Conference - Turnaround Management Association

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Jack Hamann
Author and Journalist
Jack Hamann lives in Seattle, where he is an
author and journalist. His career spans twentynine
years, including a decade as a network
correspondent and documentary producer
for CNN and PBS. His work has earned
dozens of journalism honors, including ten
regional Emmy awards.
Jack’s assignments have taken him around the
world. He's been inside a pen with wild wolves in
Yellowstone National Park, inside a prison with
convicted killers in Siberia, thirty miles offshore
with fishermen chasing giant tuna in the North
Atlantic, three miles above sea level with peasants
battling blight in Peru, and miles from nowhere
mushing a team of champion dogs in the Yukon.
His lifetime travel also includes Cuba, China, South
Africa, Nepal, Russia, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand,
Panama, Brazil, Argentina and most of Europe and
North America, including all 50 states (Arkansas
was #50).
Jack is the author of On American Soil: How Justice
Became a Casualty of WWII (Algonquin Books, 2005
| University of Washington Press, 2007), a nonfiction
investigative account of one of the largest and
most controversial events in American civil rights
history. On American Soil was selected as the
outstanding investigative book of 2005 by
Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc.
The book was directly responsible for an
October 26, 2007 decision by the U.S. Army
Board for Correction of Military Records to
overturn the verdicts in the infamous 1944
Fort Lawton court-martial. Legislation signed
by President George W. Bush on October 14,
2008 ensured that the surviving defendants,
or their estates, receive back pay, plus compound
interest.
Jack is the winner of the 2007 Horace Mann
award, an honor bestowed on those who have
achieved “victories for humanity.” In 2008, the
Washington State Bar Association honored him for
“Excellence in Legal Journalism,” and the Urban
League presented him with its 2008 "Spirit Award.”
Jack is a graduate of UCLA (B.A. Economics,
1976) and the University of Oregon School of Law
(J.D., 1980).
Jack and his wife, Leslie, coach girls’ volleyball
at a high school in Seattle. They have two grown
children.
TMA Northwest Chapter
would like to thank the
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