We are over the moon to share that Chrysti M. Smith, Chrysti the Wordsmith, will be the keynote at ASPEN’s Annual Community Event. Smith has been reading and collecting dictionaries for decades. As host of her radio series, Chrysti the Wordsmith, she shares the stories she teases from the pages of her myriad dictionaries and word books. She won the Montana Governor’s Humanities Award in 2021 after 31 years of radio production. We can’t think of anyone better to talk about how and why words matter now more than ever.

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