Omnibus speaker Ashley C. Ford to hold pre-lecture news conference

FORT WAYNE, Ind.—Ashley C. Ford, Purdue University Fort Wayne’s second presenter in the 2021–22 Omnibus Speaker Series, will hold a news conference Thursday at 4 p.m. in the Idea Center on the first floor of Helmke Library.

Ford will take questions during the open news conference; however, she will not be doing any one-on-one interviews. Members of the media are invited to stay and observe an hour-long session with Ford and Purdue Fort Wayne students that will begin at 4:30 p.m.

A native of Fort Wayne, Ford has found her way to the New York Times Best Seller list with her debut memoir, Somebody’s Daughter—a story of reckoning with your past to take hold of your future and of finding love for those you have yet to forgive.

A prolific author, Ford has written or guest-edited for ELLE Magazine, Slate, Teen Vogue, New York Magazine, the New York Times, Domino, Cup of Jo, and various other web and print publications. She’s also the former host of The Chronicles of Now podcast and cohost of the HBO companion podcast Lovecraft Country Radio.

Ford was named among Forbes’s 30 Under 30 in Media in 2017, Brooklyn Magazine’s Brooklyn 100 in 2016, Time Out’s New Yorkers of The Year in 2017, and Variety’s New Power of New York in 2019. She currently lives in Indianapolis with her husband, poet and fiction writer Kelly Stacy, and their chocolate lab, Astro Renegade Ford-Stacy.

Ford will present "Somebody's Daughter at 7:30 p.m. in the Auter Performance Hall in the Rhinehart Music Center. Tickets are still available.

For more information, contact Geoff Thomas, senior director of media relations, at [email protected] or 260-437-7657 (mobile).