Crosscut Festival
Recommended
This event is in the past
Fri May 3, 7:30–9:30 pm & Sat May 4, 9 am–6 pm, ended May 4, 2019
Seattle University
First Hill (Seattle)
$20 - $250
In the style of the New Yorker Festival, local news site Crosscut presents two days of timely conversations with journalists, authors, and politicians. This year's highlights include Valerie Jarrett (who served as a senior adviser for President Barack Obama), Janet Napolitano (the former Secretary of Homeland Security), Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas, Pod Save the People host DeRay McKesson, Washington Post investigative reporter Emma Brown, KUOW Online Editor and former Stranger staffer Sydney Brownstone, and many others.