David will join us to address some critical community questions given what he calls our "age of fragmentation and division." How do we become the sort of people who can build trust where there is distrust? How can we connect and offer care across race and other differences? How can we learn to deeply know and respect other people, and be deeply known?
“2019 has been a celebration of our first 100 years and a time to look toward our future and our next century of service to the community,” said Scott Wierman, president of The Winston-Salem Foundation. “We felt that bringing a speaker such as David Brooks, with national significance, to speak about connecting our community was the perfect way to culminate this year’s efforts to engage and thank Winston-Salem for its legacy of generosity.”
Presigned copies of Brooks' most recent book, The Second Mountain, will be available to purchase before and after the keynote thanks to Bookmarks.
The event is free to the public, but reservations are required. Doors will open at 5:30pm. To register, visit
wsfoundation.org/davidbrooks
David Brooks is an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times, a position he began in September 2003, as well as an Executive Director at the Aspen Institute. He is currently a commentator on
The PBS Newshour, NPR’s
All Things Considered, and NBC’s
Meet the Press. Mr. Brooks’s most recent book,
The Second Mountain, was released in 2019. He is also the author of
The Road to Character,
Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There, and
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement. Mr. Brooks is on the faculty of Yale University, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
The Winston-Salem Foundation is a community foundation that supports charitable programs in the greater Forsyth County area. Founded in 1919 with a $1,000 gift, it now administers over 1,500 funds and had total custodial assets of more than $565 million at the end of 2018. In 2018, the Foundation granted $58.6 million to charitable causes, $1.9 million of which was through its Community Grants program. Learn more at wsfoundation.org.