Journalist Deborah Nelson will discuss her Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporting this thursday night at 7 in Village Hall. The talk is provided at no charge and is open to the public.

Nelson was the co-winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for reporting abuses on HUD’s Native American housing program for the Seattle Times. She worked on two other Pulitzer-winning projects, the deadly accident record of the Harrier jump jet (for the Las Angeles Times) and the children who died while in Washington, D.C.’s, child welfare system.

She is the author of “The War Behind Me: Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth about U.S. War Crimes.” The book is based on a declassified army archive and interviews with suspects, whistleblowers, survivors, former commanders, investigators and Pentagon officials.

Nelson has worked at numerous newspapers during her 30-years career, including the Washington Post, Seattle Times, Chicago Sun-Times and Los Angeles Times. She opted to leave the newspaper business in 2006 to take a faculty position at the University of Maryland’s Merrill College of Journalism. She hopes to retool journalism education and prepare the next generation of journalists in both traditional and emerging reporting techniques