First Book Seattle is holding its 2nd annual 'What was your First Book?' fundraising read-a-thon on Saturday at Richard Hugo House (1634 11th Ave, Seattle) from 10am to noon on May 18th.
An exciting and eclectic group of Seattle celebrities will come together to read the first book they remember falling in love with.
For more than 25years, Margaret Larson has worked as a broadcast journalist, most notably with NBC News as a foreign correspondent based in London, news anchor for the Today show and Dateline NBC reporter, and as a reporter/news anchor at KING-TV in Seattle. During the Kurdish refugee crisis in southern Turkey at the end of the first Persian Gulf War, she began reporting on global humanitarian crises. What she learned and experienced changed her outlook, her career and her life. Margaret devotes time to international causes in partnership with Mercy Corps and has formed a communications consulting practice for international nonprofit organizations including World Vision, Mercy Corps, PATH and Global Partnerships, creating video and online content to serve humanitarian causes. Margaret has won broadcast journalism awards including four Emmys, two national Clarion awards, three Telly awards and a national Society of Professional Journalists award. Additionally, she has been recognized with the Headliner Award from the Association of Women in Communication ('04), "Best Voice for Humanitarianism" by Seattle Weekly ('05), Women of Vision award by the "Women Work!" organization ('07) and chosen to create the profile videos for the global humanitarian Opus Prize awardees in Nicaragua, India, and Burundi ('08).
Margaret will read "Oh the Places You'll Go", by Dr. Seuss.
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