The 2024 Mona Sherman Memorial Lecture: Ari Melber

2024 Mona Sherman Memorial Lecture
featuring

Ari Melber
Saturday, May 18, 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 

Priority registration is closed for OLLI at BCC members.

OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College, is honored to present Ari Melber as our 2024 Mona Sherman Memorial lecturer.

ARI MELBER is an Emmy Award–winning journalist, evening news anchor, writer, and attorney. He anchors The Beat with Ari Melber on MSNBC, serves as the network’s chief legal correspondent, and is a legal analyst for NBC News. Melber received a 2016 Emmy Award for his reporting on the Supreme Court and was nominated for a 2020 Emmy for an “Outstanding Live Interview,” featuring four witnesses in the Mueller probe. He has been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, Politico, and other publications. Melber received a JD from Cornell Law School, where he was an editor of the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy. He previously practiced First Amendment law and is a member of the New York Bar.

This lecture will be recorded and available on the OLLI at BCC YouTube channel in early June.

Ticket information:

Priority registration is closed for OLLI at BCC members.  Registration opens to Mahaiwe members Wednesday, April 24 at noon, and to the public, if any seats remain, on Wednesday, May 1 at noon. General admission seating.

Here is a link to the Mahaiwe website to reserve tickets for the lecture.   _______________________________

About Mona Sherman

The annual Mona Sherman Memorial Lecture was established to honor the memory of the late Mona Sherman, a dynamic businesswoman and volunteer leader who played a transformative role in the growth and expansion of OLLI at BCC. The lecture series, established through the generosity of her family and friends, honors both her love of the Berkshires community and of lifelong learning.

For over a decade, the Mona Sherman Memorial Lecture series has featured extraordinary nationally known writers and commentators: past speakers have included Congressman Jamie Raskin, Cokie Roberts, Jim Acosta, Mika Brzezinski, Joe Klein, Katy Tur and others. The lectures have always been free and open to the public.

OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College, provides diverse educational, social, and volunteer opportunities a year designed especially by and for people fifty years old and better. OLLI’s 1,500+ members organize courses, lectures, trips and special events online, throughout the Berkshires and beyond.  For more information visit www.berkshireolli.org.

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We are grateful to the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center for being our co-presenter, to Berkshire Gas for being our lead sponsor, and to the many friends and family of Mona Sherman for their continuing support.