Annual Dinner 2013

Mother Jones - Annual Dinner

Last year's Mother Jones annual dinner attendees got the inside scoop on the 47 percent directly from David Corn less than a month after he broke the story. Do you want to be part of the insider conversation, too? It's easy. Join us for the fourth annual Mother Jones dinner on October 24.

Helping us celebrate another year of hellraising is emcee for the evening, comedian, and author of the New York Times bestseller How To Be Black, Baratunde Thurston. During the program, you'll get a chance to dive into the stories—think feature magazine reporting, but live—as our reporters put a human face on climate change, bring our global troubles up close and personal, and turn Big Data into compelling journalism. And, on deck to help us raise important funds to help Mother Jones land the next 47 percent scoop is the incomparable Mark Buell, leading us in our one-of-a-kind live auction and fund-a-need. It's an evening not to be missed.

This event does sell out, so secure your reservations soon!

 

EMCEE:

Baratunde Thurston

Baratunde Thurston

Baratunde Thurston is a politically-active, technology-loving comedian from the future. He co-founded the black political blog, Jack and Jill Politics and served as Director of Digital for The Onion before launching the comedy/technology startup Cultivated Wit. Then-candidate Barack Obama called him "someone I need to know." Baratunde travels the world speaking and advising and performs standup regularly in NYC. He resides in Brooklyn, lives on Twitter, and has over 30 years experience being black. He writes the monthly backpage column for Fast Company, and his first book, How To Be Black, is a New York Times bestseller.

FEATURING:

Tasneem Raja

Tasneem Raja
Interactive editor

Tasneem Raja is MoJo's interactive editor. She specializes in web app production, interactive graphics, and user interface design. Before joining Mother Jones, she was an interactive producer at the Bay Citizen. Before crossing over to the dark side, she was a features reporter and copyeditor at the Chicago Reader.

James West

James West
Senior producer of Climate Desk

James West is senior producer of Climate Desk, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between The Atlantic, CIR, Grist, the Guardian, Mother Jones, Slate, Wired & PBS. He's the author of Beijing Blur (Penguin 2008), an intimate yet far-reaching account of his year submerged in China's underground punk, activist, and queer scenes. (A must read, he says.) After completing a masters in journalism at New York University in 2007, James returned to his native Down Under where he worked as the executive producer of the national affairs news program Hack at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He has produced a variety of Australian television and radio programs, including the live debate show Insight on SBS TV (and one wild, hour-long documentary about Kyrgyzstan's first parliamentary elections that involved the scariest flight of his life on a plane banned by the EU). He now lives in Brooklyn, where the coffee is... well... better. Oh: Twitter addict. Follow him. He wants more followers: @jameswest2010.

THE EVENT:

What

Join us for a night of good food, good conversation, and good friends—for a great cause. With feature presentations, gourmet sit-down dinner, live auction and fund-a-need, and more.

Tickets to the reception and dinner are $250 per person.

When

Thursday, October 24, 2013
6:30 — 9:30 p.m.

Where

The St. Regis Hotel
125 3rd Street
San Francisco, California

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For more information about sponsorship opportunities, click here, or call (415) 321-1762.
Contributions received by October 17, 2013, will be listed in the dinner program.

Event Co-chairs

Susie Tompkins Buell & Mark Buell

Susan Pritzker

Wendy Schmidt

Event Host committee & sponsors

List in formation

  • Harriett Levin Balkind
  • Harriet Barlow
  • Mimi & Peter Buckley
  • Jane Butcher
  • André Carothers & Firuzeh Mahmoudi
  • Deirdre English
  • Diane Filippi
  • Sara Frankel
  • Janie & Don Friend
  • Adam & Arlie Hochschild
  • Kristin Hull
  • Peggy & Ed Kavounas
  • Kim Keller
  • Pamela & Marty Krasney
  • Anna Hawken McKay & Rob McKay
  • Barbara & Rick Melcher
  • Carolyn Mugar
  • Jon Pageler
  • Panta Rhea Foundation
  • Ken Pelletier & Amanda Lao
  • Francie Petrocelli & Dr. Charles Wilson
  • The Quixote Foundation
  • Paula Rantz
  • Amy Rao & Harry Plant
  • The Rosenthal Family Foundation
  • Orville Schell
  • Chara Schreyer & Gordon Freund
  • Kevin Simmons
  • Nancy Stephens & Rick Rosenthal
  • Phil Straus
  • Darian & Rick Swig
  • Mindy Uhrlaub
  • Mary Wohlford Foundation
  • Jamie Rosenthal Wolf & David Wolf

Special thanks to:

Organic Events Drew Altizer Photography St. Regis
 

 

Don't miss this very special event.
We look forward to celebrating another year of unflinching, uncensored,
and unapologetic journalism with you on October 24!