2010-03-04 / Schools

Nobel laureate speaks in T.O.


SPECIALIST IN MICROFINANCE— Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, is the author of “Creating a World Without Poverty,” CSU Channel Islands’ Campus Reading Celebration selection for 2010. He spoke last Friday at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza. Former NBC News correspondant Michael Okwu asked questions. Yunus is the founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and serves as a mentor and adviser to CSUCI. WENDY PIERRO Acorn Newspapers SPECIALIST IN MICROFINANCE— Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, is the author of “Creating a World Without Poverty,” CSU Channel Islands’ Campus Reading Celebration selection for 2010. He spoke last Friday at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza. Former NBC News correspondant Michael Okwu asked questions. Yunus is the founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and serves as a mentor and adviser to CSUCI. WENDY PIERRO Acorn Newspapers

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