Lecture Date: January 21, 2025
The Chancellor’s Village Lecture
The Sisterhood: The Secret Story of Women at the CIA recounts the true story of the women espionage officers—tough, brilliant, resilient—who helped build the world’s foremost spy agency. It received starred reviews from Booklist and Kirkus, which named it one of the most anticipated non-fiction titles of fall 2023, calling it “a story that deserves to be told about women who deserve to be remembered.” Pulitzer-Prize winning author Steve Coll called it a “rip-roaring read about spycraft” that rewrites our understanding of the events before and after the 9-11 attacks.
Speaker: Liza Mundy
Liza Mundy is an award-winning journalist and the New York Times-bestselling author of five books. Her previous book, Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II (2017),made the best-seller lists of the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. It won awards including “Best General Audience Intelligence Book” of 2018 from the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, which said that “Code Girls does for women of that era what Hidden Figures did for African American women of the 1960s and Windtalkers did for the Native American code communicators of World War II.” Mundy spoke on Code Girls during the 2017 season of Great Lives.
