1. Simran Sethi to speak at UH Downtown Student Leadership Conference October 30

Simran Sethi, acclaimed environmentalist, will be speaking at the Unviersity of Houston–Downtown’s Student Leadership Conference on Friday, October 30, 2009, at 11:30 am in the Wilhelmina Cullen Robertson Auditorium. Simran Sethi is an award-winning freelance journalist, focusing on social and environmental sustainability. She is an associate professor at the University of Kansas School of Journalism and Mass Communications, where she teaches courses on environmental communications. Sethi is currently writing a book on eco-elitism to be published by Harper Collins in 2010 and is the contributing author of Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy, winner of the bronze 2008 Axiom Award for Best Business Ethics book. The book is the companion guide to the first PBS series on sustainable business, “Ethical Markets,” for which Sethi served as host and writer. She is New York University’s inaugural Goddard Fellow and an Associate Fellow at the Asia Society. She will speak on the topic of social justice, sustainability and leadership. More at http://www.uhd.edu/.