Purchase College-SUNY hosts Kelefa Sanneh in Conversation with Andrew Salomon in a program free and open to the public. Kelefa Sanneh has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2008 and a contributor since 2001. He previously served as the pop-music critic at The New York Times and as the deputy editor of Transitions, a journal of race and culture based at the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at Harvard University. He has been published in Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, and Blender.