The Memoir Lecture: Christian Cooper

Christian Cooper delivers the 2024 Memoir lecture on his book, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from A Black Man in the Natural World

6 pm reception/6:30 pm program
Free to members/$25 nonmembers
Registration required

Christian Cooper is a science and comics writer and editor and the host and consulting producer of Extraordinary Birder on National Geographic. One of Marvel’s first openly gay writers and editors, Cooper introduced the first gay male character in Star Trek, in the Starfleet Academy series, which was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award. He also introduced the first openly lesbian character for Marvel and created and authored Queer Nation: The Online Gay Comic. Based in New York City, he is on the board of directors for NYC Audubon.