Liza Donnelly [Livestream]
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About the speaker
Welcome Liza Donnelly to The Morgan Library & Museum Stage!
Liza Donnelly is a writer and cartoonist for The New Yorker Magazine, where she has been drawing cartoons and writing about culture and politics for forty years. She has been a contributor to CBS News and CNN, creating political cartoons and animation, as well as live-drawing special cultural and political events. Donnelly writes and draws for The New York Times and CNN Opinion pages, The Washington Post, Medium. She publishes a daily newsletter of writing and drawings called Seeing Things on Substack.
Donnelly’s TED talk was translated into 42 languages and viewed over 1.5 million times.
Donnelly was the first cartoonist to be granted access on location to live draw the Academy Awards. Both on location and remotely, she covered the DNC, Inauguration, presidential debates, State of The Union, Trump trials, election returns, the Emmys, the Golden Globes, the Grammys, the BET Awards, the Tonys.
Donnelly is the author/editor of eighteen books for adults and children, most notably Very Funny Ladies, a history of women cartoonists of The New Yorker.
Donnelly is currently producing and directing a documentary called Women Laughing, based on her book Very Funny Ladies, to premier in 2025.
🎵 Performance by Gabbie McGee
With two independent albums (Certified Soul, Mississippi's Daughter) under her belt, BMI Independent Songwriters Recognition for her song Mississippi's Daughter, The 2014 Belk Modern Southern Music Award, the 2014 Mississippi Arts Council Artist of the Year Award, and featured appearances in the 2015 Emmy Award-winning HBO feature film Bessie and the 2016 Academy Award-nominated Hidden Figures, Gabbie McGee is rapidly becoming a recognizable face and name in the entertainment industry. Known for her powerful vocals and heart-gripping lyrics, Gabbie has also made her mark behind the scenes as a music composer, contributing original music to Season 6 of TV ONEs Rickey Smiley For Real and writing, producing, and performing the theme song Turn on the Lights for the 2020 remake of Avenging Angels, directed by Ilunga Adell.
In 2025, Gabbie is piloting her latest venture, Jazz Lives in the Library, an innovative cultural preservation and education initiative designed to celebrate the legacy of jazz through live performance, literacy, and community engagement.
Local partners
Global Partner — Adobe
Adobe empowers everyone, everywhere to imagine, create, and bring any digital experience to life. From creators and students to small businesses, global enterprises, and nonprofit organizations — customers choose Adobe products to ideate, collaborate, be more productive, drive business growth, and build remarkable experiences.
Global Patron — Harnisch Foundation
Harnisch Foundation believes in a fairer world that works better for everyone, with special attention on gender and racial equity.
Local Partner — Harvest
Harvest is a web-based time tracking and invoicing application relied on by thousands of people around the world, from freelancers to small businesses to departments of Fortune 500 companies. Harvest founders Danny Wen and Shawn Liu had searched for tools to help their agency scale with more efficient methods to track time and send invoices. Unable to find one, they invested their own time, energy, and money into creating what they knew was a better way to run the business—and Harvest was born.
Local Partner — MPB
MPB transforms the way that people buy, sell and trade photo and video gear. As the largest global platform for used photography and videography equipment, MPB is a destination for everyone, whether you’ve just discovered your passion for visual storytelling or you’re already a pro.
Founded by Matt Barker in 2011, MPB has always been committed to making gear more accessible and affordable, and helping to visualize a more sustainable future. MPB recirculates more than 485,000 used products every year, extending the life and creative potential of photo and video equipment for creators around the world.
Headquartered in the creative communities of Brooklyn, Brighton and Berlin, the MPB team includes trained camera experts and seasoned photographers and videographers who bring their passion to work every day to deliver outstanding service.
Venue Partner — Morgan Library & Museum
Morgan Library & Museum is a museum and independent research library located in the heart of New York City. Through exhibitions, collections, and programs, the Morgan celebrates human creativity from 4000 BCE to the present, with the conviction that meaningful engagement with art, literature, music, and history enriches lives and deepens understanding. Learn more about the Morgan’s upcoming exhibitions and programs and subscribe to the e-newsletter.
