When: February 24
Time: 1:30pm
Where: Beth Emet Synagogue, 1224 Dempster St, in Evanston
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Speaker: Zafra Lerman
Topic: Human rights and Peace; A Personal Odyssey
BIO:
Zafra Lerman is a scientist, educator and humanitarian. She received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel and conducted research at Cornell and Northwestern Universities and the ETH, Zurich, Switzerland. She developed an innovative approach of teaching science through art, music, drama, dance, and rap which was successful with underprivileged students around the globe. She worked on human rights cases in the former Soviet Union, Russia, China, Guatemala, Cuba, Peru, and South Africa and was successful in preventing executions, releasing prisoners from jail and bringing dissidents to freedom. She is the President of the Malta Conferences Foundation which uses science diplomacy as a bridge to peace in the Middle East. She received awards, including Presidential Award for Mentoring from President Clinton (1999), Award for Science Diplomacy (2015), American Physical Society Andrei Sakharov Prize for Human Rights (2016), Peace and Justice prize from the UN NOVUS summit (2016), Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering Award from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (2017), and she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by a member of the US Congress and a member of the French Parliament (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2025). On March 6, 2025 she will receive in New York the International Advocate for Peace Award from the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution
Time: 1:30pm
Where: Beth Emet Synagogue, 1224 Dempster St, in Evanston
Guest are Welcome
Click here to RSVP
Speaker: Zafra Lerman
Topic: Human rights and Peace; A Personal Odyssey
BIO:
Zafra Lerman is a scientist, educator and humanitarian. She received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel and conducted research at Cornell and Northwestern Universities and the ETH, Zurich, Switzerland. She developed an innovative approach of teaching science through art, music, drama, dance, and rap which was successful with underprivileged students around the globe. She worked on human rights cases in the former Soviet Union, Russia, China, Guatemala, Cuba, Peru, and South Africa and was successful in preventing executions, releasing prisoners from jail and bringing dissidents to freedom. She is the President of the Malta Conferences Foundation which uses science diplomacy as a bridge to peace in the Middle East. She received awards, including Presidential Award for Mentoring from President Clinton (1999), Award for Science Diplomacy (2015), American Physical Society Andrei Sakharov Prize for Human Rights (2016), Peace and Justice prize from the UN NOVUS summit (2016), Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering Award from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (2017), and she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by a member of the US Congress and a member of the French Parliament (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2025). On March 6, 2025 she will receive in New York the International Advocate for Peace Award from the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution
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