Dinner presentation on “What Were You Thinking: Latest global solutions tackling extremism and cyber-hacking.” NPR correspondent Dina Temple-Raston has just completed the first season of a podcast that looks at the adolescent decision making process. Two of the episodes of “What Were You Thinking?” look at radicalization and cyber-hacking. Temple-Raston will share what her reporting has revealed about rehabilitation efforts for radicalized youth in Minnesota and Morocco and will talk about innovative programs in Israel that are channeling young people away from criminal cyber-hacking.

Speaker’s biography
Dina Temple-Raston is currently on leave as NPR’s counter-terrorism correspondent and is finishing work on a podcast that focuses on brain science and the adolescent decision making process. The podcast will be released by Audible and NPR in the Fall. She has been reporting from all over the world for the NPR’s news magazines since 2007 was the recipient of a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University where she studied the intersection of Big Data and intelligence, and has written a number of books including “The Jihad Next Door: Rough Justice in the Age of Terror,” about the Lackawanna Six terrorism case. She is a frequent contributor to the PBS Newshour, a regular reviewer of national security books for the Washington Post Book World, and also contributes to the New Yorker, WNYC’s Radiolab, the TLS, and the Columbia Journalism Review, among others. She is a graduate of Northwestern University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and she has an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Manhattanville College.

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