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Hillary Clinton To Speak at Lincoln Center Women's Summit Next Week

By Nicole Levy | March 29, 2017 11:17am
 Hillary Clinton speaks at Industry City on April 9, 2015.
Hillary Clinton speaks at Industry City on April 9, 2015.
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LINCOLN SQUARE — Hillary Clinton is set to take the stage at Lincoln Center a little more than a week after delivering her most political speech since the election.

The 2016 presidential candidate will appear at Tina Brown's annual "Women in the World" summit at Lincoln Center's David Koch Theater on April 6. Clinton will be interviewed by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, according to agenda for the three-day conference.

Speaking at a diversity conference in San Francisco Tuesday, the former Secretary of State slammed the Republican party's attempt at replacing Obamacare as a "disastrous bill" and admonished the Trump administration for filling only two of 24 cabinet seats with women. 

Clinton also addressed a controversial moment from earlier that day at a White House news conference, when Press Secretary Sean Spicer twice reprimanded journalist April Ryan for shaking her head at him.

"April Ryan, a respected journalist with unrivaled integrity, was doing her job just this afternoon in the White House press room when she was patronized and cut off trying to ask a question," Clinton said. 

"Too many women, especially women of color, have had a lifetime of practice taking precisely these kinds of indignity in stride," she continued. "But why should we have to?"

The "Women in the World" summit, which Brown launched in 2010 as part of her new media-events company, presents a lineup of "powerful new female role models whose personal stories illuminate the most pressing international issues," according to its website.

Tickets for the April 6 event are already sold out, but the talks will be live-streamed here