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In conversation with Clarissa Ward

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For more than a decade, Clarissa Ward has reported from front lines across the world including Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and Georgia. She has distinguished herself with in-depth, high-risk reporting often focusing on the untold stories of what life is really like for those caught in the crossfire. 

Join our Executive Director, Brita Fernandez Schmidt, for this special online event as they discuss insights and reflections from Clarissa's newly released book On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist.

To ensure this important conversation is available to as many of our supporters as possible, we have priced the tickets on a sliding scale. Please contribute what you can.

100% of the proceeds will go towards our work supporting women survivors of war. 

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21st September

6pm Start time

Tickets Starting at £3

"With great empathy, Ward shows us what her viewers don’t see—the logistical, physical and emotional challenges of going to the toughest places," writes Rania Abouzeid, author of No Turning Back. Life, Loss, And Hope In Wartime Syria
"With great empathy, Ward shows us what her viewers don’t see—the logistical, physical and emotional challenges of going to the toughest places," writes Rania Abouzeid, author of No Turning Back. Life, Loss, And Hope In Wartime Syria

Reporting from the front lines

On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist

“On All Fronts takes the reader on a riveting journey of storytelling. . . [she] navigates the most intense of human experiences while finding the tools to stay emotional," writes photojournalist, Lynsey Addario.

Join us and learn the unforgettable story of one extraordinary journalist and how women living in conflict-affected countries are facing the impact of war. 

As an added bonus, everyone who joins the event will get a chance to win a signed copy of On All Fronts! Terms and conditions apply.

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Meet the inspiring speakers

In her fifteen-year career spanning Fox, CBS, and ABC, Clarissa has reported from front lines across the world.
In her fifteen-year career spanning Fox, CBS, and ABC, Clarissa has reported from front lines across the world.

Clarissa Ward

CNN’s chief international correspondent

In her fifteen-year career spanning Fox, CBS, and ABC, Clarissa has reported from front lines across the world. She has won five Emmy Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, two Edward R. Murrow Awards for distinguished journalism, honors from the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association, the 2016 David Kaplan Award from the Overseas Press Club, and the Excellence in International Reporting Award from the International Center for Journalists.

She graduated with distinction from Yale University, and in 2013 received an honorary doctor of letters degree from Middlebury College in Vermont. She lives in London.

Brita co-leads Women for Women International - UK as Executive Director and has worked at the organisation for more than 10 years. She frequently writes and speaks about the challenges women face all over the world in the context of poverty and conflict.
Brita co-leads Women for Women International - UK as Executive Director and has worked at the organisation for more than 10 years. She frequently writes and speaks about the challenges women face all over the world in the context of poverty and conflict.

Brita Fernandez Schmidt

Executive Director of Women for Women International - UK

Brita is an advocate and promoter of women’s empowerment, women’s rights and equality. Brita is also the Chair of Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS). Previously she was a Commissioner to the UK Women’s National Commission, Chair of the Gender and Development Network, Director for Programmes and Policy at Womankind Worldwide, board member of BOND and she started her career at the European Women’s Lobby.

Brita holds a MA in Women’s Studies from the University of Sussex. Originally from Germany, Brita went to school in Venezuela. She now lives in the UK with her husband and two daughters.