Academy Award-winning actor Geena Davis founded is speaking tonight in Little Rock.  She is being hosted by the University of Arkansas Clinton School for Public Service and the William J. Clinton Foundation.

She founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media in 2004. The institute is the only research-based organization working within the media and entertainment industry to engage, educate and influence the need for gender balance, reducing stereotyping and creating a wide variety of female characters in entertainment. Davis won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in “The Accidental Tourist” in 1988.

The lecture is being held in the Wally Allen Ballroom of the Statehouse Convention Center at 6:00 pm.  Seating is limited and reservations are required.  To make a reservation, email publicprograms@clintonschool.uasys.edu, or call 501-683-5239.