This event was rescheduled from February 25.

Join authors Pagan Kennedy and Karen Brown in conversation about Pagan's new book, The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story. 

About the book: Marty Goddard dreamed up a new crime-solving tool—a kit that could help rape survivors fight for justice. This thrilling investigation tells the story of the troubled, heroic woman who kicked off a feminist revolution in forensics, and then vanished into obscurity.

About the speakers:

• Pagan Kennedy is the author of eleven books. Her journalism has appeared in dozens of publications including The New Yorker and Atlantic Monthly; she has worked as a columnist for The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe Magazine, and The Village Voice.  Her awards include a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT, an NEA Fellowship, a Smithsonian Fellowship, and two Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowships.
• Karen Brown is a public radio science reporter and print journalist based in western Massachusetts, with a focus on mental health. In addition to 25 years at New England Public Radio, Karen has contributed to NPR, The New York Times, and other national outlets.  Recent projects have explored the biology of resilience, bipolar disorder in children, gambling health policy and addiction treatment – and she produced the NPR Network podcast, “The Secrets We Keep.” Her awards include the National Edward R. Murrow Award, The Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize, and the Erikson Prize for Mental Health Media. She’s been a MIT-Knight Science Journalism Fellow, a Logan Science Fellow at MBL, and a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism fellow. As a journalism educator, she was the founding director of the Dart Center’s Global Fellowship on Early Childhood Development and senior fellow for the USC Center for Health Journalism.

Books will be available to purchase onsite from Amherst Books. 

This event will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel. Click here to view.