"The 2012 Election:

Where Things Stand"

By Karen Tumulty

of the

Washington Post

  January 26, 2012 - 3:15 PM

 at Selby Hall - USF Sarasota Manatee 

                                    Admission Free on a First Come Basis

Karen Tumulty, (born 1955) is a national political correspondent for the Washington Post. Prior to joining the Post, Tumulty wrote for Time magazine from October 1994 to April 2010. Based out of Washington DC she served as a Congressional correspondent as well as the National Political Correspondent for the magazine. 

Tumulty graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BA in Journalism with high honors. She received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1981. 

Her numerous awards began while at the Los Angeles Times, covering Congress, economics, business, energy, and general-assignment beats. While at the Times, she earned the Gerald Loeb Award for distinquished business and financial journalism in 1982, and the National Press Foundation’s Edwin Hood Award for diplomatic correspondence in 1993.  Along with her work in print journalism, she has  appeared as a television news analyst on the public affairs programs Washington Week on PBS, as well as Special Report with Bret Baier on Fox News (as part of the ‘All-Star Panel’)

This rare opportunity will be brought to you through the generosity of Susan Evans to honor her parents, Kathleen and Jim Wood, early leaders of the Lifelong Learning Academy. According to Susan, both Kathleen and Jim, who were active in political causes all their lives, participated in the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama in the 1960s. They followed politics closely and firmly believed that all citizens should be involved in issues important to them. Jim, alive and well at 87, was a P51 fighter pilot in WWII, flying 89 missions.  Later in life, he worked for many years with the Southern Regional Council (SRC) on such important projects as the Voter Education Project which worked to register voters all across the South. At the SRC, Jim worked with John Lewis, Julian Bond, and Vernon Jordan. Kathleen, who died in January 2010, worked in many election campaigns and loved following the political scene through the media. Washington Week in Review was always one of Kathleen’s favorite shows and this lecture was conceived in that light, bringing noted political commentators to the Lifelong Learning Academy to provide insight into the current state of politics.