MSU Leadership Institute Presents Human Rights Activist Kelly Matheson, 3/8, Bozeman, Montana

"Matheson is a powerful beacon of human rights advocacy, shining a light and exposing truths we often do not see," said Carmen McSpadden, director of the MSU Leadership Institute http://www.montana.edu/leadership/ .

Human rights attorney and award-winning filmmaker Kelly Matheson will speak at Montana State University at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 8, in the Strand Union Building Ballrooms.

Tickets are free and available beginning Friday, Jan. 22, at local TicketsWest locations and the Bobcat Ticket Office.

A graduate of MSU’s Science and Natural History Filmmaking program who has a part-time home in Bozeman, Matheson currently leads the Video as Evidence program for WITNESS, an organization dedicated to exposing human rights abuses through film across the globe. As head of the program, Matheson teaches filmmaking skills to activists worldwide in order to spark change. She then works to ensure that the videos that activists collect can be used as evidence in courts of law to secure justice.

Full Event Information: http://www.montana.edu/news/15935/award-winning-human-rights-activist-kelly-matheson-to-speak-at-msu-on-march-8