Please Join Us in welcoming Cody Keenan & Josh Earnest in conversation on Friday, November 6th @ 12 Noon
Words matter: How President Obama's speechwriter helped to elevate the national conversation
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$67 Nonmember* | $57 Member* | $670 Table* (10 seats) | All tickets include three course meal + presentation (*additional processing fee added on at checkout)
Online reservations close Tuesday, November 3rd @ 5pm. For any questions or reservations after November 3rd, please call Judy Murphy at 312-466-9610
Words matter: How President Obama's speechwriter helped to elevate the national conversation
Speechwriter Cody Keenan, in conversation with Obama's press secretary Josh Earnest, discusses the momentous responsibility of crafting words that would reverberate across the globe.
Keenan and Earnest will take us inside the West Wing during President Obama's second term, when the President and his team faced events of historic significance, often happening within days of one another. Throughout it all, they sought to represent the President's insistence on hope and confidence in the American people, always accompanied by a call to action.
More on Cody and Josh
Chicagoan Cody Keenan is a partner at Fenway Strategies, a speechwriting firm, and teaches a popular course on speechwriting at his undergraduate alma mater, Northwestern University. In addition, he is the author of Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America.
Josh Earnest is executive vice president of communications and advertising for United Airlines. And before joining United, Josh spent two decades in politics and government, including White House Press Secretary from 2014 to 2017 and as an analyst for NBC News from 2017-2018.