investigative reporting on white-collar crime, market regulation and corporate governance.
Ms. Henriques was a member of a reporting team that was named a Pulitzer finalist in 2003 for its coverage of the aftermath of the Enron scandals. She was also a member of a team that won a 1999 Gerald Loeb Award for covering the near-collapse of Long Term Capital Management, a hedge fund whose troubles rocked the financial markets in September 1998. Read more.

Jennifer McCreight, an American skeptic and atheist blogger, is a graduate student at the University of Washington. She is the architect of Boobquake, an experiment designed to test a claim made by Kazem Seddiqi, an Islamic cleric.

Ms McCreight graduated from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana with a double major in genetics and evolution. Since 2010, she has been pursuing a Ph.D. in genome sciences at the University of Washington. She has had academic work published in the Journal of Zoology and Molecular Approaches in Natural Resource Conservation and Management.
In 2009 McCreight received an American Society of Mammalogists Undergraduate Award. Read More.

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