Miss Kathi: Saving Lives in North Korea Book Talk

Miss Kathi: Saving Lives in North Korea chronicles the story of a woman who has lived out her commitment to the poor and most vulnerable - undaunted by the tensions and threat of conflict perpetually looming over the Korean Peninsula. Join authors Mike Chinoy & Kathi Zellweger as they discuss their new book and Kathi's experience as an aid worker with the longest continuous history of humanitarian engagement with North Korea. Moderated by Evan Medeiros (Georgetown University). A light lunch will be provided. Books will be available for purchase. ~ ~Kathi Zellweger is a senior aid manager with over thirty years of field experience in Hong Kong, China, and North Korea. She was based in Pyongyang for five years (2006–2011) as the North Korea country director for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), an office of the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Before joining SDC, from 1978 to 2006, Zellweger worked in a senior post for the Catholic Agency Caritas in Hong Kong, where she played a key role in pioneering Caritas's involvement in China and North Korea.Mike Chinoy is a nonresident scholar at the 21st Century China Center at the University of California, San Diego. Previously, he was a nonresident senior fellow at the University of Southern California's US-China Institute. Before joining USC, he spent twenty-four years as a foreign correspondent for CNN. He was the network's first bureau chief in Beijing, bureau chief in Hong Kong, and senior Asia correspondent. He also worked for CBS News and NBC News in Hong Kong.