Mark Jenkins, a critically-acclaimed author and staff writer for National Geographic originally from Laramie, speaks at Central Wyoming College on the fate of Africa’s mountain gorilla Friday, Feb. 26 at 4 p.m.
Jenkins’ presentation on the CWC campus is the first of an International Studies Scholar Lecture series and will be held in the Little Theatre, located in the CWC Student Center.
Jenkins’ presentation on the CWC campus is the first of an International Studies Scholar Lecture series and will be held in the Little Theatre, located in the CWC Student Center.
Jenkins, a writer-in-residence at the University of Wyoming, will take the CWC audience into the world of the mountain gorilla, one of the most endangered species on earth. Through award-winning photography, Jenkins unveils a dangerous journey into Virunga National Park, in eastern Congo, to determine who has been killing the mountain gorillas. His story, which first appeared in National Geographic, won the 2009 National Magazine Award for photojournalism and will soon be made into a BBC documentary starring Natalie Portman.
A global journalist, Jenkins covers the world writing about geopolitical issues, from landmines in Cambodia to HIV/AIDS in Botswana, ethnic cleansing in Burma to mountaineering in Pakistan. In the process of his expedition into the eastern Congo, Jenkins learned how “all of us are in fact intimately connected” to the mountain gorillas.
The author of four books, Jenkins works have been widely praised and translated. Jenkins has been published in more than 50 national and international magazines and newspapers, including The Atlantic Monthly, Bicycling, Backpacker, Conde Naste Traveler, GQ, Outside, Playboy, Sierra, Sports Afield, the Utne Reader and The Washington Post. He has been interviewed by Anderson Cooper 360, Good Morning America, The Crier Report, CNN, PBS, BBC and NPR. He has been a guest on a host of radio programs.
For the past six years, Jenkins’ column, The Hard Way, has explored the meaning and joy of the physical, outdoor life. From clandestine journeys across Tibet to mountaineering in Bolivia, sea kayaking around Turkey’s Gallipoli peninsula to canyoneering in Australia, Jenkins covers the globe in search of adventure, history and human understanding.
His visit to the CWC campus is a result of a grant awarded to the University of Wyoming and CWC to grow international studies programs at UW and at the state’s community colleges
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