2009 Presenters
Leslie Gilbert-Lurie
A former writer and executive at NBC, Leslie Gilbert-Lurie is the President of the Los Angeles County Board of Education and has been appointed to help devise a new Cultural Master Plan for the city. A founding member and past president of the non-profit Alliance for Children’s Rights, she has worked at a major Los Angeles law firm, served as a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals law clerk, and has been a member of the boards of directors for the Los Angeles Music Center and the New Roads Foundation, among other organizations. She has been a recipient of the American Jewish Congress’s Tzedek Award for Outstanding Commitment to Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, and Justice. She lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and two children.
Bending Toward The Sun (HarperCollins) is a beautifully written family memoir that explores a hidden emotional legacy - forged in the terror of the Holocaust - that has shaped three generations of lives.
APPEARING IN: The Examined Life
