Jan 20
Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man’s Search for Home, with Jonathan Capehart '89
Join fellow Carls in the Seattle area for
Yet Here I Am:
Lessons from a Black Man’s Search for Home
a conversation with Jonathan Capehart '89
and Lori Matsukawa
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Times:
5:30 p.m.: Join host Kate Tollefson '99 at the Hotel Sorrento bar before the event for a beverage and conversation
6:30 p.m.: Walk a short distance to The Wyncote NW Forum
7:30 p.m.: Event begins
Locations:
Hotel Sorrento
900 Madison St,
Seattle, WA 98104
The Wyncote NW Forum, Town Hall Seattle
1119 8th Ave (Entrance off Seneca St.)
Seattle, WA 98101
In addition, a virtual, live-stream option is available through the ticket website below.
Cost:
$10-$35 sliding fee. Tickets can be purchased on the Town Hall Seattle website. Purchase your own beverages and food at Hotel Sorrento.
MSNBC anchor Jonathan Capehart '89 is one of the most recognizable faces in cable news. But long before that success, Capehart spent his boyhood growing up without his father, shuttling back and forth between New Jersey and rural Severn, North Carolina, and contemplating the complexities of race and identity as they shifted around him. It was never easy bridging two worlds; whether being told he was too smart or not smart enough, too Black or not Black enough, Capehart struggled to find his place. Then, an internship at The Today Show altered the course of his life, bringing him one step closer to his dream.
Capehart takes us along that journey, from his years at Carleton, where he learns to embrace his identity as a gay Black man surrounded by a likeminded community; to his decision to come out to his family, risking rejection; and finally to his move to New York City, where time and again he stumbles and picks himself up as he blazes a path to become the familiar face in news we know today.
Jonathan Capehart '89 is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who co-hosts the morning edition of “The Weekend” and the NYT bestselling author of Yet Here I Am: Lessons from A Black Man’s Search for Home, published in May 2025. From 2020 until 2025, he was the anchor of The Saturday/Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart. At PBS, Capehart serves as a political analyst on PBS News Hour and is featured on the popular Friday segment Brooks and Capehart.