Understanding US power, politics and patriarchy in the aftermath of the Epstein files
Thu 16 April 2026
12:30
Free
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This candid conversation between Amy Wallace, co-author with Virginia Roberts Giuffre of her autobiography Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, and Eliza Anyangwe, editor-in-chief of global women-focused newsroom Fuller, will consider the political and cultural context in which the 2025 best-seller was published. The conversation will explore Wallace’s role in co-authoring the book and her reflections on what the political manoeuvering around the Epstein files and Ghislaine Maxwell reveal about power, politics and patriarchy in the US today.
We will also talk about the work of keeping survivors’ stories front and center even and about the wider, deeper societal issues so rarely discussed as media interest so regularly gravitates towards the powerful individuals accused and not to the structural problems Giuffre’s story captures so painfully, such as class, criminal justice, pervasive sexual violence and the exploitation and trafficking of girls and vulnerable young women.
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Eliza Anyangwe
Eliza Anyangwe is Managing Editor of CNN’s multi-award-winning gender inequality reporting team As Equals, and co-founder of The Gender Beat, a collaborative project to promote nuanced, impactful gender journalism and build a supportive community for those who produce it, particularly in the Majority World. Before joining CNN in February 2021, she was Managing Editor of The Correspondent, a platform for constructive, member-funded, ad-free journalism. Eliza has spoken about gender, journalism or international development on stages from SXSW to TED Global; has written for Open Democracy, Al Jazeera and the FT, and has appeared on Newsnight, BBC World Service, PRI’s The World and Our Body Politic, among others. She is a contributing author to Africa’s Media Image in the 21st Century, published by Routledge.
Amy Wallace
Amy Wallace is a California-based writer who splits her time between books and magazines. Her magazine work has appeared in GQ, Wired, The New Yorker, New York, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Details, The Nation, the New York Times Magazine, Elle, and other national publications. Two of her profiles – Hollywood’s Information Man (Los Angeles, 2001) and Walking Time Bomb (New York, 2019) – have been nominated for a National Magazine Award. She has also collaborated on three books. Most recently, she worked with Virginia Roberts Giuffre on her autobiography Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice (Knopf, 2025), which was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. In 2021, Simon & Schuster published Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company, by Jeff Immelt, the former CEO of General Electric. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (Random House, 2014), with Ed Catmull, then the president of Pixar Animation and Disney Animation, was also a New York Times bestseller. Wallace began her career as an assistant to New York Times columnist James Reston. She spent two years at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution covering prisons and death row; next she went to the Los Angeles Times. Since then, Wallace has been a correspondent at GQ, an editor-at-large at Los Angeles magazine, and a monthly columnist on creativity and innovation (Prototype) for the New York Times Sunday Business section. She also served as a senior writer at Conde Nast Portfolio. She spent 11 years at the Los Angeles Times as a reporter covering state politics, higher education, and the entertainment industry. During that period, she shared in two staff-wide Pulitzer Prizes: in 1992, for coverage of the Los Angeles riots, and in 1994, for coverage of the Northridge earthquake. Later, she became the Times’ deputy business editor over entertainment and technology coverage. For more information on Amy, see the 6 March 2026 Guardian article entitled Virginia Giuffre’s ‘invisible ghostwriter’ on the Epstein survivor’s legacy: ‘She wanted to name all of them. They deserve to be named’.
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