Publisher Abby Rapoport will deliver the 2025 McSwain-Walker lecture
The Reves Center for International Studies has announced that Abby Rapoport will deliver the 2025 McSwain-Walker Lecture. Her talk, “Place-Based Journalism: Perspectives from Independent Media,” will be held Monday, March 17, 2025, at 5pm in the Reves Room. 讲座免费向公众开放。
Abby Rapoport's work focuses on the relationship between communities, media and storytelling. She is the cofounder and publisher of Stranger’s Guide, an award-winning publication that explores how politics, power and culture shape daily life across the globe. Its work has been featured in America's Best Travel Writing and America's Best Magazine Writing. She sits on the board of numerous non-profits and philanthropies including the Society for the Preservation of Texas Music, Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas and TYPE Media. Abby began her career as a political reporter at the Texas Tribune and subsequently worked as a staff writer on politics and policy for the Texas Observer and The American Prospect before serving as Acting Publisher for the Texas Observer. Her writing has also appeared in Glamour, The National Journal and The New Republic among other places.
“Stranger's Guide is a remarkable award-winning publication. The story tellers and photographers speak not from any central place, but from the places where they live and work, from Mexico City to Lagos and cities in between,” said Teresa Longo, Associate Provost for International Affairs and Executive Director of the Reves Center. “Since 2022 Abby has enriched the Reves Center's International Micro-Story Workshop and helped us see the value in the stories people tell across the world, making us far less strange to each other.”
The annual McSwain-Walker lecture brings renowned scholars, artists, analysts and other notable public figures to William & 玛丽 to speak on topics related to how other countries and cultures interact with the United States, and how the United States interacts with them. Previous lecturers include Viet Thanh Nguyen, Haben Girma, Swedish Ambassador to the U.S. Karin Olofsdotter and anti-human trafficking activist Mirawan "Boom" Mosby.
