Oct. 28: Ingrid Betancourt in San Francisco



Ingrid Betancourt
Photo by Tess Steinkolt

Tickets are selling fast for IMOW’s latest Extraordinary Voices, Extraordinary Change Speaker Series featuring Ingrid Betancourt. Purchase yours today!
Former Colombian Senator and activist Ingrid Betancourt tells the story of her six and a half years of captivity in the Colombian jungle. Join us as she discusses her much-anticipated memoir, Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle. Learn more>>
Ingrid Betancourt will appear in conversation with Jeanne Carstensen, managing editor of The Bay Citizen, a nonprofit news organization in San Francisco that covers civic issues and produces the Bay Area pages of the New York Times.
Event details: Thursday, October 28, 2010 from 7:00pm, followed by book sale and signing with Book Passage. Schwab Center, 211 Main Street (at Howard), San Francisco, California. Seating is limited. Reserve your tickets now! An RSVP is required. For more information email events@imow.org or call 415-543-4669  ext. 27.
A limited number of tickets are also available for a 5:00pm private reception with Ingrid Betancourt preceding the Speakers Series program. The ticket cost is $150 (includes program ticket valued at $25). To purchase reception tickets, please email irene@imow.org or call 415-543-4669 x27 by October 22. For those who can't attend this Speaker Series, a podcast of the conversation will be available on IMOW.org shortly after the event.
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