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Presented with the Fairfield University Office of the President, the Bennett Center for Judaic Studies, the College of Arts and Sciences Common Ground Series, and the Jewish Federation of Greater Fairfield County.

Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly.

From 2017 to 2020, Bari was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet Magazine.

Bari has won several awards, including the LA Press Club's 2021 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism, the Per Ahlmark (ALL-MARK) award in recognition of her moral courage and Reason Foundation’s 2018 Bastiat (BAS-TEE-YAAT) Prize, which honors writing that “best demonstrates the importance of freedom with originality, wit, and eloquence.” In 2019, Vanity Fair called Bari the Times's "star opinion writer."

Bari is a proud Pittsburgh native. Her first book, "How to Fight Anti-Semitism," was the winner of a 2019 National Jewish Book Award.
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