"How Do We Grow From Here? The Post-Crisis American Economy"

a presentation by David Leonhardt, Business Columnist

The New York Times

7 p.m. Wed., April 6, 2011 7

Apollo Room Student Union Wright State University

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David Leonhardt writes "Economic Scene," a weekly economics column, for The New York Times business section, looking at both the broad American economy and the economics of everyday life. Many of his recent columns have focused on effects of the economic downturn. Mr. Leonhardt is also a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and contributes to the Economix blog. In 2005, he was one of the reporters who produced "Class Matters," the paper's series on social class in the United States. In 2004, he founded an analytical sports column, called "Keeping Score." Before joining The Times in 1999, he worked for Business Week magazine and The Washington Post.

Mr. Leonhardt won the Gerald Loeb Award for magazine writing in 2009 for a Times Magazine article, "Obamanomics." He was a winner of The Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) Best in Business Journalism Contest for his Times column in 2009 and 2007. He was part of a team of Times reporters whose coverage of corporate scandals was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2003. In 1998, he won a Peter Lisagor Award, from the Chicago Headline Club, for a Business Week story on problems at McDonald's.

Born in New York on Jan. 1, 1973, Mr. Leonhardt studied applied mathematics at Yale. He is a third-generation native of New York.

This event is being sponsored by the Wright State University First-Year Experience Program.