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Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen featuring Jeffrey Sachs

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Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen featuring Jeffrey Sachs

January 8, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST

$20

Person Place Thing is an interview show hosted by Randy Cohen based on the idea that people are particularly engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but about something they care about.

Cohen’s guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing that are important to them. The result: surprising stories from great speakers. This installment of Person Place Thing, the first of three at the Center for Architecture, will be a conversation with Jeffrey Sachs. This will be the first of three installments presented at the Center for Architecture.

This event will be recorded for broadcast on Northeast Public Radio. For more information and to hear past episodes, visit PersonPlaceThing.org.

Speakers:
Randy Cohen, host, Person Place Thing
Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University

Randy Cohen’s first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays, and stories for newspapers and magazines (The New YorkerHarpersThe Atlantic, Young Love Comics). His first television work was writing for “Late Night With David Letterman,” for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore’s “TV Nation.” He received a fifth Emmy as a result of a clerical error, and he kept it. For twelve years he wrote “The Ethicist,” a weekly column for The New York Times Magazine. His most recent book, Be Good: How to Navigate the Ethics of Everything, was published by Chronicle.

Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned professor of economics, leader in sustainable development, senior UN advisor, bestselling author, and syndicated columnist whose monthly newspaper columns appear in more than 100 countries. He is the co-recipient of the 2015 Blue Planet Prize, the leading global prize for environmental leadership. He has twice been named among Time magazine’s 100 most influential world leaders. He was called by the New York Times, “probably the most important economist in the world,” and by Time magazine “the world’s best-known economist.” A recent survey by The Economist ranked Professor Sachs as among the world’s three most influential living economists of the past decade.

Details

Date:
January 8, 2019
Time:
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST
Cost:
$20
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Website:
http://calendar.aiany.org/2018/11/01/person-place-thing-with-randy-cohen-featuring-jeffrey-sachs/

Organizers

AIANY | Center for Architecture
Person Place Thing

Venue

AIANY Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
New York, NY 10012 United States
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Phone
212-683-0023
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