Join The Carter Center for a speaker luncheon commemorating the life and legacy of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
Jimmy Carter was a man of high principle, steadfast integrity, and deep religious faith who dedicated his life to public service. As a private citizen and public official, he pursued the causes of human rights, peace, and care for the least fortunate with passionate determination and boundless energy. Throughout his life, he repeatedly placed what he believed to be right above personal and political considerations. His quiet voice and ready smile masked a bulldog determination and an adherence to principle.
In 1982, President Jimmy Carter and Mrs. Rosalynn Carter founded The Carter Center to “wage peace, fight disease, and build hope” in nations around the world. In 2002, during the 20th anniversary year of the Carter Center’s founding, President Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.”
Read more about the remarkable life of Jimmy Carter here and Rosalynn Carter here.
Learn more about the work of The Carter Center here.
Steven H. Hochman joined President Carter in Plains, Georgia in 1981 to assist with writing his presidential memoir. Dr. Hochman was the first staff member he hired in 1982 for The Carter Center and was a key player in the establishment of development of that institution.
Continuing as assistant to President Carter, Hochman helped him with most of his 32 books and other publications and coordinated his academic affairs as Emory University Distinguished Professor. Hochman served as Director of Research at the Center, and on the faculty of Emory. He taught courses in the Departments of History and Political Science on Thomas Jefferson and on NGOs and Public Policy. His own writings and lectures have focused on The Carter Center and on American history.
He was named a Thomas Jefferson Foundation Fellow at the University of Virginia, where he earned a Ph.D. in History. At this institution founded by Jefferson, he became the research assistant to Dumas Malone who, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, was at work on a six-volume biography of Jefferson. Hochman assisted with the final three volumes, and the series was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History.
In February 2024, Hochman retired from Emory University and The Carter Center. He continued to provide support as needed for President Carter.
With introduction by:
Nicole Kruse, Vice President of Development, The Carter Center
Visit this page for exciting updates on our lineup of distinguished speakers, coming soon!
Peter Humi has more than five decades of experience in journalism. His first involvement, at 16, was in 1972 as a part-time assistant at the UPI news desk on London’s Fleet Street. From 1980 and for the following twenty-five years, he covered some of the world’s major news stories on and for CNN.
From the Lebanese and Yugoslav Civil Wars to the collapse of Communism and the Gulf War to the subsequent rise of global terrorism and the turmoil in the Middle East, CNN led the field in its round-the-clock coverage of unfolding news events. Humi helped write, produce, report, and organize some of CNN’s most memorable programming of some of the world’s most memorable events.
He is currently using his experience to teach at universities and to help top executives from the energy, finance, and travel industries, amongst others, make successful, dynamic, and memorable presentations and speeches and crisp, clear, and compelling media interviews.
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