Marc Freedman, founder and CEO of Encore.org, will deliver a lecture about the role higher education can play in supporting adults looking for a career change in their second half of life.
The talk will take place at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, at the Mildred E. Bastian Theatre at the St. Louis Community College Forest Park Campus.
Sponsors are the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis; the Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging at WUSTL’s Institute for Public Health; St. Louis Community College Continuing Education; and the OASIS Institute.
Freedman is the author of The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife and a frequent commentator in the national media. He has been recognized by Fast Company magazine as one of the nation’s leading social entrepreneurs, and, in 2012, was named by AARP The Magazine as of “The Influentials,” 50 people over 50.
The lecture is free and open to the public. To register and for more information, visit here.