Teaching, Lectures and Media Appearances

No audience is too small for me to launch into a dissertation on some obscure topic. Here I am in Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, speaking to a group of journalists. I rarely miss the chance to meet with African scribes who always teach me more than I teach them.


While writing is my preferred mode of expression, I've reported and directed a few television documentaries, under the overall supervision of San Francisco film-maker David Winton. On radio, I've joined a longtime discussion on public affairs hosted by Corey Dubin, whose radio programs air on non-commercial stations in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. I've also been interviewed by BBC, CNN, the Tom Hartmann show and many other radio and TV outlets.

G. Pascal Zachary regularly lectures before civic groups and at universities, both in the U.S. and internationally. He has taught journalism and writing at Stanford University and the University of California Graduate School of Journalism. He serves as editorial trainer to Stanford's Innovation Journalism program.

On Africa, he has lectured at UC Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, the University of Puget Sound, Colorado College and Stanford University.

On science, technology and society, he's lectured at the Tampa Bay Technology Forum (Florida), the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC), Tufts University, the California Institute of Technology, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other colleges and universities.

On diversity, identity and globalization, he has lectured in Britain, Germany, Iceland and Ghana.


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Zachary is currently lecturing on the following subjects:

Stories we tell about Africa and those we don't:
from the Heart of Darkness to Phat Girlz

Misunderstood Africa: combating stereotypes, building a hopeful vision

Why is Africa Poor?

Global migration, multicultural identity and the New Economy

The diversity advantage

Technology, Development and Africa

Innovation, Location and Economic Growth

Mastery of the Clock: how writers control time to tell compelling stories

Books by Zachary

Nonfiction
The Diversity Advantage: Multicultural Identity in the New World Economy
"Zachary approaches the subject with an enormous amount of research and firsthand reporting."
--The New York Times
Showstopper: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
"Riveting"
--Harvard Business Review
"Gripping"
--Fortune
"Compelling"
--Newsweek
History
Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century
"Deeply informed and insightful, Zachary has thoroughly captured the spirit of Bush and his times."
--New York Times Book Review