Potter College News

The Potter College of Arts & Letters (PCAL) at WKU will be welcoming multi-award winning journalist, Caitlin Dickerson, to campus as a part of their Cultural Enhancement Series (CES) on Thursday, October 16, at 7:00 PM in the Jody Richards Hall Auditorium.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Peabody Award, and Edward R. Murrow Award, Dickerson engages audiences on the importance and power that journalism holds regarding systemic inequality. She has spent many years covering displacements across Ukraine, Romania, and Guatemala for some of the nation’s more prominent outlets.

She currently serves as a staff writer at The Atlantic, where her deeply reported feature stories continue to spark national conversations. Previously having experience as an investigation reporter for The New York Times, her front page stories highlighted government policies that put vulnerable communities at risk. At NPR, Dickerson won Peabody and Edward R. Murrow awards for the coverage of immigration and civil liberties stories. In her role at The Atlantic, she continues to pursue immigration stories and, as a result, won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for her cover story, “We Need to Take Away Children”.

Dickerson’s storytelling pushes audiences beyond statistics and headlines, placing the focus on the lived experiences of survival. By highlighting both systemic failures and strengths, she reminds many of the human stakes of global crises and the responsibility they share in creative effective responses.

Caitlin Dickerson offers audiences the opportunity to hear human centered stories from the frontlines of migration. She shares stories of resilience, highlights the urgent need for compassionate, informed responses to the migration crisis, and reflects on journalism's role in advocating truth and accountability.

Admission is free, no tickets are necessary, and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. If you have questions about the event, please contact Dr. Tony Harkins at anthony.harkins@wku.edu.

To learn more about the PCAL Cultural Enhancement Series, please visit https://www.wku.edu/culturalenhancement/.