Benjamin Herold

Moderated by Damon Young | Building: Chapel | Room: Auditorium | 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM

After the presentation, the author will be signing books in the lobby of the Chapel Auditorium.

Their books will be available at the bookstore in the lobby of the Chapel Auditorium.

Biography

Benjamin Herrold explores America's beautiful and busted public schools. His award-winning reporting has appeared in Education Week, PBS NewsHour, NPR, Huffington Post, WHYY, The Hechinger Report, and the Public School Notebook. Herold has a master's degree in urban education from Temple University in Philadelphia, where he lives with his family.

Damon Young's debut memoir, What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir In Essays (Ecco/HarperCollins), is a tragicomic exploration of the angst, anxieties, and absurdities of existing while Black in America, and won the Thurber Prize for American Humor and Barnes & Noble's Discover Award. Damon is also a founder of the culture blog VerySmartBrothas, and was a contributing columnist for The Washington Post Magazine, a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, a columnist for GQ, and was the creator and host of the Crooked Media podcast "Stuck With Damon Young."
Currently, he is the inaugural writer-in-residence at the University of Pittsburgh's David C. Frederick Honors College.