SHU to Host Jenna Bush, Jan. 24

FAIRFIELD, Conn.—Jenna Bush Hager will be the next speaker in Sacred Heart University’s Distinguished Leaders Series. Co-sponsored by WSHU, the event will take place Wednesday, January 24, at 6 p.m. in SHU’s Martire Center Atrium. The public is invited and signed copies of Hager’s book, Sisters First, co-written with her twin sister, Barbara Pierce Bush, will be available for sale.

The Distinguished Leaders Series features leaders from a variety of sectors who have made significant business and public service contributions. It is presented and hosted by SHU Trustee Katie Burke, who serves as senior strategist and global chief of staff at Edelman.

Hager is a New York Times best-selling author, an editor-at-large for Southern Living magazine and a correspondent for NBC News. She previously worked as a teacher’s aide at the Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. Her first book about this experience, titled Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope, was published in 2007. A second book, Read All About It!, was written in conjunction with her mother First Lady Laura Bush and encourages children to read.

Hager is on the board of the Greenwich International Film festival. She is married to Henry Chase Hager, and the couple has two daughters.

About Sacred Heart University

Sacred Heart University, the second-largest independent Catholic university in New England, offers more than 70 undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and certificate programs on its main campus in Fairfield, Conn., and satellites in Connecticut, Luxembourg and Ireland. More than 8,500 students attend the University’s five colleges: Arts & Sciences; Health Professions; Nursing; the Jack Welch College of Business; and the Isabelle Farrington College of Education. The Princeton Review includes SHU in its guides, Best 382 Colleges–2018 Edition, “Best in the Northeast” and Best 267 Business Schools–2018 Edition. It also placed SHU on its lists for “Best College Theater” and “Most Engaged in Community Service,” each of which comprises only 20 U.S. schools. U.S.News & World Report ranks SHU in its Best Colleges 2018 guidebook and calls SHU the fourth “Most Innovative School” in the North. The Chronicle of Higher Education also names SHU one of the fastest-growing Roman Catholic universities in its 2016 almanac. Sacred Heart fields 32 Division I athletic teams and has an award-winning program of community service. www.sacredheart.edu