Jodi Kantor, Krys Boyd to headline Jamison Lecture

April 1, 2025 — DENTON — The 2025 Jamison Lecture will feature Jodi Kantor, best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times whose work reveals hidden truths about power, law, gender, technology and culture.

The Power of Truth: An Evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning Investigative Journalist Jodi Kantor, will be hosted by Krys Boyd of KERA-FM’s flagship midday talk show Think and will take place Thursday, April 10, at 7 p.m. in the Phyllis J. Bridges Auditorium of TWU's Student Union at Hubbard Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public. Registration is required.

A question-and-answer session will follow the lecture. The first 50 students to attend the lecture will receive a free, signed copy of Kantor's book, She Said.

For the past two years, Kantor has been working to shed light on one of the country's most critical, powerful and least-understood institutions: the Supreme Court. Together with her New York Times colleagues, Kantor revealed the behind-the-scenes story of how the justices overturned the constitutional right to abortion, problems with the investigation into the leak of that opinion and a secret influence effort by anti-abortion activists and another alleged breach. In the spring of 2024, Kantor broke the news of two provocative flags, associated with efforts to overturn the 2020 election, displayed at the homes of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. Her work raised widespread public concern and renewed calls from lawmakers to address ethical standards at the court.

In 2017, Kantor and Megan Twohey broke the story of decades of sexual abuse allegations against the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Their work helped shift the culture, protect women around the world and spur a chain of truth-telling that continues to this day. Together with a team of colleagues who exposed harassment across industries, they were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service, journalism’s highest award.

Kantor and Twohey wrote She Said, about the Weinstein investigation. The book was called “an instant classic of investigative journalism” by the Washington Post and one of the best books of the year by the New York Public Library, NPR, The New York Times, Time, and many other publications. “Watching Kantor and Twohey pursue their goal while guarding each other’s back is as exhilarating as watching Megan Rapinoe and Crystal Dunn on the pitch,” Susan Faludi wrote.

Kantor and Twohey later wrote Chasing the Truth, about the Weinstein investigation.

Kantor began her career at Slate.com and joined The Times in 2003 as the editor of the Sunday Arts & Leisure section. For six years, she wrote about former president Barack Obama and Michelle Obama. Her book The Obamas chronicled the adjustment to the roles of president and first lady.

The host for this year's Jamison Lecture is Krys Boyd, a fixture in Dallas-Fort Worth media for almost 30 years.

Boyd began her career along the U.S.-Mexico border, working simultaneously at radio and television stations as a reporter, anchor and news director. A graduate of TCU, Boyd returned to North Texas in 1999 to serve as news director for Broadcast.com, and later senior producer of Broadcast News at Yahoo.

Boyd joined KERA in 2001, hosting the nightly radio talk show Conversations. Later, she wrote and produced documentary and educational television programs, including the critically-acclaimed, nationally-broadcast JFK: Breaking the News in 2003, and served as producer and co-host of the Emmy Award-winning public affairs program On the Record. Think was named “Best Radio Talk Show” of Dallas by the Dallas Observer in 2009, and Boyd was declared “Best Broadcaster for Radio in Dallas” by D Magazine in 2010, and won the PRNDI award for best call-in program in 2012. Boyd and her husband, Matt, live in Dallas and have four children.

The Jamison Lecture is an annual event that brings nationally and internationally recognized scholars and civic leaders to TWU for a public lecture. It is made possible by the Alonzo and Elisabeth Jamison Lectureship Endowment, which assists the TWU Department of Social Sciences & Historical Studies in hosting the lecture. The late Alonzo Jamison represented Denton County in the Texas House of Representatives for 14 years, then served on the TWU faculty and as Chair of the Department of History and Government. His wife of 62 years, Elisabeth, was a TWU alumna who also taught at the university.