First Unitarian Church of St. Louis is pleased to announce that Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Tony Messenger is the 2022 Clark Lecturer.
The Clark Lecture is an annual event which brings leaders of opinion and thought to the St. Louis community.
Tony Messenger will speak on the topic of modern-day debtors' prisons, and how the American justice system punishes its poorest citizens financially.
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Tony Messenger is the metro columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and author of Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the name of Poverty, his first book.
In 2019, Messenger won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary for his series of columns on debtors' prisons in Missouri. In 2016, Messenger was awarded a Missouri Honor Medal, the highest award bestowed by the University of Missouri's School of Journalism. That same year he won a National Headliner for editorial writing. In 2015, Messenger was a Pulitzer finalist for his series of editorials on Ferguson, and won the Sigma Delta Chi award for best editorials of the year, given by the Society of Professional Journalists.
Lecture is free and open to the public. Attendees are strongly encouraged to get advance tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/clark-lecture-profit-and-punishment-tickets-298055801927
Tony will be available for a Q&A and book signing after his lecture.
The book is available for purchase before and during the event courtesy of Left Bank Books
https://www.left-bank.com/book/9781250274649