Contact / Booking
Speech topics:
- How did the media become a profit machine instead of public servants? How can we be good journalist when the corporations won't let us?
- How to ignore the crumbs and create a whole new pie? Where the message can be heard.
- Perfection is unattainable in fact it does not exist.(see page called Lies of perfection.)
- How to be a good journalist when most of the country no longer honors them, or understands it can be dangerous.
- How corporations can be ruthless in keeping journalists from doing their jobs.
- The FCC and diversity.
- How can journalists earn back the public trust?
- To book Leslie for speaking engagements or stories of your non-profit, or a video for your business, email lesliegriffith@comcast.net
Here is an example of a video Leslie made for one of her favorite non profits:
Previous Events:
Commonwealth Club
KGO Radio
Oprah
U. C. Berkeley Graduate School
San Francisco State university
Stanford university
Numerous Chamber of Commerce speeches
Chabot College
The Women's Health Center in Walnut Creek, California
Women in Journalism
PBS Television Interview
San Francisco Police Department Annual Commendation Awards
Boy Scouts of America
Dozens of California highschools
Hundreds of charitable organizations (Court Appointed Special Advocates, Girls Moving Forward, National Organization for Women, etc.)
I'm speaking at several Universities over the next few months. On Friday In Pleasant Hill, California I will be the keynote speaker at the Young Writers contest for Contra Costa Middle School Students. For more information: Contact lizbooks@aol.com
NOTE: some of the content of this site is reproduced with permission on my wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Griffith
