Thursday, January 2, 2025
BLUE HILL—The Blue Hill Public Library will sponsor a talk by East Blue Hill residents Jeanne Bourgault and Dr. Ray Jennings on rapid political change on Thursday, January 9, at 7 p.m. as part of the community events offered in association with the Camden Conference. The conference, according to its website, “was founded in 1987 as a nonprofit, non-partisan educational organization whose mission is to foster informed discourse on world issues.”
Drawing on their combined experiences working around the world during times of crises and violence, Bourgault and Jennings will discuss information influences in revolutions and democratic change, and how information movement and the media can be political actors in these spaces.
As president and CEO of Internews, Bourgault leads the organization’s strategic management and its programs in more than 100 countries around the world. Under her leadership, Internews has helped foster independent media sectors in countries such as Jordan and South Sudan, and provided lifesaving information to people during crises in Ukraine, Myanmar, and Afghanistan, according to a press release from the library.
Since 1994, Jennings has served as a country director and senior advisor with the United Nations, the World Bank, the United States Institute of Peace, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), working in more than 30 countries experiencing civil violence, ethnic conflict, forced displacement, and political transition.
For more information on this event, email kayleigh.thomas@bhpl.net or call the library at 374-5515. For more information about the Camden Conference, visit camdenconference.org. 
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