Date: Sept. 27, 2011
Contact: Carol Connelly, Director, Media & Communication Services, ext. 5267, cconnelly@pnc.edu

 

Nomi Prins will speak at the Sinai Forum on Oct. 16 at 3:00 pm.

OCTOBER SINAI FORUM FEATURES NOMI PRINS

The 58 th season of the Purdue University North Central Sinai Forum will feature author and journalist Nomi Prins, on Oct. 16 at 3 p.m. at Elston Middle School.

Nomi worked on Wall Street as a managing director at Goldman Sachs and ran the international analytics group at Bear Stearns in  London. Today, she is a journalist, lecturer and a Senior Fellow at Demos, a non-partisan public policy research and advocacy organization founded in 2000.

Prins will speak to “Getting it Straight: Economic Revision Time.” She will expose the fundamental follies of the economic system and the schemes of those who have no intention of letting it change. Anyone who may be angry and frustrated with how the bank bailout went bust for the American people, or how Wall Street continues to operate, Prins will provide a deeper understanding of the situation and how to fight for some real change.

She has authored several books. Her most recent is “It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street.” She also published “Other People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America,” an exposé of corporate corruption, political collusion and Wall Street deception. It was chosen as a Best Book of 2004 by “The Economist,” “Barron's” and “The Library Journal.” Her book “Jacked: How ‘Conservatives' are Picking your Pocket (whether you voted for them or not)” details her travels across the country as she talks to people about their economic lives.

There will be a book signing after the program.

The 2011 Forum season is sponsored by the Franciscan Alliance Northern Indiana Hospitals, including Franciscan St. Anthony Health in Michigan City and Crown Point, Franciscan St. Margaret Health in Dyer and Hammond, and Franciscan Physicians Hospital in Munster.

Sinai Forum season subscription tickets are: $75 for regular tickets, $125 for donor tickets and $150 for patron tickets. Any student with a valid ID will be admitted free.

Tickets can be purchased in person with cash or check at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts, 101 W. Second St., Michigan City; Kabelin Hardware, 512 Andrew Ave., LaPorte; The PNC Advancement Office on the Westville Campus and at PNC - Porter County Undergraduate Center, 600 Vale Park Road, Valparaiso. Tickets can be purchased via credit card at www.sinaiforum.org .

Additional information about the Purdue University North Central Sinai Forum is available at www.sinaiforum.org .