Thursday, January 29, 3:30pm – 5:00pm
Location: 56-154
Please register only if you can commit to attending. Space is limited. Snacks will be served.
This workshop counts toward the requirements for GradEL’s Graduate Certificate in Technical Leadership.
Feeling like you need to break out of the ivory tower? Want to learn skills for reaching out to your home town, state, or other community to share about problems that matter to you?
In this interactive workshop for MIT students and postdocs, taught by seasoned writer Martha Eddison (Special Assistant & Senior Communications Advisor to President Kornbluth), attendees will…
Sponsored by the MIT Communication Lab.
Martha Eddison has served since 2007 as the principal writer and a strategic communications advisor to three successive presidents of MIT – Susan Hockfield, Rafael Reif and now Sally Kornbluth. She began her speechwriting career in politics, heading the speech office of the late New York Governor Mario M. Cuomo. Later, while raising three young children, she spent nine years as a freelance writer, bringing wit, rigor, clarity and delight to fundraising and admissions materials for clients that included Brown, Harvard Medical School, MIT, Tufts, Williams and Yale. On behalf of the leaders she served, she has developed op-eds that were published by the Boston Globe, the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.
Thursday, January 29, 3:30pm – 5:00pm
Location: 56-154
Please register only if you can commit to attending. Space is limited. Snacks will be served.
This workshop counts toward the requirements for GradEL’s Graduate Certificate in Technical Leadership.
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