Richard D. Heffner Open Mind Lecture with Jane Mayer

Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022
7:00pm EST
Virtual - Register Here


The School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program will welcome Jane Mayer to deliver the 7th annual Richard D. Heffner Open Mind Lecture titled, “The Big Money behind The Big Lie.”

Jane Mayer has illuminated the story-behind-the-story of U.S. politics for over 20 years and currently serves as the Chief Correspondent for The New Yorker. As one of America’s leading female investigative journalist, Mayer was recently named one of the 35 most powerful media figures by the Hollywood Reporter.

Jane Mayer began her career as a writer for The New Yorker in 1995 and has maintained her reputation as one of the nation’s most trusted political investigative writers. Jane Mayer initially served as the Wall Street Journal’s first female White House correspondent and was twice-nominated by the Journal for a Pulitzer Prize in feature writing. The New York Times named Mayer’s book, The Dark Side, “brilliantly researched and deeply unsettling...extraordinary and invaluable." Mayer’s most recent book, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, has sold over 400,000 copies and was named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times and brought the Koch Brothers into the spotlight as political influencers.