Smarttalk Connected Conversations Series in Wilmington rolls on featuring Bonnie St. John tomorrow night!
Despite having her right leg amputated at age five, Bonnie St. John became the first African-American ever to win Olympic or Paralympic medals in ski racing, taking home a silver and two bronze medals in downhill events at the 1984 Paralympics in Innsbruck, Austria. In recognition of this historic achievement, St. John was quoted on millions of Starbucks coffee cups and was honored at the White House by President George W. Bush.
St. John has achieved the highest levels of success in a variety of endeavors throughout her life. In addition to her success as a Paralympic athlete, she is a best-selling author, a highly sought after keynote speaker, a television and radio personality, a business owner and the single mother of a teenage daughter. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University in 1986 and won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, taking an M.Litt. in Economics. Upon her return to the United States, St. John was appointed by President Bill Clinton as a Director for Human Capital Issues on the White House National Economic Council.
Today, St. John travels the globe speaking, leading seminars and researching her various writing projects. She frequently donates personal appearances to schools, homeless shelters, community groups and other organizations in hundreds of locations while traveling for corporate clients. During the winter, she coaches disabled ski racers for the Adaptive Sports Foundation in Windham, New York. In 2010, St. John once again represented the USA as a member of President Obama’s official delegation to the Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver.
The celebrated author of six books, St. John co-authored her most recent #1 bestseller, How Great Women Lead, with her teenage daughter, Darcy. Together they traveled around the world on an extraordinary mother-daughter journey into the lives and life lessons of fascinating women leaders including Hillary Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, fashion designers, CEOs, women’s rights activists and many more.
NBC Nightly News called St. John, “One of the five most inspiring women in America.” She has been featured extensively in both national and international media including: The Today Show, CNN, CBS Morning News, NBC News, PBS, NPR and The New York Times, as well as People, “O” and Essence magazines, to name just a few.
This is one woman who knows how to not only live life but to live life in a positive way – you are going to positively LOVE her!
What: SmartTalk Connected Conversations Series with Bonnie St. John
Where: The DuPont Theatre | 1007 Market Street, Wilmington, DE 19801
When: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 7:30 PM
Cost: $50.00 – $75.00
Buy your tickets online here.